Ihr Lieben,
ich bekomme regelmäßig den Newsletter von Birgit Bradtke von http://www.kimberleyaustralia.com/
In der heutigen Ausgabe war eine sehr beunruhigende Meldung, die ich gern (mit Birgits Erlaubnis, die ich vorher eingeholt habe) hier veröffentlichen würde, damit sich mehr Leute daran beteiligen können.
Für alle, die nicht erst den ganzen englischen Text durchlesen wollen: es geht um eine Petition gegen den Bau einer Bauxit-Mine und eines Gaswerks in den Kimberleys. Die Online-Petition findet ihr unter
https://secure.wilderness.org.au/cyberactivist/…cyberaction.php
Danke für eure Hilfe und ein schönes Wochenende,
Gwenee
Und hier die Original-Nachricht:
A perfect storm is brewing over the Kimberley
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This isn't about the weather. This isn't even my line. I stole it of the website of the Wilderness Society.
The planned bauxite mining development on the Mitchell Plateau is one of several projects of massive disaster scale that are looming above us.
Bauxite mining is strip mining. Big parts of the plateau could disappear, and with them the "sponge" that stores the wet season water and keeps the rivers and creeks and falls up there flowing until late into the dry season.
It's the sponge that enables the unique ecosystem and the many endemic species in it to exist. Once the sponge goes, everything goes, including the rainforests and the plant and animal species in them.
(This is not even taking into account yet the effects of pollution, of introduction of feral weeds, the increased traffic and all the other negative impacts of mining development.)
And there are more species we may have to wave good bye...
Our government has expressed a very strong commitment to large scale industrialisation and agricultural development across the Kimberley. Decisions are made over the heads of the people who live here and will be affected by it. And the decisions are made and projects pushed ahead with total disregard for environmental and even native title issues.
The government intends to compulsory acquire whatever land it needs for its plans, and it doesn't care what that means for humpback whales, dugongs and flat back turtles.
As our premier announced, a massive gas plant is to be built on Prices Point on the Dampier Peninsula.
But as the Wilderness Society points out towards the bottom of that page:
"There are still legal processes including negotiations with Traditional Owners and environmental impact assessments that will need to be undertaken. This is not a done deal!"
People are determined to fight the government all the way, and you can help.
Please spare a moment to sign the online petition https://secure.wilderness.org.au/cyberactivist/…cyberaction.php) to protect the Kimberley from industrialisation
Thank you.
[Beitrag editiert: auf Hinweis eines Einzelnen das "s" hinter Kimberley entfernt... ;)]
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