UPDATE: Last week, the coal industry indicated that they want to build a massive port right in the middle of 90 Mile Beach! In the last few months the whole story of the Napthine Government’s plan for a massive brown coal export industry has started to emerge showing the full extent of the damage. They’re moving full steam ahead, trying to secure partners in this environmental crime that will complete stage one of these coal export plans. And they’re luring them in with $90 million of taxpayer funds, to help kick-start the pillaging and plundering of that which you and I hold dear! It comes as no surprise that the Napthine Government’s recent actions to find on or offshore investors are shrouded in secrecy2. These export plans will be a nightmare for regional and coastal families, a nightmare for our natural environment, and sadly it will be a climate nightmare for you and me. The decision on stage one of this plan is only a few months away. I urgently need your help today because there isn’t a second to lose. 13 billion tonnes of the most emissions-intensive coal, much worse than black coal, could be dug up and burnt overseas. This is equivalent to 13 additional massive brown coal mines each the size of the Hazelwood mine. Farms will be taken from families across Gippsland - land that has been theirs for generations. Others will lose their homes and livelihoods. Our chance at a clean energy economy for Victoria and the thousands of jobs that go with it will go up in smoke, along with enough carbon dioxide to blow out the global carbon budget essential for a safe climate. With absolute disregard for their significance, beauty and sheer right to exist, our natural places will be caught in the crossfire, including the Strzelecki Ranges and the spectacular Gippsland Lakes. And it appears that nothing is sacred anymore. Plans are on the table to turn Corner Inlet, one of Victoria’s most pristine marine wonderlands and holiday hotspot, neighbouring Wilsons Promontory, into a major industrial port and dredge its peaceful bay to fit enormous coal freighters. Last, but certainly not least (and I’m sure a point of excruciating frustration you too) it will be you and I who foot the bill for the billions of dollars needed to create the major new freight infrastructure, and the cash handouts. Already $110 million to industrialise Western Port, home to Phillip Island’s beloved fairy penguin colonies, was committed in May’s state budget and $2 million has been given to start industrialising Corner Inlet. It’s really that big. This is what we’re fighting. This red carpet treatment for these planet-destroying polluters is a disgrace. latrobevalleyexpress.au/story/1714079/valleys-3-billion-rail-and-port-link/?src=rss
Posted on: Thu, 29 Aug 2013 12:01:19 +0000
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