Report from Hobart Airport - 15km NE of Ralphs Bay
Temperature: 19°C (66°F)
Save Ralphs Bay Inc.
Members and supporters of Save Ralphs Bay Inc will gather at Parliament House in Hobart at 4.00 p.m. today (Wednesday 17/11/04) to hear their elected representatives debate – for the first time - the Walker plan for the Ralphs Bay Conservation
•READ MORE... •Sydney-based Walker Corporation plans to construct an 800 home, 200 berth canal estate and marina inside the Ralphs Bay Conservation Area at Lauderdale, Tasmania. The developer acknowledges a strong community backlash, but with a projected $400 million in the equation, it’s hoping to convince the Lennon Government to grant Project of State Significance Status to the Ralphs Bay Village Project.
Walker Corp has its eyes on Ralphs Bay in part because in NSW their proposal would be ILLEGAL. Canal estates have been found to cause the destruction of wetland and mangrove habitats, wildlife mortality, declining fisheries, poor water quality, rising acid-sulphate soils, loss of public access and the list goes on.
We have learned that money talks with brash insistence in the New Tasmania; that community groups like SRB Inc will not be given space in Premier Lennon’s diary, while Lang Walker and his business confidante, Labor’s Mr Fixit, Graham Richardson can waltz right in to that eleventh floor suite.
In the New Tasmania, Ralphs Bay is a Conservation Area in name only.....
•READ MORE... •A letter from Raena Armitage - Glenorchy, Tasmania
Printed in the Hobart Mercury, Nov 3, 2004.
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