![]() 2 call was an enthusiastic “yes” from CSRD Chief Administrative Officer and EOC Director-of-the-day John MacLean. “What have you got to lose? They may say no, but again, they may say yes.” “Call the Columbia Shuswap Regional District Emergency Operations Centre,” her daughter, Jolene, advised. 9, Bentley was sure her wedding dreams were shattered. 18.īelieving she, her husband-to-be and guests would not be able to use the Squilax-Anglemont Road to travel to their wedding venue near Seymour Arm on Sept. The 65-year-old Century 21 Lakeside realtor was evacuated when the Bush Creek East Wildfire raged through Celista on Aug. We’re actively doing plenty to trash the earth.Cynthia Bentley feared that nine months of wedding planning had gone up in flames. Studies suggest that on average, SUV’s and dual cabs have increased in size by around one-third compared to 2020 and Australia and as a general rule, a vehicle that weighs 1/3rd more uses 1/3rd more fuel, lagging the world in introducing fuel efficiency standards, is the global dumping ground for gas-guzzlers that now make a measurable contribution to carbon emissions and yet if 100 people went out to buy a new car, 2/3rds are likely to buy an SUV or dual cab (and the FBT-exemption for dual cabs continues to encourage many to buy such vehicles to take advantage of what is a tax subsidy). Do we really care about the environment? We say we do and we want action on climate change, but our actions and our choices are at odds with what we say we want. Means “we” crave bigger houses crammed onto smaller blocks, overwhelmingly buy bigger and bigger vehicles (neither an SUV nor a dual cab ute is a “car”), buy and consume more and waste more and all of these things combine to degrade the planet at an ever faster rate. Our collective obsession with faux affluence (we used to call this “keep up with the Jones’s) Its actually worse than “people who do nothing”. Join the Facebook group ‘Save the Scribbly Gums’ and be part of the community action. And while this sensitive coastal area bordering Simpsons Creek remains intact, we can save it. This is not as the developers suggest ‘an ecology-led solution’. Named after the habitat they are destroying. The developers have the hide to call this Wallum. Imagine waiting that long for your home to be built. It can take up to 200 years for a hollow to develop. Scribbly gums that have been luxury housing to so many species for over 400 years. And we cannot and must not destroy places like this heathland full of scribbly gums. We need systemic change, we cannot build our way out. We are living in that part of the Venn diagram where the climate crisis intersects with the housing crisis. ![]() Who is this housing even for? More out of town investors? It’s wrong. This is clearly not going to be their housing. ![]() Just around the corner is a pod village of flood victims. According to some sources, stage one has seen some of these blocks, as small as 450 sq metres sell for close to $1 million. Maybe the habitat we need to push in on isn’t the precious and fragile remnants of wilderness, but the housing portfolios of the super wealthy. The last Census told the truth – when one million homes sat empty, many were giant high-end palaces of privilege. Because somehow the Regional Planning Panel decided to green light a luxury development. There are a range of critically endangered, endangered, vulnerable and threatened species on this site, as well as four threatened ecological communities (vulnerable, endangered and critically endangered), which weren’t given proper consideration in light of the DA. Surely the Biodiversity Conservation Act should protect this site? If not, I’d want to know why? 14,000 species seems pretty bloody biodiverse to me. Australian Wetland Consulting have listed 14,000 fauna at this site. The frogs are both classified as vulnerable to extinction, and the koala and the cockatoo are critically endangered. This wildly beautiful habitat for sugar gliders, koalas, the glossy black cockatoo, microbats, large bent-winged bats, the grass owl, the rainbow bee-eater, native bees, and the Wallum froglet and the Wallum sedge frog. ![]() Last week ecologist James Barrie introduced me to the wallum wildflower heathland salt marsh at the end of Omega Circuit in Brunswick Heads. Byron Echo Print Archive (previous volume).
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