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dşĈŊ şŕ şſ ĎĶĕ şǔ Now don’t get me wrong I love planting trees, it’s great exercise and very grounding. But if you are planting koala habitat trees thinking that is all that is needed to save koalas, you’re very much wrong. Without defending unburnt, old growth native forest you’re just doing it to feel good, living with a false sense of security. Not to mention sending koalas and all native species and us humans to our extinction.
Right now the NSW government and Forestry Corporation are logging old growth native forest for a whopping $28 per hectare profit. So by the time the koala habitat trees you’ve planted are old enough to support koalas they will be extinct, along with many other native animals. Without intact unburnt old growth native forest, we are well and truly fucked. We are not defending nature. We are nature
defending ourselves. Old growth, fucken oath! Murray Drechsle Mullumbimby
No Dunoon Dam! Time is running out to email a submission to Rous County Council on their water strategy stating your preferences for future water options in our area. Rous Water voted against a mega Dunoon Dam at their December 2020 meeting and again rejected a rescission motion to put the dam back
REALITY CHECK
on the agenda earlier this year. An asset such as a mega dam will not be an asset in a drought. It will be a white elephant and an expensive one. Rous is proposing to address water security around the existing Rocky Creek Dam, plus a range of other water resource options. The IWCM lists these options: One of these is purified recycled water. The jargon of ‘toilet to tap’ or ‘poo water’ is a blatant and sensational scare tactic being put forward by a group of disingenuous people lobbying for a dam. For many people, they are already drinking recycled water and the technology for future purification plants is becoming more sophisticated all the time. It would be a deeply problematic situation for Rous if they revisited the previously proposed Dunoon Dam as a water source option. The destruction of Aboriginal heritage, rare rainforest on sandstone, koala habitat, endangered platypus and a range of flora species would be a backward step in ▶ Continued on next page
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