Filed under: Barossa, Biodiversity, Development, Environment, Gawler, Habitat, Mike Rann, Paul Holloway, Planning, Politics, Sustainability, Urban Growth Boundary, Urban Sprawl, ugb | Tags: Environmental Impacts, Gawler East, Inconvenient Truths for SA State Cabinet, Lend Lease, Planning, sustanability, 30 Year Plan, gawler, Public Lecture, Water use and reuse
Great to see there are some people out there who are joining the dots between climate change, urban sprawl and water security!
There’s to be a public lecture upstairs at the Gawler Arms on Thursday 7th February, 7.30pm:
Speakers are
Michael Doherty, giving former US Vice President Al Gore’s global warming talk
Paul Downton, Award-winning architect, on the environmental impact of urban sprawl
Chris Marles, Manager Commercial Development SA Water, on managing water use and retention in a sustainable way during the planning process
Hope they’ve invited some Ministers!
Filed under: Environment, Gawler, Habitat, Planning, Politics, South Australia, Sustainability, Urban Growth Boundary, Urban Sprawl, ugb | Tags: Carbon Neutral, Carbon Neutrality, Gawler East, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Lend Lease, Mike Rann, Paul Holloway, Planning, sustanability, 30 Year Plan, gawler, SA Carbon Neutral Pretenders, State Cabinet
How very short-sighted and disappointing that Minister Holloway has decided not only to extend the urban growth boundary but throw in an extra 79 Ha at Evanston Gardens without any consultation whatsoever!
We read with amusement yesterday that Mike Rann is aiming to make his state cabinet ‘carbon neutral’. He is quoted as saying that cabinet ministers produce an estimated 3,000 tonnes of greenhouses gases a year. Hang on a minute – what about all the extra carbon emissions emanating from their decision to allow thousands of fringe houses which will only be accessible by car?
If the state government were seriously concerned about carbon emissions they would have calculated the ‘true carbon cost’ of extending the urban growth boundary into areas like Concordia and Gawler East, where houses will be far from the city and unserviced by public transport. How different would that decision be with some ‘carbon-transparency’ involved?
‘Consultation’ without asking the public what they think, ‘Carbon Neutrality’ divorced from the consequences of cabinet decisions – At the moment it’s all just empty rhetoric and media spin from Mike Rann’s brigade of ‘Carbon-Neutral Pretenders’ aka State Cabinet.
