*Pic: Geoff Law
“Tower height included … private document.”
“Tower height excluded … public document.”
Respect The Mountain were shocked to learn the heights of the towers for Section 2 of the proposed Cable Car development. Images supplied to Respect The Mountain show heights up to 75m for the development – greater in height than Tasmania’s tallest building, Wrest Point Casino.
The heights are marked on a plan labeled ‘Line Profile – Section 2’ with majority shareholder,Bullwheel IC3’s logo prominently featured in the top right corner.
Spokesperson Jason Turvey, questioned why the heights were hidden from the public. “Mt Wellington Cableway Co (MWCC) were more than happy to disclose technical data such as cabin capacity figures, rope diameters, travel times and speeds, as well as the length of the cable car and elevation so it seems odd that they would leave of information about the heights of the towers when obviously they had that information available.”
The three towers vary between 36 to 75m in height. The first tower in South Hobart will be 75m, the second 45m and the tower above the Organ Pipes will be 36m. The current Observation Shelter at the summit is approximately 5.5m in height.
“The heights are enormous! To give perspective it’s like having a Wrest Point Tower (73m), followed by a Hydro Tasmania building (47m) and then a Marine Board Building (39m) sitting above the Organ Pipes.”
It is suspected that the heights were not revealed to the public for fear of further damaging their ‘social licence’ which has recently come under scrutiny.
MWCC’s Facebook page had recorded 560 likes in under 11 days and was averaging 1000 likes every 18 days when there was no media coverage of the cable car. This was greater than during their breakfast launch in April this year as well as their survey in 2013 – both of which received a lot of media coverage. When this was pointed out to them, their rate of likes dropped to 181 over the last 10 days.
“We are aware of overseas companies that will ‘Like’ pages with fake profiles for as little as $30/1000 Likes.”
Businesses employ these services to give the impression that they have a large number of satisfied customers.
“The consistency at which the MWCC Facebook page is receiving Likes appears to be to regular and clockwork. There may be other factors that could produce such outcomes but the timing of these past events suggests that there are a lot of MWCC ‘supporters’ who aren’t from Hobart, yet alone Australia!”
Facebook does not condone such practices and regularly attempts to flush out false accounts.
It is not the first time that MWCC has broken Facebook’s Terms & Conditions with false accounts already being shut down and threatening comments towards non-supporters remaining on their page until being reported to Facebook.
• Earlier on Tasmanian Times, ROCC: Organ Pipes ‘under threat’
• Damon Thomas: Council refutes claim of ‘Leak’ ( ABC report of the ‘Leak’ claim ).
