Community Catch – Up
Dodges Ferry
Okines Community House 7 Sept 2pm till 4pm
Southern Beaches Conservation Society Inc will hold a community catch up at the Okines Community House and SBCS President Angela Marsh says that it is a year since the Copping C Cell development was approved by Sorell Council.
“We get continual questions from locals asking about the C Cell, are we winning? has the battle been lost?.. what has the ‘dump the toxic dump’ campaign achieved? what is the science behind the objections?” says Angela. That is why we are undertaking the Community Catch Up at Okines adjacent to the Dodges Polling Booth.”
Community members from Carlton River, Dodges Ferry & Copping sent over 2,400 letters to the Regional Australia Development Fund (RDAF), and funding for the C cell at Copping, was stopped!
But the C cell continues.
• Council plan to rezone the 707 hectares containing the Copping landfill site to a UTILITY Zone, next to rural agricultural land!
• Southern Waste Solutions (SWS) are proposing other hazardous facilities on the site!
• DIER has put a development ban on the Sorell municipality because the infrastructure cannot support growth and yet the Copping waste site will provide an exponential increase in heavy vehicles on our roads.
Southern Beaches Conservation Society Inc. are urging everyone in the community to come along to the Community Catch-Up – get the latest information – ask questions and have a say in stopping this madness of using the Sorell municipality as the dumping ground for all Tasmanian hazardous waste.
Southern Beaches Conservation Society (SBCS), President Angela Marsh
