MANY across our community and beyond will be calling for the fine print when the inevitable debate erupts in the new year over the proposal to dispose of Sydney’s garbage in the boilers at Mt Piper power station.
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It is already of concern the revelation that Lithgow Council was not even consulted prior to the announcement and a cynic might note that the late year announcement came too late to be even aired in council.
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There are big questions to be answered - particularly do we want to be known as the final destination for metropolitan garbage and, as is already being asked, is this a convenient get out for Glayyds’s government after a deeply unpopular similar plan for western Sydney?
Years ago the then Labor government sought to locate a Sydney toxic waste incinerator in our area – a plan that quickly collapsed under the weight of public outrage.
In more recent years a commercial consortium wanted to bring city waste to our old mine sites, again rejected by council after public backlash.
That time council was the consent authority; worryingly this time it will be a government decision.
Paul Toole is surely aware of the implications from when the greyhound row cost his party the ‘únlosable’ Orange by election.
Deeply unpopular local issues can tend to do that. Battle lines are surely being drawn so watch this space in 2018.
Never ending appeal
NO prizes for guessing what will again be our area’s most popular visitor attraction over the Summer holiday period. Early arrivals are already flooding into the Lake Lyell recreation park camp sites.
The hugely popular location is routinely booked out as such times but there’s always plenty of room for day trippers. Just upstream from Lyell the caravan fraternity will also be heading for Lake Wallace in number that just increase every year, boosting the Wallerawang economy.
Why now?
ONE of the more surprising listings in the classifieds in the Mercury in recent days was the call for submissions on a proposal to list Eskbank House on the State Heritage Register. Surprising because it’s one of the most historically important pioneering structures in the region, in similar league to Hartley Court House and the Zig Zag. Wonder why this is only happening now.
The turnaround
HERE we are heading into the Summer Solstice, the longest day (in daylight terms) of the years. It’s all downhill from there to the ‘longest night’and that’s really not a happy prospect.