Logan and Albert Conservation Association
SEQ environment groups warn of the looming threat to Moreton Bay from the sheer scale of proposed urban development throughout the region. Over a decades worth of achievements could be undone if the massive new unsustainable urban development throughout SEQ is allowed to occur with out having to fully consider and put in place measures to avoid impacts to waterways.
Large-scale catchment wide rehabilitation projects and the adoption of world's best development standards in the vicinity of one billion dollars needs to be invested to repair catchment degradation throughout the region; otherwise the ecological health of Moreton Bay is likely to continue to decline overtime.
Another F for fail for the Logan River Estuary surely should mean that all levels of government should be aware of the damage our present human activites is causing and business as usual - despite the rhetoric - will not reverse the degradation.The southern Moreton Bay Ramsar site is also in poor health.
'The 2010 report card shows the condition of the Albert and Logan estuaries remain in poor condition, despite over ten years of hard work to improve their ecological health. The poor estuary health is caused by high nutrient and sediment levels, which is continued to be caused by existing inappropriate urban and industrial development throughout the catchment. Impacts to waterways are set to escalate if a business as usual approach is taken to the massive urban development planned for our part of the region.
When will the political will change to work towards a healthy catchment and ecosystem whose value for longterm human survival is essential. Without a healthy ecosystem [planet] we will not have a healthy sustainable lifestyle.
Queensland Conservation Association released their comment in this media release.
QCC_healthywaterwaysreportcard20oct.doc Bytes 01/01/1970, 10:00
23 October 2010 - great day for conservation
Save Bahrs Scrub Alliance launch of booklet Endangered, Vulnerable and Near Threatened Flora of Bahrs Scrub
Saturday, October 23, 2010 Beenleigh Bowls Club Hanover St Beenleigh
11:00am – 12:00pm
Download your invitation here. 
INVITATION_SBSA_FLORA_BOOKLET_LAUNCH.pdf
More information is available at http://www.bahrsscrub.org.au/
Veto fundraiser supper dance 7-11 pm
49-65 Kenny Rd Chambers Flat / Logan Village Community Hall
Tickets phone Lil 38035541 or Mary 38033320 or at the door ($10 single family $30)
See what is happening at www.veto.org.au
SURVEYS or CENSUS COUNTS for two local bird species - Sunday 31 October 2010
Glossy Black Cockatoo and Australian White Ibis.
If you want to take part in the Glossy Black-Cockatoo Birding Day check on the Conservancy website here.
Source: Guy Castley
As the Glossy Black Cockatoo may be confused by another black bird, identification workshops are being held for those interested in helping. The Conservancy website has great identification tools as well. Please register at site linked above if you can help.
The Australian White Ibis is a protected native species that plays an important role in their natural wetland habitat. However, drought and inland water management issues have contributed to the White Ibis shifting to urban areas where they have found plentiful food, particularly at waste landfills. As a result, urban White Ibis populations have exploded over the last two decades. They are now often perceived as a 'pest' because of their nuisance value, risk to aviation safety, and impact on biodiversity.
Your participation in this survey will aid the long term conservation and effective management of Australian White Ibis by providing a better understanding of their distribution and abundance throughout Australia. Download a flyer here.Salisbury to Beaudesert Rail Corridor Study
The Department of Transport and Main Roads has commenced the Salisbury to Beaudesert Rail Corridor Study and public consultation is now underway. According to Queensland Transport, public consultation is an important part of this study and they want our feedback on the Review of Environmental Factors. This report is based on a desktop investigation, and includes information on the proposed rail alignment and station locations, and how the alignment has been identified. The executive summary states that
It is anticipated that development of the passenger rail line would likely be implemented instages and only commence after 2026 subject to the realisation of projected passenger demand in future growth areas and funding decisions of the Queensland Government. Prior to delivery of a passenger rail line, interim public transport solutions would beimplemented to service emerging communities in the study area.
You are invited to provide your feedback up to 29 October 2010
This tmr website provides links to newsletters,timelines, maps, Review of environmental factors (REF) report, and a feedback form. The study team held various community information displays. To be kept up to date and receive updates as they become available contact the Corridor Study team by Email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
You can support the Queensland government's new vision to make 80 per cent of North Stradbroke Island (NSI) national park 
Drawing by Jennie Truman
by sending a short simple email.
We must let the State government know urgently there is wide support for a national park on North Stradbroke Island and for ending mining. If you have already sent in a submission, we're asking you to send another and to ask your colleagues, friends and family to write as well. Maybe even print out letters and ask people to sign them?
According to the Queensland Government's website http://www.derm.qld.gov.au/stradbroke/index.html Queensland Government is committed to North Stradbroke Island becoming a vibrant sustainable community of traditional owners, residents and visitors; capitalising and safeguarding the natural landscape values of the island. By the end of 2011 more than half of the island will be national park.
Such a vision would provide a future economic base for the North Stradbroke Island community and deliver on the government's commitment to sustainable growth and development.
EVERY SUBMISSION COUNTS AND CAN SIMPLY SAY
I want to register my support for the Queensland government's new vision to make 80 per cent of North Stradbroke Island (NSI) national park.
* The island will be a great national park, so close to Brisbane.
* Protect all its rich diversity of flora and fauna, including koalas.
* Gazette as much national park as possible this term ofgovernment (more than 56 per cent).
* Make remaining untouched or lightly disturbed land national park before it's mined, not after.
* End mining as soon as possible: it's had 60 years, and Stradbroke cannot withstand any more destruction.
* Start the island's economic transition now to low-impact, nature-based tourism.
* Ensure mine workers and their families are given due consideration as the mines close.
* Implement joint management of the national park with the island's traditional owners.
Include your name and contact details - and remember: interstate and overseas submissions are valid.
