Way off track …

Do you ever think it will be explained how a person like Paul Lennon was the big-noting Politician that approved this fancy new Three Capes Walking Track

Why does this wimpishy lot of Tas Gov&Co, keep spending such unwarranted amounts on a Walking Track of all things?

Why should a track take such precedence over other areas, where, money, the Real McCoy it should be, of course, is needed?

How many more decades is the old ‘Tourism for Tas’ going to be allowed to justify such a fair whack-up when lives are spent say on a waiting list of some kind or other, or looking for a job where none exist; tourism, tourism, tourism, rammed down our throats for years, always for money.

How the hell did one of those dimwitted Tas Gov&Co Ministers get this Track to keep developing since ‘07, has got me beat, considering, the other thing they are all too wimpified to keep openly or not openly supporting is the endless pulp mill-nearly-could be *yawn, honestly i can recall carefree days before the words ‘pulp mill’ were big tatts stuck on my brains.

I really believe it must come to a end, so we can, get on with it, the hard stuff … suburbs are in trouble all around Tas, Cities are in strife, and it looks like a lot of businesses are going close down.

Hard hitting us for another cost? It can’t be done; we already pay over the odds for everything,

The people of Tassie will not put up with this crude attempt to Govern our State into such hell, where people can’t afford food somedays.

Consider the high cost and pollies and their perks and their staffing? Why do they go on overseas trips in this wonderful age of computer telecommunications?

People been walking alright around Tassie for over 40,000 years; why the rush now for a special expensive place to walk … we already fork out enough for footpaths.

MINISTER CALLED ON TO CHANGE THREE CAPES PROPOSAL
Redirect Portion of Federal Funds to Low Impact Iconic Tasman Walk
Cassy O’Connor MP
Greens Environment spokesperson
Thursday, 17 March 2011

The Tasmanian Greens today urged Environment Minister Brian Wightman to listen to the people of Tasmania, and in particular the people of the Tasman Peninsula, who want the proposal adapted, reduced in scale and not propped up by corporate funding at the expense of the wider Tasmanian community’s enjoyment of the Tasman Peninsula National Park.

Greens Environment spokesperson Cassy O’Connor MP said that Mr Wightman should listen to community opinion and negotiate with his federal counterparts to redirect a proportion of the federal funding allocated to the Three Capes proposal, to a modified and scaled down alternative proposal, as well as also being available for maintenance of current existing tracks in the Tasman Peninsula National Park.

“Minister Wightman has confirmed there is some flexibility in the Federal funding allocated to the controversial Three Capes Track proposal, so we urge that it be adapted and reduced in scale, to lessen its ecological impact,” Ms O’Connor said.

“The Greens remain concerned that the Minister may have decided to proceed with the development of exclusive private commercial development and new tracks before having completed the Environmental Impact Statement which is needed to evaluate any environmental impacts of such developments.”

“Tasmania’s national parks belong to all Tasmanians and should continue to belong to all Tasmanians in perpetuity,” Ms O’Connor said.