Community Protest to stop clearing of endangered woodland on Penrith ADI site

ADI Cumberland Plains Woodland

ADI Cumberland Plains Woodland

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by StreetCorner
25/09/2011

Western Sydney Community Protest is taking place, with residents demanding that Barry O'Farrell honour his pre-election promise to save & protect the Cumberland Plain Woodlands. Now Planning Minster Brad Hazzard also made this commitment in writing in a comment posted on this site (Streetcorner.com.au).

The protest comes after a the Environmental Defenders Officers were successful on Friday in legal action that resulted in the bulldozers clearing land being halted until Monday. Greens MP David Shoebridge will join with local residents and forestry campaigners on site to raise their concerns about the imminent destruction of endangered woodland.

Community representatives from the Western Sydney Conservation Alliance will also be present.

To join the protest, meet at the Northern Road fence line, intersection with Borrowdale Way, Penrith at 9:30AM Monday 26 September 2011

Where:

"The protection of 100 hectares of the ADI site was a 2007 election commitment from the NSW Coalition. The NSW Planning Minister Brad Hazzard stated publicly in 2010 that if elected, the Coalition Government would honour this commitment," said Greens NSW MP and Planning spokesperson David Shoebridge.

"The Environmental Defender's Office has now been forced to commence proceedings to protect the endangered woodland on this site.

"Making promises to Western Sydney before an election was the easy part for Mr O'Farrell, it seems delivering on them once in power is much more difficult.

"The Greens and local activists are calling on the Government to deliver on their promises to protect this critically endangered woodland," Mr Shoebridge said.

Related articles:

Locals call on Liberals to honour election commitment to protect Penrith bushland

http://www.streetcorner.com.au/news/show...

Liberals break promise on endangered woodland http://www.streetcorner.com.au/news/show...

Will Hazzard and O'Farrell make good on promise to save Cumberland Plains Woodlands http://www.streetcorner.com.au/news/show...

Barry O'Farrell and Liberals renege on ADI Site commitment http://www.streetcorner.com.au/news/show...

This last article contains the following comment posted by Brad Hazzard

"The NSW Liberals & Nationals are committed to conserving not only the Cumberland Forest land discussed at the 2007 election but want to go further to a more sustainable model that will protect flora and fauna through establishing ecological corridors as a starting point in future planning. In a NSW Liberals & Nationals government, it won't be just about protecting bits and pieces of high conservation lands - it will be about connecting them and sustaining Western Sydney's natural environment as it grows."

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Geoff Brown posts

Brad Hazzards office is now distancing itself from the statements he made last year to Streetcorner journalists that the Libs are committed to conserving the Cumberland Forest land discussed at the the 2007 election - the conservation of an additional 100 hectares of the ADI Site. In this weeks Penrith papers his spokeswoman is reported as saying "there had been no formal election commitment". This wasn't what he was telling Streetcorner journalists when he contacted them to make the comments in the above story. He was saying this was what an elected O'Farrell government would deliver. It was a commitment made publicly to the people of Western Sydney via a western Sydney news outlet. So now the O'Farrell government, in order to renege on public promises prior to the NSW Election, have invented a new category called formal and informal election commitments. This is outrageous and I think a slap in the face to Streetcorner. Hazzards office is really saying because the comments were made on Streetcorner that they weren't actually serious and the rest of the media reporting on this story should think the same.I urge the journos at Streetcorner not to be dismissed in this manner. You know what happened so please continue to question the O'Farrell government to expose this betrayal to the people of western Sydney. The public needs to write to Brad Hazzard, Robyn Parker and Barry O'Farrell and demand the delivery of this 100 ha. More info on the ADI Site issue and Western Sydney's environment is available at www.wsca.org.au

Catherine posts

It is appalling that Liberals and Nationals promised to conserve the Cumberland Forest land before the election. Now that Brad Hazzard has been elected he is not keeping this promise. I believe the election promises should be honoured, and that we should stop destroying our environmental heritage or there will be nothing left for Sydney-siders to enjoy.

anonymous11 posts

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