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…
Murwillumbah Community Gardens finally has land
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…
IWCM Review- Byrrill Creek Landcare Group- Dec 2012
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…
BIOREGIONALISM- State System under Question
[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…
Fracking America- Butler County, Pennsylvania
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…
Community Resistance to CSG in New York State
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…
SAVE NORTH COAST NATURE CAMPAIGN LAUNCHED
*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 request deferral of LEP’s
*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…
Hazzard abolishes E Zones
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…
Licence to Kill for Lot 490
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…
Couchy Creek Nature Reserve Submission
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…
June 2012 Water Workshops
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…
Fukushima: the worst is still to come
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…
Fukushima radiation spawned mutant butterflies
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…
Tweed Heritage Submission- March 2012
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: = = = = = =
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IWCM- Review by Save Byrrill Creek Group February 2102
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…
Development Tweed Coast- Submission
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…
Invitation to join Biosphere Project
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…
TREE Magazine Spring 2011
Press Release- Biosphere Reserve
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…
Biosphere push finds support
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…
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TREE, Vol. 9, Issue 12 Editorial- Developer puppet councillors and/or council bureaucrats call the shots; Kings Forest and Cobaki Lakes – Concept Plan Applications, Councillor Katie Milne on the inadequacies of the development proposals; Repco Rally Australia- inappropriate to say the least; The Issue of Public Consultation- interpreting power relationships; Dear Council- … please explain; NSW Spin…
Tree Magazine Winter 2008

** History and Theme of World Environment Day 2008 ** TWEED LANDCARE ** THE NIMBIN ENVIRONMENT CENTRE ** TWEED GREENS ** TWEED CAN ** VEGANISM ** AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL ** SEA SHEPHERD ** SUSTAINABLE VILLAGE ALLIANCE ** NORTH COAST CLIMATE ACTION GROUP ** NORTH COAST ENVIRONMENT COUNCIL ** CALDERA ENVIRONMENT CENTRE ** Earth Hour or Green…
Tree Magazine Spring 2007

Give Your Vote more teeth- vote multiple times below the line; editorial- when it comes to the federal election there is really only one option, let’s get rid of the Howard gang; Why vote in a world gone mad? at some time in the last thirty years, most of us decided that the suburban lifestyle we grew…
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TREE, VOL. 9, ISSUE 6 No Nightcap Nightmare- 420 buildings in a new ‘village’ just outside the existing village of Uki; Editorial- Full Spectrum Dominance; Whose Fault? the conservatives are accountable; ‘THE TIMES THEY ARE A CHANGING’- time limits on development consents; KINGS FOREST- a timeline of the development of the ‘Development’; RE Kings Forest- Letter to Frank Sartor, Minister…
Tree Magazine Autumn 2006

TREE, VOL. 9, ISSUE 5 Lest We Forget- the massive bombing of people and infrastructure (the sewage treatment plants, water supply plants, electrical generation plants, schools and universities) and the depleted uranium fallout from battlefield weapons, adds up to an horrendous social justice and environmental catastrophe; KINGS FOREST- the Chief Town Planner’s recommendation regarding the King’s Forest rezoning has Iemma’s and…
Tree Magazine December 2005

The Caldera Environment Centre Tree Vol 9 Issue 4 Dec. 2005. TOPICS FOR DISCUSSION WITH TWEED SHIRE COUNCIL ADMINISTRATORS 1. ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION ZONES should be “NO GO” Areas 2. PUBLIC PARTICIPATION 3. LIMITS TO POPULATION GROWTH 4. Need to promote TWEED VEGETATION MANAGEMENT PLAN and native (locally indigenous) vegetation 5. Need to promote WATER…
Tree Magazine October 2005

TREE- Vol-9 issue 3- October 2005 — Wollumbin festival issue — Wollumbin Dreaming — AUSTRALIANS AND UNAUSTRALIANS — Stirring the Calderan- revolutionary change in Venezuela — DEBATE- Sustainable Agriculture and Chemical Use — Party Politics- TWEEDLE DEE / TWEEDLE DUM TEDIUM –Social Justice and Empowerment: View PDF: TREE_vol_9_03_October2005 =…
Tree Magazine August 2005

Tweed River Environmental Echo Issue 2.`August 2005 — Editorial- No more dams.. — WE HAVE LOST FIVE GOOD, HONEST COUNCILLORS … — BUSINESS WELFARE –- Stirring the Calderan- -– DEBATE- Weed control and Chemical Use — THE DREAMING — DO TREES TALK? — Water Policy- PART ONE View PDF: TREE_vol_9_issue_02_August2005 …
Tree Magazine March 2005

Tweed River Environmental Echo. Newsletter of The Caldera Environment Centre. Vol-9. Issue 1. March 2005. — Editorial- membership revival needed. — The Current Inquiry into the Tweed Council … — Wollumbin Scout Camp –- Stirring the Calderan- -– DEBATE- Weed control- Is Roundup the new DDT? — CEC STRATEGY PLAN : DRAFT FOR COMMENT…
TREE Magazine Winter 2001

IN THIS ISSUE GREEN POWER- GLOBAL GREENS CONFERENCE NOT-SO-GREEN POWER- SUGAR MILL CO-GENERATION KINGS FOREST AND SEASIDE CITY- COUNCIL’S COASTAL PLANNING UNDER INVESTIGATION HASTINGS POINT RAINFOREST FIRE- RURAL FIRE SERVICE REFUSES TO SAY SORRY WOLLUMBIN FOREST- UPDATE PLUS: * CONSUELA * LAND CLEARING IN QUEENSLAND * POWER COMPANY VANDALISM View PDF: TREE-Magazine-2001-07-Winter2001_BQ_SM_OCR = =…
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In This Issue * DRAFT TWEED LOCAL LOCAL ENVIRONMENT PLAN- ARGUMENT FOR IMPROVED ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION * COLLECTING SEED AND REPLANTING * AUSTRALIAN PLANTS IN DANGER * Win in Court for Opponents of the Timbarra mine * The Flying Foxes in the Maclean Rainforest Reserve- * LONG DISTANCE WALKING TRACK – SCENIC AND CALDERA RIMS-…
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In This Issue * Tweed Shire Council Draft Management Plan and Budget for Year 1998-99 * Jabiluka Blockade * ORGANIC FOOD- SWALLOWED BY AGRIBUSINESS? * TIMBER IS TREASURE * BIOENERGY – A NEW DIRECTION * Economics and Other Lies * CHEMICALS PLAGUE US ALL View PDF: TREE-Magazine-1998-03-Autumn98_BQ_SM_OCR = = =…
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INSIDE ** T.S.C. RECYCLICNG TEETHING PROBLEMS • •• MOUNT ST. PAT’S H.S . FACES ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES • • • AUSTRALIAN URANIUM THREATENS AUSTRALIAN SECURITY. . •• FIVE FACTORS OF UNSUSTAINABILITY IN WESTERN AGRICULTURAL METHOD ** CLEANER WATERCOURSES- A CONSUMERS GUIDE TO CLEANING AND GREENING • View PDF: TREE-Magazine-1993-06-June93_BQ_SM_OCR = = = =…