David Leigh
This woman is a Christian who home schools her children, lives on organically grown food and keeps herself to herself. When she asked Forest Enterprises if they would be spraying, they answered in the affirmative. She asked if the spraying would affect her property and they said they could not guarantee that it would not and that she should not drink from her water supply. I can see Howard and Michelle Carpenter all over again.
FORET ENTERPRISES is about to purchase 75 acres in the head of the Ringarooma valley. This wooded property is adjacent to that owned by a single mother of 3 children.
This woman is a Christian who home schools her children, lives on organically grown food and keeps herself to herself. When she asked Forest Enterprises if they would be spraying, they answered in the affirmative. She asked if the spraying would affect her property and they said they could not guarantee that it would not and that she should not drink from her water supply. I can see Howard and Michelle Carpenter all over again.
The property being sold surrounds her land on 3 sides and is higher. It is also in the headwaters of the Ringarooma, already heavily logged and under plantation. Not only is this poor woman in peril but the whole river system is endangered from poisoning and from drying up.
Downstream, dairy farmers irrigate lush green pastures to produce the milk we drink, the cheese we eat. There are beef cattle also in that valley and vegetables. I think we need to make a stand here and stop this willful destruction of our environment, before it gets totally out of hand.
One thought is for a group purchase of the land, another is a protest.
David Leigh
