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Homeless and helpless.
Clr Larry Whipper responding to claims made by Ms Candy Raymond in an article in the SHN Monday, 17th December re: "Animals displaced by council work", certainly shares her concerns on this matter.
"This information was brought to my attention last week and at that time I spoke directly to the Council Officer who is overseeing the works at Lake Alexandra. At that point in time he had not been aware of the claims. He did however give an undertaking to investigate the matter.
Clr Whipper, who has been the Chairman of Councils Environment Committee since 2000 and long time advocate of the environment levy also stated “that he had been personally concerned about the displacement of our fauna as a result of land clearing, development and some works of restoration such as Lake Alexandra. There is no need for this to happen. It should be incumbent as a part of Council consent, that developers engage appropriate expertise to identify any vulnerable wildlife that may be at risk as a result of there proposals and with either Wires or national Parks make arrangements for the relocation of these before proceeding with any land clearing”.
"At a recent Environment Committee meeting it was resolved and later endorsed by Council, that we set up discussions with Wires in an attempt to see if there is a way that Council can use Wires considerable expertise to assess/relocate and /or provide any ideas on how Wingecarribee Shire Council and Wires could establish some type of MOU.
The idea would be for Councils Development Control Branch to be able to access this expertise when issues arose relating to development approvals which had the potential to harm or displace our precious wildlife". He said.
Through our Natural resources manager, we have started talking to the Local Wires and are now awaiting their ideas. I look forward to a meeting with Wires on this matter early in the New year to see if we can formulate a proposal to take to the Environment Committee and then to Council on the matter.
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Thursday, December 20, 2007
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