A Work that Reconnects workshop at the Chillingham Community Centre on the 23rd of May Time: 8.30am-4.30pm. “We are living through difficult times, witnessing immense growing social injustices and the sixth mass extinction of life on Earth. Many of us feel called to act, and while political engagement is crucial, many are also asking, how do we…
TSC Towards Zero Waste Strategy – Have Your Say
Tweed Shire Council Towards Zero Waste Strategy is on exhibition until Wednesday 28 April. The Towards Zero Waste Strategy that aims to guide Council on future actions and targets towards zero waste practices. To view the details, and to have your say about it please visit www.yoursaytweed.com.au/zerowaste at the TSC website.
The Caldera/Greens planned meeting regarding the SEPP/LLS situation is being rescheduled, …
Caldera Environment Centre & Tweed Greens Invite representatives from Tweed based environmental and Koala groups and individuals to discussion of the SEPP 2021 and LLS Amendment Act, with ! Cate Faehrmann MLC NSW Greens, ! Cr Katie Milne, ! Dailan Pugh (NEFA). “What actions can the community take to rectify the detrimental changes to policy and legislation by the NSW…
The SEPP 2021 Explained
State Environmental Planning Policy (SEPP) (Koala habitat Protection) 2021, in the Ministers words: 1. SEPP21 Gets land zoned for primary production or forestry out of the SEPP “Land zoned for primary production or forestry in regional NSW will not be subject to the new SEPP.” 2. SEPP21 Gets the Koala-Habitat-Protection-Laws out of the SEPP “Koala…
To STOP SEPP 20 and #saveourkoalas here is an example of what to say and where to facebook, @, email and say it to 5 politicians
Here is a (1) an example text, (2) a list of contact details (fb,@,eMail,ph) for 5 key office holding politicians, and (3) a list of key points to use. Example text written by Nola Firth I am writing to register my extreme outrage and distress at the SEPP 21 deal done by your government at the…
D Day for Koalas
Dailan Pugh, North East Forest Alliance. It is D Day in the Koala Wars, this is the day we need to turn around Koala’s extinction trajectory and begin their recovery. First we need to urgently identify where their core habitat is and then we need to protect it, to save Koalas we need to stop…
Australian Native Forests Are To Be Used As Furnace Fuel For European Electricity
Australian Native Forests have been London Futures Contract-ed to be cut down … to be industrially fed into European Furnaces to replace coal to boil water to turn turbines to make electricity to be used momentarily then it is gone. ‘Somehow’, The European Union have legaly declared that burning Native Forests as coal-replacement fuel for electricity…
Submission – ‘Nightcap on Minjungbul’ (DA21/0010) Caldera Environment Centre
Submission opposing DA21/0010 ‘Nightcap on Minjungbul’. A concept development application (DA) was lodged with Tweed Shire Council on 14 January 2021 over land at 2924, 2956, 2984 and 3222 Kyogle Road, Kunghur & Mount Burrell, hereafter referred to as “the site”. The application seeks approval for: Integrated Development – staged concept development application under s4.22 of…
Make a submission to TSC regarding DA21/0010 Nightcap on Minjungbal, before 24th March.
NRG sponsored a public meeting on Sunday, 14 March, to air information and views on (Tweed Shire) DA21/0010 for a proposed development known as Nightcap on Minjungbal, located off Kyogle Road between Mount Burrell and Kunghur. Turnout for the meeting was good, and much information was shared. This message is to let you know that…
Local Koala Protest – National Day of Action
MEDIA RELEASENorthern Rivers Guardians Inc. Koala advocates demand Koala habitat protection The clouds parted and the sun was shining on koala advocates who gathered at Knox Park in Murwillumbah on Saturday, for the Northern Rivers Guardians (NRG) hosted #SaveOurKoalas Day of Action. The Murwillumbah event was one of many similar public gatherings scheduled to be held across…
NEFA: Forest Media
NEFA: Forest Media Koalas continue to be the key issue. Kean came under attack from the ALP and the right-wing shock-jocks when it was revealed that he had been strongly advised not to set a target for Koalas before he announced he was going to double their populations. He thought it was good politics. His…
Bob Brown Foundation: UPDATE 3: Help take the Great Forest Case to the High Court
From the Bob Brown Foundation: “We have important, exciting news. Today, we made an application to appeal the Great Forest Case to the High Court. While we are not guaranteed a High Court hearing, we believe this case is of major public importance, dealing with a matter of national environmental significance, and deserves to be…
Friends of the Koala, Cudgen Nature Reserve, Caldera Environment Centre Representation to the Member for Tweed, the Hon. Geoff Provest, MP
Conserving and recovering Tweed’s koala populations The issues on which we seek representation: 1. Local Land Services Amendment (Miscellaneous) Bill 2020 – Adverse impact of Private Native Forestry (PNF) Amendments and ‘Allowable Activity Land’ The amendments to the discredited Local Land Services Amendment (Miscellaneous) Bill 2020 not only sought to double the duration for PNF…
North East Forest Alliance Meeting with Geoff Provest
NEFA considers it reprehensible that the NSW Government have refused to approve Tweed Shire Council’s Koala Plan of Management for the past 6 years because they wanted it weakened, even though two Government agencies helped draft it. The National’s Local Land Services Amendment (Miscellaneous) Bill sought to limit accreditation of Koala Plans of Management under…
Bob Brown Foundation: UPDATE 2: “The judgment was against us as the Federal Court decided that the purpose of the RFA Act was not to protect the environment.”
