Let the Trees Live
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WE’RE APPEALING TO YOU... BECAUSE GOVERNMENT IS FAILING US
It costs money to destroy the environment and it costs money to protect it. Our law in its wisdom allows destruction by the public purse and protection at private expense.
And so community groups working for ecological justice must fundraise. Here is why KORS' campaign deserves your support.
This appeal is to kick-start a LEGAL FIGHTING FUND for the TREES
Another route can still be considered.
All funds will be used to pay legal costs and gather independent expert opinions on what is the least impact route.
Please help us to defend the environment in this challenge the flawed and hopelessly out-of-date environmental impact assessment legislation that underpins this and all of the Victorian Government’s decisions on environment.
It is proposed to sacrifice all the trees and country to allow traffic to travel faster for 12 kilometres.
Since its beginning KORS has advocated for an independent and open route review. We continue to do so. Also, we have found a route shadowing the existing highway that we think would be the most environmentally and culturally fitting and offers the least environmental impact. We want this tested by a proper review.
www.fixfreewayfiasco.org
The Victorian Supreme Court has found that destruction caused by widening of the Western Highway is legal. Subsequently KORS Inc took legal advice and decided as a community to challenge the decision in defence of the natural and ancient cultural environment. That is, we appealed that decision.
But of course, the price of justice is high. Even with an amazing pro bono lawyer, associated expenses—the printing of court books; the lodging of Freedom of Information requests; applications to be heard in Court—all are far from cheap.
Looking at the updated information, we do not to accept a deviation from the existing highway is necessary. It would bulldoze carve scrape and explode through natural countryside for 5.7 kilometres. The path until now has been somewhat sleepy. So sleepy that now it sustains 90 precious large old gumtrees of which many are 500 years old; we find threatened habitat and ecosystems. Orchids, spring soaks, and the Golden Sun Moth. The eastern Djab Wurrung cultural precinct would have the road's bridge-ramp through it, lifting cars high enough from the natural terrain and close enough to the magnificent hollowed birthing tree that passengers could lob their Macca’s trash into the hollow from their windows as they sail up to Ararat at the higher speed limit of 110 kph. The road would be 50 metres wide, and in places run along a trench cut 15 metres deep.
This ridiculous law pretending to protect the environment is just a permit system for destruction, pushing climate closer to unlivable and species closer to extinction while enabling mega-projects funded by the public purse. If we succeed we will establish precedent and begin to turn around the ship of corporate short-termism, and give the Victorian environment half a chance in the twenty-first century.
It costs money to destroy the environment and it costs money to protect it. Our law in its wisdom allows destruction by the public purse and protection at private expense.
And so community groups working for ecological justice must fundraise. Here is why KORS' campaign deserves your support.
This appeal is to kick-start a LEGAL FIGHTING FUND for the TREES
Another route can still be considered.
All funds will be used to pay legal costs and gather independent expert opinions on what is the least impact route.
Please help us to defend the environment in this challenge the flawed and hopelessly out-of-date environmental impact assessment legislation that underpins this and all of the Victorian Government’s decisions on environment.
It is proposed to sacrifice all the trees and country to allow traffic to travel faster for 12 kilometres.
Since its beginning KORS has advocated for an independent and open route review. We continue to do so. Also, we have found a route shadowing the existing highway that we think would be the most environmentally and culturally fitting and offers the least environmental impact. We want this tested by a proper review.
www.fixfreewayfiasco.org
The Victorian Supreme Court has found that destruction caused by widening of the Western Highway is legal. Subsequently KORS Inc took legal advice and decided as a community to challenge the decision in defence of the natural and ancient cultural environment. That is, we appealed that decision.
But of course, the price of justice is high. Even with an amazing pro bono lawyer, associated expenses—the printing of court books; the lodging of Freedom of Information requests; applications to be heard in Court—all are far from cheap.
Looking at the updated information, we do not to accept a deviation from the existing highway is necessary. It would bulldoze carve scrape and explode through natural countryside for 5.7 kilometres. The path until now has been somewhat sleepy. So sleepy that now it sustains 90 precious large old gumtrees of which many are 500 years old; we find threatened habitat and ecosystems. Orchids, spring soaks, and the Golden Sun Moth. The eastern Djab Wurrung cultural precinct would have the road's bridge-ramp through it, lifting cars high enough from the natural terrain and close enough to the magnificent hollowed birthing tree that passengers could lob their Macca’s trash into the hollow from their windows as they sail up to Ararat at the higher speed limit of 110 kph. The road would be 50 metres wide, and in places run along a trench cut 15 metres deep.
This ridiculous law pretending to protect the environment is just a permit system for destruction, pushing climate closer to unlivable and species closer to extinction while enabling mega-projects funded by the public purse. If we succeed we will establish precedent and begin to turn around the ship of corporate short-termism, and give the Victorian environment half a chance in the twenty-first century.
Organizer
KORS Inc
Organizer
Dobie, VIC