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5th September 2009 Hi from Barbara in Oakleigh,
The most immediate threat to Australia's environment from outside our society comes from the oil spill which grows hugely bigger as I email, off the north west coast of Australia. Garrett is saying Australia will do everything possible.So far chemical has been dropped on the spill to break down the oil but what is not patently clear is what the oil dispersant chemical does to the life in the sea. In Riki Ott's book "Not One Drop" about the Exxon Valdez disaster off the coast of Alaska what is written there is that this oil dispersant is so poisonous that you do not use it near coastlines.
Last night on ABC news viewers were shown a container of orange water collected from the disaster area. We dont know what this means. However the meaning of Martin Ferguson' message was loud and clear and that there was no pending environmental catastrophe. In the same breath he said he was not the minister for the environment.
Despite the financial and energy yield of oil my understanding is that we have been most cavalier in preparing for and preventing accidents.
We the community needs to gather all the intelligence we can and pressure for safeguards. Not being computerised I am contactable on 03 9569 4273 or in kind of way through WEM.24th August 2009 Gillian Collins
It is with great sadness that I forward this e-mail to you. I am beyond words at the moment, because there is so much wrong with this approval. We have a Minister for the Destruction of the Environment, and that's a fact.
'Dear all, in case you haven't seen this (I've just checked the website)
Minister Garrett late last week has approved the Frankston bypass - without requiring a tunnel: http://www.environment.gov.au/cgi-bin/epbc/epbc_ap.pl?name=referral_detail&proposal_id=3480
... this news might make you feel angry.... as some consolation the conditions for Southern Brown Bandicoot are detailed and seem rigorous - requirements for SBB management plan including predator control and predator proof fence to be approved prior to works ... regards Andrew BoothAnd further, 25th August 2009: These words from Michael Leunig (Sunday Age, 22/8/2009) are reflecting my mood today:
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Statistical, democratic, modern man - with his brutal architecture and disgusting politics, his empty, all-consuming entertainments, his fame, greed, perversity, violence, ignorance, speed and conceit; his crappy imperialistic aesthetic, his sick notion of wealth, his cowardly, sadistic war making, his triumphant and brazen dumbing down of culture, his unnatural ways, his unstoppable swarming and wrecking of beauty and nature, his deepening madness and insensitivity, and his exaltation and rewarding of all of these destructive, mass-minded disasters.
Oh dear! How did one get so out of step with the world? Who wants to feel at odds with common humanity? Who wants to be a grouch? Not I. But how do you bear it - this appalling humanity you are part of that causes you such dismay yet is mostly lovely or divine "one-one-on-one"?
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Gillian Collins8 June 2009 Geraldine Robertson
wmnsweb@iprimus.com.auWe aren't talking about nuclear issues much at the moment, but there is an informative anti-nuclear site, always up-to-date, that I use frequently - and have for many years -
Christina Macpherson
Antinuclear Australia
www.antinuclear.net
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