Category: Developers

Limpinwood logging – Private Native Forestry – Hewittville Pty. Ltd.

Logging on a property of high ecological significance at Limpinwood is causing grave concerns for locals and all people who care about native wildlife, habitat for rare and threatened species, cultural heritage, and corridor connectivity to World Heritage Areas.

Unauthorised works happened on this property in 2014.  Read the back story.

On 7 September 2017 Council resolved to call on the state government to investigate the logging activities on the property and to consider revoking the Private Native Forestry licence.  Memo to Mayor.  Council meeting minutes.

Echo article 13 September  Limpinwood logging destroying koala habitat

Echo article 14 September  EPA stops logging at Limpinwood for inspection read more

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Keep speaking out against Adani

A message from GetUp..

Since we last spoke, we’ve had two huge wins against Adani. The momentum is palpable.

First, after almost 8,000 of you chipped in to run a huge marginal seats campaign, another Coalition MP has publicly defied Turnbull over the $1 billion dollar Adani loan. 

The campaign is now in full swing, with newspaper ads, billboards and rallies saturating key marginal electorates. If we can get more MPs to speak out, this could become a full backbench revolt.

Then, on Friday, Westpac refused to finance Adani!

That leaves Adani with no financial backers. Not one. Australian banks won’t touch it. International banks won’t touch it. Adani’s mine is so politically toxic that 17 banks across the world have refused to fund it. The only person left who thinks it’s a good idea is Malcolm Turnbull. read more

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Limpinwood revisited: History repeats

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LIMPINWOOD REVISITED: 

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Tweed planners back off prosecuting over illegal works 

Tweed Shire Council Chief Planner Vince Connell has recommended that council not proceed with the prosecution of the developer whose unauthorised land clearing caused a major pollution event at Hopping Dick Creek, Limpinwood. read more

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Tweed developer to face NSW Land and Environment Court

ORIGINAL LINK: http://calderaenvironmentcentre.org/?p=1998

***Update: Unauthorised works Boorman’s Rd, Limpinwood ***

DEVELOPER TO FACE NSW LAND AND ENVIRONMENT COURT

At the last Tweed Shire Council Planning Committee meeting, it was recommended that:

1. Issues a Notice of Direction to take clean-up action under Section 91 of the Environment Operations Act 1997, to the owner of the site, to undertake remediation works on the adjoining property Lot 2 DP 815182 and adjoining parts of Hopping Dicks Creek; and

2. Instructs Council’s solicitors to commence Class 5 proceedings in the NSW Land and Environment Court action in respect of the failure by the site owner to gain development consent for certain works on the Crown Road Reserve that runs through Lots 127 and 128 DP 755724 under the Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979. read more

Limpinwood Pollution Event Linked to Earthworks, Land Clearing

On the 18th of April 2014, members of the Caldera Environment Centre attended a location at Boormans Rd Limpinwood, identified as Lot 127, DP 755724, to investigate allegations of unauthorised earthworks and land clearing.

The impetus for this investigation was a significant flood event that resulted in a massive industrial debris and sediment load entering into the pristine Hopping Dicks Creek and a well-known frog and platypus habitat.

The sediment plume of red soil was observed as far downstream as the Oxley River Bridge, approximately 15km from the Limpinwood site.

The development site is part of a newly subdivided property which has just recently been put on the market, known as Bryant Estate. read more

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