tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7878592054777492431.post9136421119326895747..comments2024-01-20T10:32:53.309+10:00Comments on CairnsBlog.net: Syd Walker’s Wild RiverMichael P Moorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02890121680113642715noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7878592054777492431.post-87308392830048444812010-10-15T11:48:36.355+10:002010-10-15T11:48:36.355+10:00Quite right Dave K9, and furthermore, any lawful a...Quite right Dave K9, and furthermore, any lawful activities already occurring can continue, and almost all of the country involved is grazing leases, so there's no question that grazing, gardening etc can continue.<br /><br />As I've said previously, Wild Rivers is the least of our problems, and all this hubbub about Wild Rivers is a distraction from the fundamental structural problems which continue to suppress economic growth, enterprise development and employment on the Peninsula.<br /><br />Repealing Wild Rivers would probably result in destructive large-scale mining activity, but would do nothing to address the problems that all we Peninsula landholders face, indigenous and others.Matt CYPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11764878799029782560noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7878592054777492431.post-32867086934772457402010-10-15T10:07:26.044+10:002010-10-15T10:07:26.044+10:00The fact remains that everybody in Queensland has ...The fact remains that everybody in Queensland has to make a development application before commencing a development, and the assessment process usually gives permission with conditions attached.<br /><br />Everybody (not just indigenous people) making a development application in a Wild Rivers protected area (within 1,000 metres of a watercourse) has to address the environmental impacts of their proposal on the watercourse and catchment. That 1,000 metres is not a total exclusion zone, it is the threshold for having to address the impacts.<br /><br />Thus when Cape Alumina applied for permission to strip-mine on the Wenlock, they addressed the impacts by proposing to have a 200 metre setback, sediment traps, etc. The Government APPROVED the development, but with a 500 metre setback. <br /><br />This proves that the 1,000 metre zone is not "locked up" as Noel Pearson would have you believe. If you can have strip-mining within 500 metres of a watercourse, then the impacts of veggie gardens would probably be allowed within 50 metres, so long as the impacts are addressed properly, which should be easy.<br /><br />Likewise, you could probably have cattle-grazing within 50 metres of a protected watercourse if the river banks are protected from trampling by fencing, and water is pumped to troughs on hard standing.<br /><br />I fail to see the significance of someone's opinion on 9-11 to this issue. It is Noel Pearson's distortion of the argument, which receives so much publicity, that is the big problem.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7878592054777492431.post-37906053576123301132010-10-14T15:57:44.283+10:002010-10-14T15:57:44.283+10:00Syd accuses me of "another intellectually dis...Syd accuses me of "another intellectually dishonest hatchet-job'.<br /><br />I prefer to think of it as a precisely controlled demolition.Bryan Lawhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02828616096900664359noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7878592054777492431.post-70821614864547965272010-10-14T13:37:39.042+10:002010-10-14T13:37:39.042+10:00I was not aware this article was to be published b...I was not aware this article was to be published beforehand. I'm grateful at least for the right of reply and will submit an article in response in due course.<br /><br />I'd like to make one thing clear right now, in view of the way Bryan's article is introduced. <br /><br />ALL opinions I express on Cairns Blog are my own, unless explicity stated otherwise. <br /><br />I am an ordinary member (not an officeholder) of FoE Kuranda and the Queensland Greens. That's it. I do not currently speak as a representative of those groups on ANY issue - from wild rivers to unruly neocons. (I am also a member of the local library. I don't speak for it, either.)<br /><br />I view this article of Bryan's as another intellectually dishonest hatchet-job on the Wild Rivers issue.<br /><br />It's also another trite slur on views I hold, after much consideration, about quite different topics. <br /><br />Bryan, once again, is attempting to muddy the waters. He tries to conflate a number of separate issues. Each is worthy of debate in its own right - but he seems to think that by sneering at the lot, readers will dismiss the lot.<br /><br />It's an old rhetorical trick. I wonder - why does he plays these games?<br /><br />More later...Syd Walkerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08575806747240913926noreply@blogger.com