EDITORIAL Our organisation suffered a huge loss last September when our founder and beloved leader, Hop.e Hopkins, left this mortal coil. We would not exist without him, and his ethical, calm, determined commitment to our cause ensured we stayed largely free from sabotage and foolishness. As a kind of gift to us as he left,…
Caldera Environment Centre During last year CEC became an affiliate of the Better Planning Network (BPN) (flyer attached), as part of a widespread community response to the Review. BPN is circulating a petition (attached) which requests the NSW Parliament to: establish a multi-party Committee to fairly assess the proposals to amend the planning system and to ensure…
The General Manager Tweed Shire Council PO Box 816 Murwillumbah NSW 2482 18 January 2013 Planning Reforms – Draft LEP 2012 Caldera Environment Centre (CEC) is extremely disappointed that Tweed Shire Council has rushed the draft LEP to exhibition due to pressure from the Minister for Planning. The Minister’s media release appears to be the…
NEWS FLASH: Glenugie Update 7th January 2012 From: Chris Aitchison, Secretary Caldera Environment Centre For over 50 days, a contingent of brave, caring, and representative people from across the Northern Rivers region successfully hindered Metgasco’s attempts to access a Glenugie property, where it plans to undertake exploratory drilling for coal seam gas (CSG). The blockade…
Draft Tweed Shire LEP 2012 – Coastal Koala habitat loses over 1200ha of protection The Tweed Shire draft LEP 2012 is currently on exhibition for public comment. During the exhibition period there have been four public workshops to explain the draft LEP, with a fifth workshop to be held at Tweed Heads in early January.…
Mr Reg van Rij Regional Manager – Residential LEDA Developments Pty Ltd PO Box 1914 Surfers Paradise QLD 4217 14 December 2012 Dear Mr van Rij Thank you for your letter of 6 November 2012, and for the invitation to engage with your company in relation to the Preferred Project Report (PPR) for the proposed…
News from: Steve James, MCGs Coordinator It has been a long time in the making, but Murwillumbah Community Gardens (MCGs) finally has land! MCGs committee members recently entered a lease for a parcel of land on West Street, Murwillumbah. The site has much potential, but does not yet have any amenities or infrastructure. The committee is…
Robyn Campbell Hydrosphere Consulting robyn.campbell@hydrosphere.com.au SUBMISSION: Tweed Integrated Water Cycle Management Review (IWCM) Paper Byrrill Creek Landcare Group thanks you for the opportunity to be involved in the process of helping to formulate the future IWCM Strategy. As a landcare group, who have been revegetating riparian areas in the upper…
[Reprinted from the CEC’s TREE Magazine August 1993. Some minor editing has been done to correct some typo’s after article was scanned. Ed.] “ If local government areas were amalgamated, we could have areas like Swiss Cantons, English Counties, or German Lands, and dispense with States, which are a colonial anachronism. Removing one level of government should…
In case we missed it.. Residents in Butler County, Pennsylvania share their fracking experience. Film shared courtesy of Nature Abounds’ friend Rich Waters, a local photographer and videographer who is documenting how fracking is changing the lives of his neighbors in Southwest Pennsylvania. Link to Video: http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31880.htm Photo is from Tara gas…
New York State communities use local zoning laws to fight against CSG Frack Fight. A Secret War of Activists. With the World in the Balance. By Ellen Cantarow (19 Nov. 2012 Information Clearing House) “There’s a war going on that you know nothing about between a coalition of great powers and a small insurgent movement. It’s…
*MEDIA RELEASE* Sunday 4 November 2012 *SAVE NORTH COAST NATURE CAMPAIGN LAUNCHED* An alliance of environmental professionals and conservation groups are today (Monday) launching a campaign to prevent the NSW Government’s plans to remove essential environmental protection from nearly 60% of the Far North Coast’s forests, wetlands and wildlife habitats. Called Save North…
*CONSERVATION ECOLOGISTS ASSOCIATION** **Science — Conservation — Community** **MEDIA RELEASE 28 October 2012* The Conservation Ecologists Association (CEA) is requesting that finalisation of far north coast Local Environment Plans be deferred until the State Government completes its review of environmental zones. The request to the Mayors of Tweed, Byron, Ballina, Lismore, and Kyogle Councils is…
Minister Hazzard abolishes E Zones and sentences Koalas to E-xtinction The Caldera Environment Centre is appalled by the recent announcement by the Minister for Planning and Infrastructure and local representatives Don Page and Thomas George to remove environmental protection zones (E2 and E3) from draft LEPs on the north coast. Claims by the farming lobby about…
