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CCAG Joint Win in Greens Best Community Campaign too |
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Written by Pauline
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Thursday, 29 October 2009 00:00 |
At the 5th Greens Bad Developer Awards 2009 on 23rd October, CCAG were joint winners with Gwandalan-Summerland Point Action Group in the Regional division in recognition of our campaign against wholly inappropriate development on the Liverpool Plains.
The Gwandalan-Summerland Group received a resounding victory in the Land and Environment Court in September, fighting the Dept of Planning's Part 3A OK of the massive Catherine Hill Bay and Gwandalan residential developments. With GSPAG's side supported by the EDO, Justice Lloyd described the proposed land swap a "land-bribe" and threw out the development plans because there was "reasonable apprehension of bias" given that Mr Sartor had entered a memorandum of understanding and a deed with the developer.
We thank NSW Greens for their unstinting support and congratulate GSPAG on their win against this wholly unsound and fatally-flawed legislation. |
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Last Updated on Sunday, 01 November 2009 21:31 |
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CCAG Wins Bush Spirit Award! |
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Written by rod
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Sunday, 01 November 2009 07:50 |
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 CCAG are delighted to announce that we have been awarded the NSW Tidy Towns Bush Spirit Award 2010 for category D (4,000 - 10,000 people).
We are very grateful for the recognition as we fight to save prime agricultural land and Keep Australia Beautiful at the same time! Our thanks to the people on Gunnedah Council who nominated us and NSW Tidy Towns for their support. |
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Last Updated on Sunday, 01 November 2009 09:33 |
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Written by Pauline
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Thursday, 29 October 2009 08:48 |
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The Land & Environment Court has reserved its decision in a landmark legal case which will decide if NSW Minister for Mineral Resources Ian Macdonald breached the Mining Act when he granted BHP Billiton its $100 million exploration licence over farmland at Caroona. The case was heard before Senior Judge Justice Preston.
In a two-day hearing in Sydney on 26 & 27 October, lawyers for CCAG argued that the Minister had failed to comply with the Act in a number of ways in issuing EL6505 to BHP. CCAG are seeking to have the licence declared invalid.
In his summing up, Mr Bruce McClintock SC for CCAG told the Judge: "There seems to have been a serious degree of confusion within the Department as to what was going on. It is extremely easy to comply with the relevant sections of the Mining Act and it is clear that the Minister has not done so."
A decision in this important case is expected before the end of the year. |
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Last Updated on Thursday, 29 October 2009 20:43 |
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$100 billion food industry eats mining for dinner |
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Written by Pauline
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Friday, 30 October 2009 20:53 |
 An independent report for Australia's Food and Grocery Council has found that despite global challenges, agriculture and food manufacturing have increased their contribution to Australia's GDP yet again.
The report also highlights that our food industry employs 315,000 people - nearly half of them in rural and regional Australia - feeds over 60 million people worldwide and contributed $49 billion last year to international trade.
The full report by KPMG shows how vital Australia's agrifood business are to the health and prosperity of Australia and all Australians. If the Tasmanian government can legislate to protect agricultural land and food production from inappropriate development, surely its about time NSW woke up and did the same! |
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Last Updated on Friday, 30 October 2009 21:09 |
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Minister Macdonald Warns of Grave Threat to Food |
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Written by Pauline
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Friday, 23 October 2009 17:35 |
The same minister who has willingly placed the Liverpool Plains under threat from coal and gas mining, is currently wringing his hands over the parlous state of the world's food security and urging farmers to grow more! 
Whilst we welcome Mr Macdonald's acknowledgment of the looming problem, his gung-ho attitude to granting exploration licences to coal and gas mine the Liverpool Plains prime agricultural land food-bowl smacks of hypocrisy.
We ask the question - if Minister Macdonald is genuine on this issue, surely he would cease all mining-related activities until a comprehensive, independent water study is completed, and the grave risks to our food and water security posed by mining on these fertile lands are properly understood? |
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Last Updated on Monday, 26 October 2009 06:50 |
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