Like Margaret I’m baffled by
this whole thing. Does the term “endangered box-woodland” actually mean anything
if you are allowed to destroy it? A little bit here and a little bit there and
before long, hey presto we don’t have any left so we don’t need to worry about
conserving it. To say they will conserve a bigger area on ridges, where a hell
of a lot of the ACT’s nature reserves are already situated is defeating the
purpose of declaring the box- gum woodlands on the lowlands which is what the
area around the Mugga tip is. I find the whole scenario of so-called “offsets”
similar to something that comes out the rear end of a male
bovine!
I had seen reference to this
before but thanks to Chris Hastir for bringing it to our
attention.
Mark
From:
Margaret Leggoe
Sent: Monday, 24 June 2013 4:36 PM
To: 'Hastir, Chris';
Subject:
RE: [canberrabirds] News
1.
This doesn’t tell us much
about where they are going to clear from.
2.
It doesn’t tell us where they
are going to develop the additional bushland.
3.
It doesn’t explain how they
will create old trees with hollow branches in a newly planted stand of
replacement trees.
4.
The map was useless. It
is just a Google map with a pointer halfway between Tharwa and Corin
Dam.
Does anyone know contact details
of the Project manager so that one might seek answers to these
questions?
Margaret
Leggoe
From:
Hastir, Chris
Sent: Monday, 24 June 2013 4:14 PM
To:
Subject:
[canberrabirds] News
Push to expand Mugga Lane tip
– from ABC Website
Posted 1 hour 11 minutes ago
Map:
ACT
The ACT Government
says about 10 hectares of endangered box-gum woodland will need to be cleared in
order to expand Canberra's Mugga Lane tip.
A proposal to expand the tip by
37 hectares is in its final stages of approval.
It would cater for Canberra's
waste disposal needs for another 30 years but could affect nearby
woodlands.
Project manager David Roberts says
part of the project would involve developing a larger woodland for endangered
species.
"A rarer type of woodland in the
current nature reserve system which is mostly on the ridges and therefore quite
attractive. It's three-times the size," he said.
"It needs a little bit of
management, which we're prepared to do in terms of managing woodland and
controlling feral animals, but we think that once we've done that it'll be a far
better fit for the nature reserve."
ACT No Waste director Chris Ware
says the Territory is also on track to reach a 90 per cent recycling target over
that time.
"There comes a point in time
when some materials we generate just can't be recycled," he said.
"Asbestos is certainly a big
one, there'll always be some of that, that you can't do anything
with."
Chris
Hastir
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