Relief at rejection
Great joy and relief for the community comes with the unanimous rejection of the Frogs Hollow Flight School development by the SJRPP. Great thanks must go to Mayor Kristy McBain, the councillors and the hardworking, patient council staff that processed the development application.
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It is predictable that the developer would threaten to pursue this through the Land and Environment Court. Like a small dog with a bone, they appear unable to accept the community rejection of their ill-conceived development. The Land and Environment Court is a very expensive and protracted process that would drag on for a few years. Add that numerous appeals can be made against decisions of the Land and Environment Court and the community also has and will exercise that right.
The community is in this for the long haul, we are resourceful, united and very committed. Even in the very unlikely event that the court would overturn the decision of the SJRPP it would be far from over and the land-owner is very unlikely to see a resolve to the sale of his land any time in the next few years, if at all.
Steve Jackson, Bega
Ring road re-addressed
Traffic congestion at Tathra Wharf is a problem that needs to be addressed. It is a problem that is only going to increase with population and tourism to our area.
Andrew Constance our local MP was quoted in the Bega District News in September 2008 that: “It is a great shame that the road was let go in the first place. Tathra Wharf is a tourism icon and a shame that more visitors can't access it due to the lack of infrastructure to support tourist coaches. If government was to invest taxpayer dollars in this road then the return would be very significant for Tathra.”
If you would like to see the reconstruction of a one-way ring road please show your support and sign the petition boards placed at the wharf, post office, Bendy Kates, both caravan parks and the bowling club. The response so far has been very favourable.
Noel Gorman, Tathra
Wind farm worries
Wind farm developers, CWP and Akuo's applications to inflict taller turbines to the Monaro and Brown Mountain landscape and inhabitants are concerning, not just because of their overwhelming and intimidating size.
They risk increasing the noise hazards, from both audible and ILFN (Infra and Low Frequency Noise), which will render many nearby homes uninhabitable.
Over the last 10 years, considerable authoritative, professional acoustic research has been undertaken worldwide (including Steven Cooper, Henrik Møller/Christian Pedersen). The hazards from ILFN have been found to increase with the size of wind turbines – the taller the turbine, the further the intensity and travel of ILFN.
Already there's an enormous legacy of abandoned homes in the wake of industrial wind turbines, all over the world. The people who are driven to abandon their homes are rarely compensated. This is not a fair distribution of the cost of an insatiable world appetite for energy.
If it is so imperative to pincushion our planet with wind turbines, at least mandate a minimum of 3km setbacks from turbines to homes, and give fair compensation for those adversely affected. Or conversely, park wind turbines where their noise will be masked by noise already generated, within the perimeters of large towns and cities, directly available to the folk who demand this wind derived power the most.
As wind farms continue to roll out, we risk driving not only people from an injurious precinct, but animals, insects, birds, bats (drops in air pressure from wind turbines cause bats' lungs to rupture and they die), ending up with barren uninhabitable places, places where we need to grow food, where we need to preserve ecological integrity.