tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7878592054777492431.post-82916347402044859432008-12-03T08:05:00.000+10:002008-12-03T08:05:00.000+10:002008-12-03T08:05:00.000+10:00So now, we know why Val dressed up as Mrs Clause, so she could give H &amp; S Vision &amp; Heldley Group a nice early chrissy present.<BR/><BR/>Approval for a development proposal worth over $500 million dollars!!<BR/><BR/>Her reward must have been something to dance about! <BR/><BR/>One of her pre-election quotes was about how the big end of town developers were running this City under a Byrne administration.<BR/><BR/>So nothing has changed?<BR/><BR/>We have swapped one arrogant prodevelopment at all costs Mayor, with another, and our lovely enviroment continues to pay a heavy toll.<BR/><BR/>A least she is ensuring that her new team of enviromental officers will have plenty of work to do in the future, with all this development in sensitive areas, and poor track records on enviromental damge that have plagued most development sites around Cairns including Hedley (part of Vision Group) when they heavily polluted Deep Creek, and were fined over $100,000 dollars.<BR/><BR/>Sadly, at the end of the day, its us rate payers/taxpayers that are paying for all the enviromental clean up, whilst the developers are raking it in and onto the next project. Once lost, our natural enviroment is lost for ever!AngryAsnoreply@blogger.com