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North Coast news daily: continued from page 11 that keeps people from seeing every animal they pierce, carve, slice and crunch as a feeling individual. Byron Shire is known for its outof-the-box outlook. Vegans, vegetarians and conscious, organic farmers are thus embraced rather than ridiculed. Animals endure terrible suffering at the hands of humans and we surely need reminders time and time again to redirect our moral compass. Sarah Blogg Byron Bay
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Crown Lands Trust Board Members – Application for Appointment Paterson Street Hilltop (R1002857) Reserve Trust Applications are sought for appointment as Trust Board members of the above mentioned Reserve Trust which is the trustee of Reserve No. 1002857 at Byron Bay notified on 24 September 1999 for Environmental Protection. The term of appointment will be for a period not exceeding 5 years. Successful applicants will be responsible for the care, control and management of the reserve in a voluntary capacity.
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The mega music festival trial site at Yelgun has asked the government to allow them to increase noise levels. Public submissions have closed now. You may have missed the ad in the paper about public submissions, but even if you had seen it, there was no mention of increasing noise levels. Similarly, if you had read the 180 pages asking for more noise, you probably wouldn’t have picked up that it was about increasing noise. The noise application was obscure. Parklands is requesting noise limits that are much more than that provided in other states and even for other festivals (eg Bluesfest). They
have consistently exceeded the limits that the government gave them. They can be heard 10km away. Instead of turning it down to the required levels, they want to increase levels! They say they can’t run festivals at the levels they were given. But the other nearby mega festival site at Tyagarah, Bluesfest, has much lower noise limits and they seem capable of continuing to hold festivals. They make out that our community is only concerned about the bass frequencies and not the higher frequencies, but this is not supported by the complaint statistics. Some houses in the vicinity had their windows rattling during festivals! This is one of NSW’s most biologically diverse localities with 50 threatened fauna species. If windows rattle, then what happens to the tiny animal bodies? These festivals need to be moved and CONOS Inc has a Change.org petition asking for that to happen (CONOS Inc on Facebook). Bob Oehlman, President, CONOS Inc
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Now that all the accusing and posting and tweeting is over, it is clear as the dust settles that there are no winners in
the rail v trail debacle. I have never understood why in this supposedly equitable community there was no move to bury the hatchet and cooperate on a joint venture. Certainly a rail trail could have been built while preserving the rail. The money could have created a path for bikes, horses, carts, wheelchairs, wheelbarrows if wanted. Clearing the scrub and tidying up the corridor would have enabled the rail to be used for electric golf carts with rail wheels as in NZ or rail speeders as in Newfoundland, or rail scooters or kalamazoos (the pushpull type). But no, instead a few regional airports will get cleaner restrooms and their potholes filled. I guess this is what happens when people are unwilling to work together and are ruled by a government that does not want to spend the time and money pleasing everyone. Jim Barnes Brunswick Heads Q The demise of the regional Rail to Trail project in the melange of competing community and commercial interests and significant practical challenges leaves our Grab The Rail campaign for
a better traffic and transport solution for Byron Bay clearly out in front. The rail corridor in Byron Bay is the town’s transport infrastructure legacy and is perfectly situated to form the arterial transit way for the town. It is now time that our Council and state authorities recognise this town’s legitimate claim to the use of the rail corridor for the pressing traffic and transport needs of Byron Bay. Check out ‘Grab The Rail’ on Facebook and support our campaign at www.byrontrafficfix.org. Paul Jones President, Butler Street Community Network Q The northern rivers rail trail
proposal had its $44m state funding taken off the table, and given to regional airports development instead. The clear winner still is Rail Trails NSW’s Tumbarumba, with their $6m still intact to build their rail trail. Their proposal has been an unwavering and simple railtrail-only concept. They well deserve their success. Northern Rivers Rail Trail is excited for this NSW first. The first rail trail in NSW. The NSW regional development panel has illustrated how continued on page 14
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12 July 1, 2015 The Byron Shire Echo
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