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The Moorabool News – 14 June, 2022 Page 11
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A new master plan for publicly accessible mineral springs is being prepared by the Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning (DELWP), which wants to hear from the community. In particular, DELWP wants to hear what the community values most about Victoria’s mineral springs, which springs are your favourite and why, how you know where they are located, and how you consume, collect, and store mineral water. There are 39 mineral springs open to the public in Victoria, including at Ballan Mineral Springs Reserve, Blackwood Mineral Springs & Tourist Camp Reserve, and Spargo Creek Mineral Springs Reserve. Feedback will inform the new 10-year master plan, ensuring mineral springs are managed in a way that benefits regional tourism, and supports Traditional Owner aspirations for self-determination. The mineral springs are located on Dja Dja Wurrung, Wadawurrung, and Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung Country, with the majority concentrated within the Central Highlands region around the Daylesford/Hepburn areas. DELWP encourages the community to fill out the Community Survey before 10 July, at www. engage.vic.gov.au/mineral-springs-masterplan. The master plan 2023-2032 is expected to be completed by December this year.
Dear Editor, As recently observed in federal politics, when the general populace disapproves of systems, policies and behaviours, a change in power is instigated. The same fate must be afforded to the inept policies, planning and processes undertaken throughout the Western Victoria Transmission Network Project. The AEMO, AusNet, Mondo, the Victorian Energy & Environment Minister (MP Lily D’Ambrosio), and the ESV have all failed in their duties, care and responsibilities to the communities for the entire length and breadth of this proposed project. The initial inept planning undertaken by AEMO and the scant regard of landowners and communities as Stakeholders in this project was erroneous from the outset. The ill-conceived greenfields development route selection detracted many potential proponents from tendering for this project, as ‘Green Field’ destruction and Social Licence was seen as problematic from the outset. Leaving AusNet, with their cosy relationship with the Andrew’s Government, to obtain the full monopoly of the Victorian Energy Transmission Network. As the wheels are now in motion and no back tracking appears to be considered by the State Government, the community has been relentlessly told to focus on the required EES (Environmental Effects Statement) to have any influence on this ill-conceived project. If being cynical from the outset of a fair EES process, the recent Ombudsman’s Report of the EPA’s handling of the West Gates Toxic
Waste, and its subsequent State Government and Corporate interference, only heightens my cynicism of a FAIR process. The WVNTP is already broken and requires immediate recycling from the rubbish it is, to a community acceptable alternative. Nathan Lidgett Myrniong Dear Editor, The recent report on the EPA (M/News 7 June) and the possible political interference in its decision-making process should set alarm bells ringing and the dead silence on the report from our state MP is completely unacceptable. I believe that toxic dumping will continue after the election of the state government in November and the outer western suburbs will continue to be treated with contempt. Our newly elected federal MP has also been very quiet on the misleading information provided by Ausnet as has our local state MP. It is a sad reflection on our political system when politicians have to be dragged kicking and screaming to do what is right for the people, classic example is the Melton hospital that should have been built 20-years ago and that is just the tip of a very large iceberg of a lack of action over many years. One would hope that the new federal government will provide for the people, or is this wishful thinking? Robert Reid Hopetoun Park
RETHINKING BUSINESS IN A COVID WORLD WORKSHOP
Logo refresh gets go ahead By Lachlan Ellis A new logo that is more accessible for the visually impaired, with the logo to be gradually adopted over the coming years, has been given the go ahead. The ‘Brand Strategy Project Update – Corporate Logo Refresh’ came before Moorabool Shire Council at the 1 June Ordinary Meeting, with a new logo recommended by Council’s communications team after 12 months of stakeholder engagement. While the new logo is quite similar to Council’s current logo, the report stated this could be advantageous as it is “highly recognisable as part of the Shire brand”. Compared to the current logo, it uses exclusively black text to make it more readable, with less spacing, use of sentence case, and left-aligned text also improving readability. The new logo was approved unanimously and will be “progressively rolled out as updates are needed” according to a Council spokesperson.
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