This obnoxious residue

Letters to anyone interested,
The Examiner Launceston. 2/8/2013

I would dearly like to see the Examiner compile their own gutsy report on the river and other numerous issues instead of confining itself to the guidelines of others.

The report by Alison Andrews (Examiner July 23rd) reveals clearly the result of people we have allocated to positions that they are not in any way equipped to hold.

I firmly believe a count should be made on just how many of these ‘professionals’ are drawing salary on the pretext of caring for the Tamar’s many problems; surely we should by now be living along the beautiful Blue Danube instead of a mixture of our own faeces plus other unidentified materials that surely must present a challenge on health issues any time soon …

… Unless serious handling of this now obnoxious residue is put in a safe place with respect for the long-term dangers that really lay at risk from this point on.

In the past there has been not one person in office that has recognised this issue. Just dredge it up and put it on the banks free for all to share, or worse still, let’s shake the bottle; raking the trash so it can be shared around all the river dwellers before returning to home base … which is exactly where it is.

But the seriousness of the problem is certainly spread wider.

An inability to attract knowledge on important issues really is a strong part of the problem that is drawing Launceston ever downward in most cases by the severe lack of understanding of the task in hand. You must really question the modern day credentials of clean hand ‘professionals’ that are far from being action-bound – but great on spiel.

Most people believe Launceston has suffered its long sentence under all these structures and bodies, especially the Launceston City Council for its huge lack of foresight in spending copious funds on luxuries which were needless then and burdens today; while sadly there is even more of the same to follow on the South-Esk.

Launceston has never been lower on its knees than it is today.

That is why I think the present system has seriously failed us …

Someone must be appointed to begin the long haul back.

Signed,
The Town Weeper,
Launceston.