Local Issue – Clarence Environment Centre

SUBMISSION: to Local Land Services ‘North Coast Natural Resource Management Plan’

Post author:John Edwards
Post published:May 19, 2022
Post category:Local Issue Submission

Having read through the Plan, we are left somewhat disappointed. Given the climate change driven extremes we have encountered over the past 4 – 5 years, we were hoping to find a greater degree of forcefulness, for lack of a better term, in ensuring best practice NRM is occurs across all sectors. Instead, this plan, has the objective to: “Promote the Landscape Restoration Flagship Program as the region’s overarching approach to delivering integrated landscape scale NRM programs ….,” which merely tinkers at the edges of the problem.

SUBMISSION: to the Clarence Valley Community Strategic Plan

Post author:John Edwards
Post published:May 6, 2022
Post category:Local Issue Submission

The Clarence Environment Centre has a proud 32-year record of environmental advocacy, with conservation of the natural environment an absolute priority. As such, we view planning as the key to an ecologically sustainable future.

Having been alerted to the above document privately at the last minute, this submission will be far from comprehensive. However, we would like to make the following observations in relation to the salient points of the Draft.

The water quality crisis update

Post author:John Edwards
Post published:April 5, 2022
Post category:Local Issue

Twelve months on from the delivery of the "Water Quality Crisis” report, another flood, and another announcement from council (5^th March 2022), to the effect that: “Our drinking water storages at Shannon Creek Dam and Nymboida River have received a huge amount of dirty water over the past week. The dirty water will affect our water treatment processes and we unfortunately cannot be certain of the water quality”.

As our earlier report explained, supported by evidence, it is soil disturbance through human activity and bad management that contributes to excessive turbidity, not just heavy rainfall.