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6 February 2012
PORT HINCHINBROOK - TELL THE TRUTH !
SILTED CANALS NOT DUE TO NATURAL DISASTER !
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July 2011
Phoenix the newsletter of the Alliance to Save Hinchinbrook
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MEDIA RELEASE Thursday 30th April 2009
Alliance to Save Hinchinbrook Inc.
‘PORT HINCHINBROOK’ - SEADUMPING REFUSED !
This week the newly combined Queensland Department of Environment and Resource Management has refused an Application by Port Hinchinbrook Services Pty Ltd for Resource Entitlement for the Sea Dumping of dredge spoil into the world heritage listed Hinchinbrook Passage.
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PHOENIX : Newsletter of the Alliance to Save Hinchinbrook
February 2009
PHOENiX : Newsletter of the Alliance to Save Hinchinbrook
June 2008
Extra notes to assist in writing submissions to the Hinchinbrook Management Plan
PHOENIX : Newsletter of the Alliance to Save Hinchinbrook
March 2008
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Phoenix : ASH Newsletter September 2007
ASH MEDIA RELEASE : 25 August 2007
Port Hinchinbrook residents wish Port Hinchinbrook woes onto local Council
ASH MEDIA RELEASE : 7 August 2007
GIRRIMAY NATIONAL PARK DECLARED: ADJACENT SPOIL PONDS HAVE TO GO
TO ASH MEMBERS and SUPPORTERS and ALL FRIENDS OF HINCHINBROOK ISLAND
KEITH WILLIAMS TO GET HINCHINBROOK ISLAND ??
ASH, as the local group for the Hinchinbrook area, seeks your assistance in lobbying The Honourable Craig Wallace, the new Minister for Natural Resources and Water (Queensland), to not transfer the Special Lease for Hinchinbrook Island Resort to a Keith Williams company.
View & Print our most recent letter to the Minister of Natural Resources and Water.
The Environment Minister's office has written (letter dated 3 May 2007) referring us to the Department of Natural Resources and Water (DNRW), which has control of the Special Lease even though it is within the Hinchinbrook Island National Park.
The same letter also advised the Environment Minister's reliance on the Hinchinbrook Island National Park Management Plan (HINPMP) and the conditions attached to the Lease.
The Hinchinbrook Island National Park Management Plan (available on the net - just type in the full title) is silent on some aspects of the lease (eg no reference to water supply or quarrying) and interpretable on others.
The current Special Lease conditions are minimal or obsolete, and are no doubt being renegotiated right now by the developer and the DNRW.
An earlier letter (16 Jan 2007) from the Environment Minister's office informed us that the EPA had obtained a court order to force the developer to dump dredge spoil only in a location determined by the EPA.
The necessity for court action as a mechanism of control over developer actions provides little confidence that site works on Hinchinbrook Island would be carried out in accordance with management plans or lease conditions.
Keith Williams has also reportedly obtained control over the ferry service to Hinchinbrook Island, creating a complete monopoly over access to Hinchinbrook Island.
Please write urgently, in your own words, to the Minister for Natural Resources and Water, expressing your concern about the future of Hinchinbrook Island and Channel under this proposed access monopoly:
The Honourable Craig WallaceMinister for Natural Resources and Water
PO Box 15456,
CITY EAST QLD 4002
Ministerial email address: NRW@ministerial.qld.gov.au
Electoral email address: Thuringowa@parliament.qld.gov.au;
phone : (07) 3896 3688 Fax : (07) 3210 6214
12 April 2007
Media Release - Hinchinbrook Island Resort - To Be or Not To Be pdf
29 December 2006
NOTICE TO MEMBERS and FRIENDS The breakwalls under construction at Oyster Point are sinking ungracefully, with potential consequences for
OK, we were expecting it - we did say this would be an unacceptable experiment in the GBR WHA - but it's still amazing to see it happening!
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Alliance to Save Hinchinbrook Media ReleaseOYSTER POINT “DANGER: FALLING ROCKS” !!The breakwater walls under construction at Oyster Point are falling into the deep soft silts of the Hinchinbrook Passage.
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Alliance to Save Hinchinbrook Media ReleaseWHO WILL PAY FOR SINKING BREAKWALLS ?The cost of the subsidence of the breakwater walls under construction at Oyster Point has blown out. The increase in rock required due to the walls collapsing and sinking has resulted in a sharp increase in the cost, and has pushed the soft seabottom sideways into the dredged area.
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MEDIA RELEASE : Thursday 19 October - Alliance to Save Hinchinbrook MINISTER OF WHALES AND PARROTS ABANDONS DUGONGS
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MEDIA RELEASE : Thursday 19 October - Alliance to Save Hinchinbrook Inc. Commonwealth Minister fails Hinchinbrook Wildlife
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MEDIA RELEASE Monday 11th September - Alliance to Save Hinchinbrook Inc . BREAKWATERS PROPONENT RELEASES DOCUMENTS - ON WEB NOW
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September 7th 2006: Media Release - Public Bluffed out of Access to Public Documents
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May 2006: See: Phoenix - Newsletter of the Alliance to Save Hinchinbrook
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5th February 2006: See: Media Release from the Alliance to Save Hinchinbrook HINCHINBROOK BREAKWATERS CASE FINAL HEARING THIS WEEK
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6th October 2005: See : Media Release from the Alliance to Save Hinchinbrook ASH applauds EPA decision to reject Port Hinchinbrook Stage II
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3rd June 2005: See media release from the Alliance to Save Hinchinbrook (ASH) "BREAKWATER WALLS SPELL TROUBLE FOR DUGONG HABITAT"
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Read about the history of the campaign: Phoenix : The Alliance to Save Hinchinbrook's newsletter