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Visit theStradbroke Island Management Organisation website to read about the great work that community group is doing.
Logan and Albert Conservation Association aka LACA president, Anne Page, is spending her holidays visiting residents in the areas Murnuben Greenbank North Maclean. She is doing this to collect the much needed data about wildlife or fauna presently living in these treed or vegetated areas.
She will leave a letter if residents are not at home when she visits. Why you may ask does one volunteer to talk to walk around these areas in the hope of gathering local residents' sightings of native animals seen on properties in these areas?
Anne intends to start on the southern side of Stoney Camp Rd and do the perimeter properties around the large farm at Greenbank east of Teviot Rd first. Then she will go North Maclean area and work through properties adjacent to Wearings Reserve in Munruben . Each interview will probably take a minimum of 30 mins (as per experience) . She hopes to do as many as she has time for in the next 2 weeks and then keep going after the school holidays.
Energex Logan River to Jimboomba Protest Rally at Parliament - Thursday 7 October 2010
Please consider supporting the action described here and organized by Paul Casbolt on behalf of VETO (Veto Energex Towers Organisation) that is protesting against the upgrade and new easement for a 110 Kv line to cross the Logan River 5 times and run south along Camp Cable Rd.
This proposed route will clear 42.5 hectares of koala habitat which also provides valuable habitat for other threatened species in the area eg quolls, green thighed frog, wallum froglet , glossy black cockatoos and 4 species of gliders (greater, squirrel, sugar, feathertail) that we know about from community surveys.
LACA has been assisting VETO for the past 2 years and has provided formal submissions to all rounds of community consultation (please see the LACA or VETO websites for copies of LACA and VETO submissions outlining major concerns). President Anne Page has attended fortnightly meetings over this time along with many other concerned members from the Logan River and Camp Cable Rd communities.
There are many reasons why the community should be objecting to such projects (see LACA submission ) in our local area and across Queensland. If you are able to attend this peaceful rally please RSVP to Paul ph 3200 5210 (see flyer contacts). There will be a coach bus to pick people up from Logan Village Community Centre at 10 am and will return there around 1.30 pm (cost $8 per person please to cover bus hire) .
The Hon. Margaret Keech has already agreed to meet the group and take receipt of the petition outside Parliament House.
This joint Rally with other Community Groups (also dissatisfied with the Energex process) may be our best chance to influence State Politicians as it is likely that Minister Stephen Robertson will make a decision on the Loganlea to Jimboomba 110kV Sub Transmission Line Community Infrastructure Designation in December.We hope to get wider media interest and support by joining with the Sunshine Coast group and the STOP group from the Gold Coast.
This will be a civil, peaceful protest and children are welcome as this is for their future (unfortunately Parliament does not sit during school holidays).
The Logan and Albert Conservation Association (LACA) completely opposes the proposed new 110 KV Energex sub transmission line from Loganlea to Jimboomba. We believe the proposed network upgrade from Loganlea to Jimboomba does not balance social, environmental and economic considerations as claimed in the Final IAR. LACA shares the concerns of the wider community about the negative impacts on the community as well as the negative impacts on the natural environment and wildlife. Koalas have been historically recorded in this region and continue to survive here. The Final IAR confirms that this proposal will result in a loss of habitat, habitat connectivity and biodiversity, especially in the southern section of this proposed network upgrade along Camp Cable Rd and Waterford Tamborine Rd. Energex is intending to fragment habitat connectivity within 3 bioregional corridors
Read our submissions here.
Energex_Loganlea_to_Jimboomba_July_2010_LACA.pdf
and
Griffith University Logan campus auditorium 13 September 2010 hosted the first Brisbane Institute forum to be held in Logan. Continuing the series of population growth forums, audience and speakers looked at the opportunities and challenges for Logan, one of two regions proposed to absorb some of the people moving to Queensland's south east corner. According to the moderator, The Courier-Mail's Anna Reynolds,who hosted an absorbing discussion on the issues, opportunities and challenges of managing Queensland's population growth - especially in Logan's Flagstone and Yarrabilba communities, this forom was the best attended - with over 200 residents - current residents who are concerned that any growth in Logan is managed in a more ecologically stainable manner.
Can Logan take the load?
Logan Mayor Pam Parker, Urban Land Development Authority CEO Paul Eagles, RPS Chairman Jim McKnoulty, local business leader Kerry Armstrong and Griffith University planning professor Brendan Gleeson shared their perspectives, followed by a lively debate covering employment opportunities, infrastructure, household affordability and community cohesion.
The answer? Yes, Logan can take the load... but not without significant government investment and much, much more community consultation and involvement!
Some attendees may not agree with this published outcome! What is the cost of loosing 32% of Logan's green space? as Mayor Pam Parker espoused we would still have 50% green - compared with our current 18% urban. These are percentages that require further investigations?
Satellite cities and master planned communities can't be just residential developments with a few shops. They need to have fully functioning CBDs, and governments need to commit to providing schools and health facilities years before these cities reach full capacity. They also need to be fully self-sufficient and bring together the very best in business, information and communication technology, education, health, retail and entertainment as well as residential.
Greater Springfield is well on its way to becoming a city of the future which is focused on the integrated master planning principle of living, working, playing and learning in one healthy, sustainable community. Master planned communities need robust public transport, roads, health and education facilities, sewerage, stormwater management and open space systems. But they will also be characterised by the quality, accessibility, reliability and security of their technology platform.
Read the article online in the August edition of the Brisbane Institute.
Raynuha Sinnathamby Deputy Managing Director of Springfield Land Corporation authored this article. Whatever happens there must be alternatives to more roads and more cars. In the areas proposed for development there is currently no public transport and state government has not really been listening. Rail in 2026 is not helpful for current residents and any who come early to the proproposed satellite cities.