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To: Steve Krieg - Mayor of Lismore
No to the Nationals' Toxic Waste Dump in Blakebrook
Our local Nationals-led council is currently trying to push through a mega waste dump in our backyard at Blakebrook.
The site is just 9kms from our CBD and proposed to accept rubbish from the entire region from Tweed Heads down to Coffs Harbour and inland.
We are a highly flood-prone region and this will be catastrophic to our pristine valleys, forests and farmland each time it floods sending toxins into catchments and water supplies. The health effects upon humans, livestock and wildlife would far outweigh any financial benefit and be a further burden to Federal and State health budgets.
This alone should be enough to deter the use of this site but also the roads leading to and from our region can barely take the traffic as it is. Heavy vehicles will destroy our roads and be a constant burden to us all let alone the extra traffic and pollution generated by them.
Looking at the condition of all local tips to our region it would be easy to assertane which councils will send their rubbish and just how much of it there would be.
Lismore City Council has allocated themselves $1.3 million dollars to do a study on the proposed site at Blakebrook and refuse to listen to the concerns of our community.
Many of us have put forward our objections using the "Your Say" tool the council provides but it never gets published or proven to be of use and the data collected is not transparent.
A local poll on the issue saw 1000 people voting NO and only 45 voted YES to the mega dump – the community doesn't want this toxic waste leaking into our rivers and our backyards, and we need the council to listen and act.
This community deserves to be heard!
We want a thorough review into the process and a commitment not to start any work on the dump until the community has been properly consulted.
The site is just 9kms from our CBD and proposed to accept rubbish from the entire region from Tweed Heads down to Coffs Harbour and inland.
We are a highly flood-prone region and this will be catastrophic to our pristine valleys, forests and farmland each time it floods sending toxins into catchments and water supplies. The health effects upon humans, livestock and wildlife would far outweigh any financial benefit and be a further burden to Federal and State health budgets.
This alone should be enough to deter the use of this site but also the roads leading to and from our region can barely take the traffic as it is. Heavy vehicles will destroy our roads and be a constant burden to us all let alone the extra traffic and pollution generated by them.
Looking at the condition of all local tips to our region it would be easy to assertane which councils will send their rubbish and just how much of it there would be.
Lismore City Council has allocated themselves $1.3 million dollars to do a study on the proposed site at Blakebrook and refuse to listen to the concerns of our community.
Many of us have put forward our objections using the "Your Say" tool the council provides but it never gets published or proven to be of use and the data collected is not transparent.
A local poll on the issue saw 1000 people voting NO and only 45 voted YES to the mega dump – the community doesn't want this toxic waste leaking into our rivers and our backyards, and we need the council to listen and act.
This community deserves to be heard!
We want a thorough review into the process and a commitment not to start any work on the dump until the community has been properly consulted.
Why is this important?
If we don't do something now we will have an environmental disaster on our hands and an ongoing much greater need for funds for disaster recovery from Australian Federal and State coffers.