United We Stand Surfrider Rally (film 7)

Nine Environmental protest groups came together under the banner of the national Surfrider Foundation for this rally on Sunday, Dec. 12th 2010.

Find out more at; www.unitedwestand.com.au

• Coal mining at Jilliby, Dooralong and Yarramalong Valleys: (Australian Coal Alliance -- Alan Hayes) stopping coal mining and saving our largest drinking water resource -- under the Dooralong and Yarramalong Valleys.

• Coastal residents: (affects 9000 homes in Gosford Shire -- Pat Aiken) Protesting identification of these 'potentially affected' properties with a world first sea level rise tax.

• Warship at Avoca Beach: (No Ship Action Group -- Michelle Meares) Working to stop the dumping of a 4000 tonne ex-warship HMAS Adelaide as an 'artificial reef' only 1600 metres offshore from a popular family beach. The ship has 23,000 square metres of lead paint still on board. This ship could wreck the world famous Avoca surf breaks.

• Empire Bay Substation (Carolyn Packer): Energy Australia plans to build the substation on high risk bushfire land in a bush corridor next to Cockle Bay and Bouddi National Park and is ignoring protection by Land and Environment Court orders.

• Gas drilling offshore: (Hands off Our Coast -- Peter Freewater) The Ocean Patriot rig is on its way to a drilling site about 50 km off Newcastle, with a proposed site 20 km off Forresters Beach

• High voltage power lines (Joanna Hughes): Increase of standard 11Kv lines to either 66 Kv lines or 132 Kv lines along a route from Empire Bay through Kincumber, Avoca Beach to Picketts Valleys. Dangerous to health -- increases risk of childhood leukemia. Most developed countries now put lines underground.

• Kariong Bushland (Jake Cassar): Save the Sacred Kariong Bushland continues an 80 year battle to trying to get a huge parcel of land with endangered species gazetted as National Park. Two blocks of this land are up for auction this Saturday. Will the Council step up and protect this sacred land for future generations?

• Sand mining at Calga and Peats Ridge: (Calga Peats Ridge Community - Adie Ausburn and Australia Walkabout Wildlife Park -- Tassin Barnard). Sand mining would ruin our aquifer permanently. Also creates clouds of invisible particles of crushed sandstone, silica, which would be carried many kilometres across Kariong and to the Gosford/ Avoca/ Terrigal coastline. Everyone in its path will be at risk of the deadly disease silicosis, an asbestosis-like lung disease, as well as asthma, kidney disease and other pathologies. This proposal will also affect important wildlife conservation work and an aboriginal women's birthing site.

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Education

Tags:

• Australian Coal Alliance
• Coastal residents
• Empire bay substation
• Tassin Barnard
• Ben Smith
• Michelle Meares
• Peter Freewater
• Ian Cohen
• Chris Hartcher
• Quentin Riley
• Mike Rubbo
• Avoca Beach
• ships as dive sites
• scuttled ships
• offshore drilling
• Ian Charlton