Letters West Byron in court
Beach or rock walls?
I have been listening to the ongoing court proceedings Council v Site R&D (part of the West Byron DA) of the Land and Environment Court. I noticed that the developer’s traffic expert opines that there won’t be a significant impact to the traffic in Byron Bay during construction. He recommends to limit truck movements to 10 trucks per hour for the importation of 470,000 m3 of fill. That is approximately 47,000 trucks in 4,700 hours, which at five eight-hour-days a week equates to 117 weeks; or, a truck every six minutes along Ewingsdale Rd, for well over two years. And this is only one of the many absurdities proposed for this site, which is only part of the West Byron release area. The mind boggles at this madness. Apparently, most of the landowners are locals. Why anyone would contemplate to do such things to their own community is beyond me. Tom Vidal Byron Bay
It never ceases to amaze me how many people remain in denial about climate heating and the effects it is having on sea levels and thus coastal erosion. The CSIRO’s recently released ‘State of the Climate 2020’ once again confirms that seas have been rising over the past century and the rate is rapidly increasing. The CSIRO identify that ‘Global mean sea level has risen by around 25cm since 1880; half of this rise has occurred since 1970’. Further identifying ‘the rate of global mean sea level rise increased from 1.5 ± 0.2 cm per decade (1901–2000) to 3.5 ± 0.4 cm per decade (1993–2019)’. The CSIRO also identify that ‘Rising sea levels pose a significant threat to coastal communities by amplifying the risks of coastal inundation, storm surge, and erosion. Coastal communities in Australia are already experiencing some of these changes’. Sea levels are rising because our rapidly warming seas are expanding and land based glaciers and ice sheets are melting and flowing into ▶ Continued on next page
BVHS bouquet Congratulations to the Brunswick Valley Historical Society (mullumbimbymuseum. org.au) for making history itself. The Society produced a
Cartoon by Holly English www.hollyenglish.com fine four-part series of films, meticulously edited and directed by local filmmaker Sharon Shostak, on the arrival of the ‘new settlers’ in the 1970s and its repercussions, mostly positive, among the wider community. Many of those settlers are still among you, busily creating and gardening and dancing (where permissible). I hope those in the hill tribes have not been too disheartened by Council’s ham-fisted approach to its illegal-dwellings ‘policy’. Perhaps the human race has more history ahead of it to record, at least for some
alien archeologists to uncover a few millennia from now. Michael McDonald Bairnsdale VIC
I’m so QUIET! Another night with the tourists next door. They were very considerate after arriving home at 11:45pm on a weeknight. I know that because they told me loudly how considerate they were, and how quiet they were being. Ah, tourism in residential areas, the suck that keeps on sucking. Matt Hartley Byron Bay
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