AUSTRALIA needs to start prioritising community safety and human life over the red and green tape which is strangling our nation, says the federal MP for Gippsland, Darren Chester.
The MP was referencing the “discovery” of native grasses that has hijacked an essential project to extend and widen the Bairnsdale Aerodrome runway in Gippsland, Victoria. Chester says the project is “all about future proofing this critical asset”.
“Remember, as the Black Summer crisis unfolded, the aerodrome was critical for the response and immediate recovery effort with fixed wing aircraft and helicopters from emergency services and the Australian Defence Force providing vital services,” he says.
“Every week it is used for urgent medical transfers to metropolitan hospitals and we were able to secure $9.9 million in February 2022 for the much-needed runway works from the previous Federal Government.”
But government environmentalists have now “discovered” native grasses near the existing runway, which has triggered an Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act intervention, which has delayed the project indefinitely and will require ratepayers to pay millions of dollars for environmental offsets, if the project ever proceeds.
This is typical of projects across Australia that are being hijacked by the green bureaucracy, as a previous Cairns News report on a multi-million-dollar aged care centre in regional NSW revealed.
“The (airport) project has effectively stalled and after three years, nothing has been built as construction prices keep going up. Who knows what the final cost to taxpayers will be?” said Chester.
“We had to beg the Albanese Government to extend the timelines for the grant while East Gippsland Shire Council (EGSC) has tried to meet the ridiculous environmental conditions.
“The grant money is apparently still there but it has been transferred to the State Government and EGSC has to negotiate with state bureaucrats and get formal agreements before any work can actually start.
“It’s a complete farce to place native grass ahead of human life on a section of land which has been heavily disturbed by slashing and construction activities for decades.
“The corridors set aside for infrastructure like roads and airports should be exempt from these extreme laws, if community safety is at risk.
“Whether its extending an airport runway at an existing airport, or widening a road to improve safety and productivity within the road reserve, we shouldn’t be adding more than 30% to the cost on infrastructure by onerous environmental offset laws which achieve absolutely nothing for biodiversity and sustainability, in relation to the size of existing parks and conservation areas.”
Chester is right. Environmental regulations are a plague on Australia’s economy – what is left of it.
We should also point out that native grasses are absolutely not “endangered” in Australia. Multiple nurseries across the country grow the wide variety of native grasses, which are frequently used in drought-resistant landscaping.
It is rank stupidity to stop essential projects on the bases of someone discovering native grass at a site.
Weird how these “environmentalists” never push against #GloBaalist construction projects.
Probably an excuse not to create another huge debt, Victoria is down about 100 billion and they still don’t have a SYD-MEL fast train, it’s pathetic. The train would do the job, talked about since the 80’s probably much longer. China would just laugh. So pathetic. How did they manage to carve up 100 billion, through deliberate and intentional incompetence that’s how.
The trees would grow faster if there was more CO2 and the energy would be cheaper if they burned more coal so they have a way out of spiralling debt but they are too retarded and corrupt to do it. They are relying on hyper-inflation to wipe out the debt, and get us down to $2/hour global equivalent, as well as replacement theory, you can see they have been working on that in the UK for many decades and now even the political scapegoat puppets are muslim like previous PM Ricky Sunak and the mayor of London. The ALP is way too dumb to do anything to get us out of the mess they created, the entire current lot should quit in shame, for frauding everyone as they have been doing for so long.
Regarding Smithys friend he should get a lawyer to take a look at tortious interference charges for the POS who made all that trouble and then withdrew to get her to pay damages and all associated fees, it’s worth a try.
“Native grasses” commenter Kelly.. not actually an indigenous ‘cultural’ site.!! Neither are they at crisis point of extinction. Such selfish attitudes of self-indulgence over pitiful excuses for restricting essential and genuinely critical expansion of a facility that may one day save YOUR life or the life of a loved one. Expand your heart to include generosity & compassion… grasses will grow again.. human life does not… the choice is simple.!!
Good. Any development that threatens Aboriginal cultural sites should be stopped under environmental protection laws. The Australians voted for the government that is stopping progress, so they deserve to live in the dark ages and lose progress.
The world has in fact gone mad. My mate has been held up for 2 years due to a lady who needlessly complained about my mates small development plans for his house & then when crunch time came & she had to front the due legal processes she withdrew the complaint which then caused untold problems for my friend, more holdups and a serious depletion of his cash resources & with more holdups he simply has given up. Many such objections launched by people in this country are selfish & pointless, needless, & a pain in the butt with unthinking people always wanting to interfere in others life’s when in reality they have no right moral reason to do so.
Stop them mowing the grass!
It seems it is not endangered, dying out, I am sure they have no intent to destroy it all. I bet they leave the rest of it alone.
Maybe I am in trouble for what I have done? I have removed 4m x 3m of grass, for a construction project too…a greenhouse. Maybe there were native grasses…MAYBE I DON’T CARE!
Some arseholes really need to get a life.
Why then aren’t people charged for their criminal act of mowing their native grass lawns ?
Now we have to protect a small piece of grass.
The voice which is pro grass is a minority.
Where did the volume come from.
Shut those damned greenies down.
Darren Chester should be able to beat those jerks.
The question is will he?
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