Community Health and Tweed Coast Koala Populations

Community Health The Community Health Centre to be built at Pottsville has been approved by the Tweed Shire Council. This is a NSW Government Project for Community Health (Northern NSW Local Health District) . This is an important initiative for the increasing populations of the Tweed Coast Region, and is deemed to be worth $2.5mill. This Community Health Centre is to be built on Tweed Shire Council owned land, Elizabeth St, Pottsville, next to the  Pottsville …»»

Kings Forest Submissions 2012

Public submissions for the Kings Forest Development were discussed last night at a community public information night in Cabarita, on the Tweed Coast of Northern NSW. Over 60 individuals and representatives of a number of Community Groups and alliances turned up to hear speakers on a wide variety of critical issues, concerning this massive Tweed Coast Development. The peaceful meeting attracted no “hecklers”, and participants were shocked as to the extent of foreseeable problems that …»»

Kings Forest Investment Property – Wetland Habitat Destruction on the Tweed Coast

The Property Investment Market and Residential Development Opportunities, on the Tweed Coast of NE NSW,  rely largely on the following 3 things:- 1) destruction of Threatened Native Wildlife Habitat, 2) Wetland Destruction and 3) increased lack of safeguarding for  Sustainable Social Wellbeing within the Tweed Shire Council area. This is an historically SHAMEFUL situation. The shame is continuing, and soon, more shame will be forthcoming. Not all property investment is shameful. Property investment, when combined …»»

Illegal clearing Cudgen Nature Reserve – a balance of faeries revisited

The illegal clearing of a Koala Habitat and home to other threatened Wildlife species of the Tweed shire in the Northern Rivers of NSW has shed yet more attention on the plight of the Koalas of the Mt Warning Caldera Region of Australia. This illegal clearing, whilst being scrutinised by the National Parks and Wildlife Service NSW, serves to remind us all:-  that fragmented, cleared, degraded Ecosystems and Vegetation Habitats of  Australian Wildlife are still …»»

PK, the Eastern Star and 22 Arrows of Energy

The Northern Rivers of NSW and the Catchments of SE QLD are becoming engulfed by  sprawling infrastructure growth that has been unsustainable for many decades.  Community environmental advocacy and regional social responsibilities are beginning to formulate into political and philosophical voices. See “Coal Seam Gas Debate” 2nd August 2011, ABC TV by reporter Ali Moore.  Also a story about possible aquifer contamination from coal seam gas operations in Qld “ Carcinogens found in coal seam gas …»»