By Arkin Mackay
Dam and Blast!
Just when we thought the pressure was off the Mary Valley for a while after the scrapping of Traveston Dam, there's a new threat to the area. A proposal currently being assessed by Gympie Regional Council could see the Moy Pocket quarry in the Sunshine Coast Hinterland become the site for an explosives storage and distribution facility that would provide explosives for extractive industry operations throughout south-east Queensland.
What does this mean?
- Trucks loaded with explosive materials on already dangerous roads (particularly the Bruce Highway and Kenilworth Eumundi Road),
- A hinterland storage facility holding over 80 tonnes of ammonium nitrate and other high explosives
- A terrorism risk that the Sunshine Coast is not equipped for
More info is available on www.stoppress.com.au, along with a quick and easy 'instant objection' generator which will prepare an objection that you can submit to Council before they decide on the application. Your objection needs to reach Gympie Regional Council by August 27th, 2010, so there's not much time!
Check it out... the Mary Valley has had enough!
Hear an interview with an activist at http://www.noosacommunityradio.org/explosive-future-for-moy-pocket/.
Comments
More threats to the area, reported by Noosa Community Radio
http://www.noosacommunityradio.org/kin-kin-quarry-suspended/
http://www.noosacommunityradio.org/coal-mining-threat-to-the-mary-river/
http://www.noosacommunityradio.org/?s=quarry