CEC PRESS RELEASE 29/08/2012 Developers have a Licence to Kill James Bond had the iconic “Licence to Kill”, and now it seems that the NSW state government is granting a Licence to Kill for the developers of Lot 490. Despite the existence of threatened species at the site and the fact that the area acts…
Submission to the Office of Environment and Heritage Couchy Creek Nature Reserve – Draft Plan of Management The Caldera Environment Centre (CEC) welcomes the OEH initiative to develop a plan of Management for the Couchy Creek Nature Reserve. Our organisation strongly supports the efforts of National Parks and Wildlife Service to manage problem weeds and…
Caldera Environment Centre media statement June 2012 Water Workshops The CEC was proud to have been a co-sponsor of these water workshops and it was refreshing to have such informative presentations on sustainable development in our community. Dr Litowski from the Sydney Olympic Park Authority has demonstrated that ecologically sustainable development is possible; the technology…
Posted by grh. 20-Aug-2012 News from Fukushima has been consistently bad since the severe earthquake and tsunami on 11 March 2011.. However, the worst of the disaster may be yet to come. There is also the symbiosis between the nuclear energy and the continued production of nuclear weapons. This from Prof. Anthony Hall writing for GlobalResearch.Ca…
From the ABC website.. 13/8/2012. Researchers in Japan say radioactive fallout from the Fukushima meltdowns have created abnormalities among the nation’s butterfly species. The researchers collected hundreds of butterflies in the weeks and months after the Fukushima nuclear disaster. They found abnormalities in more than 10 per cent, including unusually small wings. The rate of…
Submission from the Caldera Environment Centre to the Tweed Shire Council in regards to the recent Heritage study. The Tweed has several remarkable characteristics which make certain buildings in the region of special or heritage significance. Link to Submission: = = = = = =
TREE Magazine AUTUMN 2012 Cabarita Beach Kings Forest The Kerry CSG Blockade The Environment and Awareness NRG Report Tweed CAN Report
To the General Manager, Mr Mike Rayner Tweed Water Staff Tweed Shire Council tsc@tweed.nsw.gov.au The Save Byrrill Creek group welcomes the opportunity for an Independent Review of the IWCM For this to be a truly independent Review we request that both Hunter Water and MWH are not contracted to do the Review. We support an…
The Director General NSW Government Crown Lands Division GPO Box 15 Sydney NSW 2001 Tweed Coast Holiday Parks Reserve Trust (TCHPRT) and Land and Property Management Authority (LPMA Bogangar, Cabarita South Precinct Plan Introduction/Summary The Tweed Coast has been under constant threat of wave and wind erosion for millennia, but the rate of sea level…
From Hop E. The Caldera Environment Centre Inc (CEC) invites local community groups and individuals to form an affiliated coalition to lobby Australian governments (at all three levels) to nominate the Border Ranges bio region as a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve. Biosphere Reserves were promoted as a conservation/sustainability tool and a major part of the ‘Man…
* Biosphere * Paul Gilding * CSG Cobaki * Flying Foxes * Grow your own house * Consuela * Captain Sage View PDF: TREE Magazine SPRING 2011
PRESS RELEASE – Caldera Environment Centre 30/8/2011 From Mr. Paul (Hop.e) Hopkins Plans to create a biosphere reserve for the Mt Warning caldera are gaining momentum, after receiving support from Tweed Shire Council. The project, headed by the Caldera Environment Centre (CEC), received unanimous support from the Tweed’s councillors this month. This month’s Council meeting…
Written by Kate McIntosh and Luis Feliu From the Tweed ECHO Thursday, 30 June 2011 – A push to have the Tweed caldera region recognised as an internationally significant ecological site appears to be gathering momentum. At its meeting last week Tweed Shire Council unanimously voted in favour of a motion to bring forward…
TREE Magazine Winter-2011 The Vampire – The Mur’bah Rally – Tara Report – – Coal Seam Facts and Fracking Action – – Biosphere Reserve – Climate Action – – The Inimitable Captain Sage – = = = = = = = =
TREE-Magazine_Autumn2011 * Water Wise * They’re Fracking where? * How the Rally came and went.. * Byrrill Creek Update * A Biosphere Reserve *Stirring the Calderan * How the Tweed will cope with Climate Change *Working with Nature * Climate Denial Tweed Style * Captain Sage = =…
TREE Tweed River Environmental Echo Vol. 9, Issue 15 April 2010 Newsletter of The Caldera Environment Centre Link to PDF here: TREE-Magazine_Vol-9-15_April-2010 = = ===
