The Government has confirmed its intention to undertake an assessment of an alternative option at the existing site. The intention is to produce a report to enable proper comparison with option 3b. Hyder Consultants have been engaged to do this work, which will include detailed drawings, cost estimates and a safety audit. Criteria in the comparison will include safety, costs and environmental impacts. Read more details in Update 17.
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Documents have recently been obtained by Freedom of Information (FOI) from the Department of Transport (DoT) that show that the controversial ‘Option 3b’ breakwater and beach road proposed by East Gippsland Shire Council (EGSC) was not the preferred solution of DoT executive for Mallacoota’s Bastion Point. It recommended that Minister Napthine support the lower impact, Option H2’. Read our Media Release here and the Snowy River Mail . The documents directly refute EGSC’s recent public claims that the lower ...
Please add your message, and send an electronic postcard to East Gippsland Mayor Dick Ellis, and local MP Tim Bull, here.
Hundreds of locals and visitors gathered at Bastion Point on Easter Sunday 31 May 2013, to both celebrate Bastion and make the Point to East Gippsland Shire Council that opposition to 3b is as strong as ever. The centre piece was an enormous white elephant, symbolic of both the over sized 3b proposal and the drain it will be on the public purse. To the beat of drums the crowd paraded under the elephant and along the beach, waving placards and ...
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