Loss of trees within the city

To:	"Peter Milburn" <>
Subject:	Loss of trees within the city
From:	"martin butterfield" <>
Date:	Fri, 9 Jan 2009 16:24:15 +1100

I'm not sure that self-government is to blame. Not that I am a fan of the current mob you have in the ACT Council, or its predecessors, but reflecting on the actions of the Commonwealth Minister for Water Skiing the Feds would have been no better.

Apart from the destruction industry being the only effective economic base for the ACT the other issue is that the two political parties are strongly influenced by the developers on the one hand or the CFMEU on the other. Neither of these gives a drat about anything other than maximising the financial welfare of their members.

What is needed is a political force that really cares about environmental issues. I tend to agree with Mark that the Greens have not indicated they fill that position.

Martin

On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 1:53 PM, Peter Milburn <> wrote:

The ACT only survives by virtue of the income generated from housing development. The Bush Capital was doomed when self-government was introduced.

Something else that concerns me is the rate of attrition of mature trees within the city be they native or exotic. With every storm that passes a tree somewhere loses a branch and the next day I hear the inevitable clatter of its removal. Has it become too easy to remove landscape trees?

Additionally, there seems to be a close correlation between building work and the death of adjacent mature Eucalypts despite the cute little fences they are provided with for protection.

Perhaps we are literally heading towards being a bush rather than a tree capital.

Milburn
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