A new motorway may provide some short-term relief to congestion, but within a short time the extra road capacity generates more traffic than there was before. In the long term motorways just allow congestion to grow further: they don’t reduce it. The continuing debate on the M4 east and spending billions of dollars on a […]
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Below is a snapshot of Pauline’s council activities. The Draft Canada Bay Comprehensive Local Environment Plan (LEP) 2012 The draft LEP is intended to establish broad controls for future land use and development across Canada Bay. It came back to Council with amendments, after receiving 226 submissions while it was on exhibition. A separate report
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Protect Canada Bay from Coal Seam Gas (CSG) Exploration Pauline Tyrrell at “No CSG Rally’ on 1 May 2012 Pauline Tyrrell was one of 4,000 people who rallied outside State Parliament recently to stop CSG mining under both the Sydney metropolitan area and in prime agricultural land all over NSW. There is growing concern that
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On 30th April 2012, Ms. Kasy Chambers (executive director) released a report on how affordable it is to rent in Australia. The report, entitled: “Rental Affordability Snapshot” demonstrates how the private market has failed Australians from a low socio economic background. On a weekend in April 2012, Anglicare agencies undertook research of rental properties that
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The future of the most cost effective renewable energy technology in NSW is now at risk. The capacity to cut 17 million tonnes of CO2 from the state’s greenhouse gas emissions while creating 4,000 new jobs could be lost if the $10 billion worth of wind farm developments currently proposed for NSW are driven away
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