The Bob Brown Foundation campaign and court action to end native forest logging (!), a monumental legal case challenging the regulation of native forest logging. The Great Forest Case is the best chance in a generation of ending native forest logging. UPDATE 1: The Great Forest Case hearings were on 2nd and 3rd of December! The Bob…
Native Forests ARE NOT ‘Biofuel’ replacement for coal.
Here and now, at The Time of The Collapse Of The Ecology, they are doubling down on stupid. They are industrially feeding our native forests into furnaces, as a replacement for coal, to make electricity. They have changed the laws to take away the tree protections. They have made laws which say that burning forests…
NEFA: Forest Media Review
Forest Media Review from the North East Forest Alliance (NEFA) Burning forests for electricity not on: The Nambucca Guardian had an in-depth story on biomass (with a focus on Way Way, Newry, Tarkeeth, and Redbank) (citing Michael Jones, Susie Russell, Dailan Pugh). https://www.nambuccaguardian.com.au/story/7118714/will-nambuccas-forests-be-burnt-for-electricity/ … A group of over 500 international scientists have written to…
EPBC Act Review Condems EPBC Act
“… the EPBC Act does not position the Commonwealth to protect the environment, … it is not fit to manage current or future environmental challenges.” “Australia’s natural environment and iconic places are in an overall state of decline and are under increasing threat. The current environmental trajectory is unsustainable. “The EPBC Act is ineffective. It…
CEC Movie Club: The Bob Brown Foundation fight to rescue what is left of the Tasmanian and Australian Native Forests, multiple short videos:
https://m.facebook.com/pg/Bob.Brown.Foundation/videos/?ref=page_internal
The government (do nothing) response to the Koala Habitat Inquiry
The Wollumbin Caldera
The Wollumbin Caldera is one of the three top biodiversity hotspots in Australia. It covers an area of approximately 1500 sq km and supports around 1250 types of plants. The Caldera includes a high diversity of ecosystem types because it is in an area where temperate and sub-tropical bio-geographic areas, both terrestrial and marine, converge.…
End the subsidies that destroy our forests
NCC: “… we are subsidising the destruction of our remaining native forests. Over the past seven years, we have propped up the uneconomic native forests logging industry to the tune of $79 million.” Taxpayer handouts to destroy the ecology. “End subsidised and unprofitable logging of our public state forests.” Read the full report here. The NCC…
CEC Movie Club: Rob Kooyman – Gondwana, Northern NSW
Rob Kooyman, forest ecologist of note, traces the history of the ancient forests of Gondwana, until now, bringing the focus to the forests here, the forests of Northern NSW. The new 29 min film by Frontier Films (David Bradbury). Proudly presented here in association with the The Caldera Environment Centre. About Rob Kooyman … protected…
UN Secretary General: “Humanity is waging war on nature. This is suicidal.”
“Humanity is waging war on nature. This is suicidal. Biodiversity is collapsing. Ecosystems are disappearing before our eyes. Human activities are at the root of our descent toward chaos.” He listed the human-inflicted wounds on the natural world: the spread of deserts; wetlands lost; forests cut down; oceans overfished and choked with plastic; dying coral…
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The NSW Govt. Inquiry Report: ‘Koala Populations and Habitat in New South Wales’
The need to stop logging in public native forests did not receive majority support from committee members and is therefore not a recommendation in the report. The government is required to respond to the recommendations of the report within six months. A highlighted copy of the report is attached below, and is available also on…
**Newsflash** – HELP PREVENT THE RETURN of the ‘Kill Koala Bill’
Have your say in this quick online submissionbefore the deadline this Friday February 5th! The Nature Conservation Council of NSW is calling for help to prevent the return of the governments “Kill Koala Bill” which is currently being reviewed by a parliamentary committee. We need to keep the government under pressure over koalas so they ditch…
CEC Movie Club: Forest Defenders – The Fight to Protect Tasmania’s Native Forests
Forest Defenders: The Fight to Protect Tasmania’s Native Forests, takes you straight to where ordinary people are stepping up to protect some of the most incredible forests in the world from the archaic practice of native forest logging. Made entirely by those involved in the fight, this film has a simple aim: To inspire you…
North-East NSW Native Forests will fuel the Redbank Ex-Coal-Fired Power Station, making it one of world’s ten biggest biomass power plants.
From NEFA [North East Forest Alliance]: Hunter Energy is currently seeking expressions of interest for timber from across north-east NSW to fuel their ex-coal Redbank Power Station, with plans to restart the facility in mid 2021 fed by native forests to make it one of world’s ten biggest biomass power plants. Estimates are that just…
NEFA Weekly Forest News: Forest Media 6
From NEFA [North East Forest Alliance]: We did well with our Kill the Bill demonstrations, with good stories on Prime and NBN, though the National Party’s standard response is that we are ignorant and misguided. Bangalow Koalas also organised a successful event with 50 kids from the Byron Community Primary School. The hypocrisy of Gladys…