BioBanking - Another Christmas Holiday Surprise - Consultation closes 01.02.08
Posted by: LyndaNewnam in Environment, PlanningIn 2002 BioBanking under the name Green Offsets was placed on exhibition by the EPA. BBACA put in a submission(http://botanybay.info/wp-content/uploads/2006/11/submissiongreenoffsets.pdf ) and then kept asking for an acknowledgement and/or further information - we forwarded our request to Lis Corbyn on a few occasions and each time we were ignored. When the determination for the Port Expansion was put in the public domain(October 2005) it contained a reference to the Draft Green Offsets saying that it would be used for Penrhyn Estuary. This year Sydney Ports used the Green Draft Offsets in establishing a ‘value’ for Penrhyn should the ‘enhancement’ plan for the area fail - link http://www.botanybay.info/wp-content/uploads/2007/07/penrhyn-estuary-offset-package-0705-5015b.pdf Isn’t it grand to live in a parliamentary democracy?
Public consultation for BIOBANKING - Compare with Draft Green Offsets(2002)
The Department of Environment and Climate Change (DECC) has released several important components of the BioBanking Scheme for community comment. They are the: Regulatory Impact Statement for the proposed regulation for the scheme, the Threatened Species Conservation (Biodiversity Banking) Regulation 2007
The closing date for submissions is Friday 1 February 2008: biobanking@environment.nsw.gov.au OR
Dr Richard Sheldrake,Deputy Director General
Department of Environment and Climate Change NSW
PO Box A290,Sydney South NSW 1232
Submissions should include your name, address, contact phone numbers and email address and indicate whether you:
would like to receive further information about the scheme;are interested in participating in the scheme and would like to attend information sessions and receive information for potential participants when the scheme commences:are interested in receiving information about training on the credit calculator.
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January 6th, 2008 at 1522
Biobanking has such a crap reputation. A SMH journo scoffed at it over the phone to me recently. But it indirectly got a good wrap by their Sydney Magazine for Dec 08 re ‘most influential Sydney people’ which was a joke analysis posturing by cliquey herald trusties at least in the enviro section.
I posted on this with some quite sharp bruising rebuttals regarding professional reputations of several people involved not least govt bureaucrat pushing biobanking given it arises from a 1997 attempt at racist extinguishment of native title by NSW Farmers in the Brigalow Belt southern mallee woodlands area, when they were desperate to achieve ‘bucket loads of extinguishment’ after the Wik legal case building on Mabo legal case in regards to Western Division leases in NSW (some 2/3 of NSW area). Yep, the farmers cooked up a wedge of the Blacks using the dumb greens. But I was wise to it then in 1997 and put a spoke in the wheel:
Here is the link of the racist history of biobanking -
Systemic racism in NSW behind the 1997
origins of ‘bio banking’ aka ‘tradeoff’ land clearing?
at http://www.sydneyalternativemedia.com/blog/index.blog/1772974/systemic-racism-in-nsw-behind-the-1997-origins-of-bio-banking-aka-tradeoff-land-clearing/
with picture there of one Simon Smith, Deputy Director General of Environment. Actually he is a grey man bureaucratic fixer to greenwash developer green lights.
In this respect a recent traverse is instructive from 1997-2008 culture of the ALP sellout to developers in 5 or so Big Press articles, and now Greens website:
Democracy4Sale (NSW)
at
http://www.sydneyalternativemedia.com/id122.html
Appropo ‘the most influential’ here is my sledge of the patriarchal and pretty sleasy posturing of trusty Keith Muir in the green sector within the TEC fold:
Wednesday, 12 December 2007
Foolish Fairfax 100 most influential list? The Keith Muir case study
at
http://www.sydneyalternativemedia.com/blog/index.blog/1771620/foolish-fairfax-100-most-influential-list-the-keith-muir-case-study/
(with comment of ex NCC CEO Sid Walker at the end there)
and howler #2 here
Thursday, 13 December 2007
Sydney Magazine ‘most influential list’ howler #2
at
http://www.sydneyalternativemedia.com/blog/index.blog/1771874/sydney-magazine-most-influential-list-howler-2/
Anyway what I really want is a nice pic of Botany Bay natural heritage so that’s enough for now. Keep up the great work Linda. You are an intellectual amazon in my book.