A Taiwanese Company - Goldiland Pty Ltd - after destroying waters in their
own region, are currently setting up an intensive prawn farm at
Armstrong Beach,near Sarina, Queensland, Australia. Failures at Local
and State Levels of government have allowed this project to go ahead in a
World Heritage listed Area, amazingly without even lodging an Environmental
Impact Statement! This site is touted, despite public outcry, as the first
of approximately 60 other such prawn farming operations which have, pending
the success of this first site, identified potential sites between
Clairview and Townsville on the Queensland Coast,; and with each site
potentially pumping up to 37,500 cubic meters of waste at each hightide
into the ocean, well, you do the math....
The legislation which, with a stroke of a pen, has allowed this to go ahead
is, also with a stroke of a pen, able to be reversed. Senator Hon. Robert
Hill, Minister for the Environment and Heritage and Leader of the
Government in the Australian Senate, holds that pen which, this very week,
wavers above the page...
If you wish to let Senator Hill know directly how you feel about this state
of affairs, all you need to do is copy and send the below message (and
don't forget to sign your name at the bottom of the letter) to:
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We also ask that you cc Senator Andrew Bartlett, who is also in a position
to help, at the following addresses:
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Also, if you could cc us as well, at the following address, so that we can
keep a tally on the number of responses:
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Finally, if you could forward *this* email to as many people and groups,
both in Australia and World-Wide whom you feel may be interested in
helping, please do so.
Many Thanks,
Bernard Rieux
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Senator Hon. Robert Hill
Minister for the Environment and Heritage
Leader of the Government in the Australian Senate
Commonwealth Parliament Offices,
100 King William Street,
Adelaide SA 5000
Dear Senator Hill,
I wish to register my personal rejection of the proposed intensive prawn
farm at Armstrong Beach, Queensland, by the Taiwanese company, Goldiland
Pty Ltd.
Much public attention has been focused by Government on the need for
environmental preservation, but this project and other similar ones already
proposed have significant potential to inflict irreparable damage to the
world-envied Great Barrier Reef and supporting coastline. The delivery of
unacceptable levels of contaminates into the World Heritage listed waters
of Llewellyn Bay, a Zone B Marine Park and Dugong Sanctuary, must be stopped.
Environmental 'globalisation' precedes corporate globalisation. Surely
Government should recognise this precedence, and act in accordance with it.
I therefore implore the intervention of the Australian Federal Government
to protect this world valued treasure.
Thankyou for your time and concern. A copy of this letter has also been
sent to Senator Andrew Bartlett.
Yours Sincerely,
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