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lange3
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| 05/08/2007 2:58 PM |
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| Thanks to Rob and team for a great initiative. "For evil to succeed 'tis sufficient only that good men (and women) do nothing!" |
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Rob Munro
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| 05/08/2007 8:18 PM |
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Burke?
All the help and support is appreciated by many. I am in "bewildered awe" over the level of support being shown by the community as a whole. I am yet to find a "Yes" man or women on the ground in LBN. Even the Estate Agents are against it! Now you know you are in trouble.
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Ginny
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| 05/09/2007 11:43 AM |
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Rob, Im writing direct to you because when I send stuff to the savesharkbay site it comes back " no such address"
Ive contacted Fiona Cghisholm to write a piece.. she replied immediately and this is what she said:
thank you for your email. Yes we are very concerned about Shark's Bay and feel as strongly as you do. I was horrified by the two pieces, quite obvious press releases, that appeared in the Argus and the Times and were written as though the case was open and shut and everything was going full steam ahead. I thought after all the protests generated nearly a year ago, the development had died a death. It seems it has not.
Last year about September I approached both John Yeld (Argus) and Melanie Gosling (Times) about the development. Melanie wrote a piece and though Yeld was too busy, he had a colleague write something. We supplied them with flower pictures which we had taken the week before for an article for a magazine called Diversions. They had wanted 10 good pix to go with the article and we had exactly one hour of sunlight to try to capture the glory of the hillside last spring, ablaze with blue flax. David actually got a couple of good pix showing the flowers down in the very area that is to be developed with a pic of a yacht in the distance to show the locality. Quite useful for future protesting articles.
I haven't written anything about the latest crisis and after your letter will need to give it some thought. I obviously need some facts and some people who are prepared to speak out against it. Who can you suggest? Yourself?
I will check out the website to see the approach of the protestors taken so far.
Get back to me if you have some names of people.
So it sounds very much as though she'd do a good thoughful piece- can I give her your name and contact details to talk to? She hadnt read the website yet when she wrote this- all the info she needs is there of course, but she'd probably like a quote from someone. You? Ginny Swart
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seabird
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| 03/14/2008 11:31 PM |
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I submitted an objection without reading the 'guidelines for objecting',........ my first response being anger, so my apologies for ranting! Not too sure where this response belongs!
I do however think that this is a very emotional topic, since I will never be 'moved emotionally' by seeing a mansion on a hill, or an exotic car! It is nature that moves me, to tears at times......it is nature that uplifts and restores my soul....... The glistening blue that beckons us to dream; the quiet nature that is supported in this pristine environment needs our love and protection, and what is love without any emotion? We realise the need for detailed reports, environmental impact studies, the law and legal rights of land-owners etc. which have to be considered, aswell as a calm headed approach...... but all the facts, all the evidence we need, is right before our eyes. Why is it such a battle? Why does this beautiful area need to be permanently and irreparably damaged for 100 mansions? Why does the developer not 'see' beyond the dollar signs, see what we see, and do the right thing........withdraw his application? Why, we will never understand?...He will be compensated in many ways...... It does not require any IQ to make money from this beautiful piece of land but it takes a conscious being to turn away from the money, in order to protect this beautiful, fragile piece of earth, that sustains the most vulnerable of living creatures, birds and plants...... Please dont develop this land..... Please just leave it alone...
Thankyou to Rob and all those committed to protecting this area!
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