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Media Alert - Campaign Launch |
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Saturday, 06 December 2008 01:34 |
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Media Alert from the River, Lakes and Coorong Action Group Inc:
Dec 7, Clayton Bay, 10.30am
Campaign Launch: The Summer We Saved Our Lakes
If the government wont act, we will
Join us. Picnic Shelter at Clayton Bay, Opposite Sails Restaurant on Island View
Drive
The River, Lakes and Coorong Action Group Inc (RLACAG) has invited people from
Adelaide to partner with them in saving the lakes.
This is the first act in a much longer campaign, said Anne Hartnett, Chair of the
RLACAG. We are providing a model which can be replicated around the lakes.
For full details download the Media Alert here: Media Alert re Dec 7. Dec 05.pdf
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Last Updated on Saturday, 06 December 2008 03:13 |
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RLCAG - Show Us Your Science |
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Friday, 05 December 2008 05:29 |
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Press release from the River, Lakes and Coorong Action Group Inc:
Show us your science
Local residents are demanding the SA Government share the science on which their decision,
announced December 1, to seek advance approval to let sea water flow into the local lakes is based and to share it now.
At a meeting in Milang on December 1 members of the Rivers, Lakes and Coorong Action
Group Inc and concerned locals agreed: "We want to be able to critique the data and
interpretation. We want to see the modelling and projections and the data on which they are
based. We want to know what questions their consultants have been asked to address.
Download the full release here:prrlacag21208.pdf
For more from the RLCAG visit our Pres Releases secion.
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Last Updated on Friday, 05 December 2008 05:44 |
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Press Release - Hon Karlene Maywald |
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Monday, 01 December 2008 11:00 |
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Press Release from the Minister:
EPBC PROCESS COMPULSORY FOR LAKES SEAWATER OPTION
December 1, 2008
The State Government has today applied to the Commonwealth Government for advance approvals
required as part of the $10 million management strategy to avoid acidification in the Lower Lakes.
Download the full release here: Maywald Lakes referral.pdf
Discuss this in our forums now, and make sure you join us at Clayton on Sun 7th December for our "Summer we Saved the Lakes" Campaign Launch.
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Last Updated on Wednesday, 03 December 2008 10:11 |
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The Summer We Saved the Lakes |
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Saturday, 29 November 2008 07:28 |
On Sunday December 7, the River, Lakes and Coorong Action Group Inc. will launch The Summer We Saved the Lakes campaign at 10.30am at Clayton Bay with a community action.
Meet at the picnic shelter near the jetty.
BBQ to follow.
- We need to help others understand that the water crisis CAN be fixed without weirs.
- We need to get Adelaide people involved in saving the Lakes and River.
- We need to have options other than more dams and engineering fixes.
- We need to help the land to heal.
Most of all we need fresh water. While we are waiting for our political leaders to act, the River, Lakes and Coorong Action Group Inc. is inviting you to act in the interests of the environment.
Our campaign will include:
- Community action: Adopt a River
- Planting the bare expanses of the lake shore - bioremediation
- Postcards to the Premier
- Information brochures
- Newsletters
- And much more
"Adopt a River": We will identify stressed foreshore areas and intend to mulch and plant to prevent acidification. We will invite families, individuals, organisations and institutions from Adelaide to partner with us. Each campaigner will be responsible for recruiting, educating and hosting our city partners.
Our first action of planting (bioremediation) will be at the community action at Clayton Bay on December 7, 10:30 am.
We want to let the freshening waters of the Finniss River and Currency Creek do their bit. The water needs to be able to circulate. Our goal is to work with nature and keep out the salt water.
Water for the Lakes: If the government cannot find water for the Lakes, we will. Obviously this is more symbolic than real and it will not be enough, but it will be a way of engaging and educating others. We will invite our Adelaide partners to become part of the solution, not part of the problem. We will ask them to limit their water usage to a certain amount per week. We will share strategies whereby they can save water. They will bring the water they have saved to the Lakes and use it to keep their patch of mulching and planting alive. At the very least this process will alert people to how much water they use.
We will ask the people to document their saved part of the Lake and get them to involve others. We put it all online. Little by little we can save the Lakes. Not cut it up and dam it.
This will be a fast moving campaign and we are asking you to help us by attending a planning meeting at the Milang Institute on Monday December 1, 5.30-7.00pm and joining in our action on December 7.
The time frame is short because we understand that consultation regarding proposals for a weir at Clayton Bay will commence around December 11.
As you will recall at a community meeting at Clayton, July 19, 2008, several hundred troubled residents agreed no further dams or weirs of any type were to be built between Lock 1 and the barrages. They called for significant environmental flows to be sent down the river to keep the system alive. This remains our position.
DATES to REMEMBER
- Sunday December 7, 10.30am, Clayton Bay, Campaign Launch and BBQ
THINGS TO DO
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Send this message onto your networks
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Find an Adelaide person, group or institution with whom you could partner and invite them to join the action.
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Last Updated on Monday, 01 December 2008 07:27 |
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ABC News - CSIRO measures declining Murray health |
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Tuesday, 25 November 2008 08:04 |
"A CSIRO report has highlighted the declining environmental health of the Murray mouth in South Australia.
It found there is no water flowing at the river mouth 40 per cent of the time ... "
click here to read the full story.
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Last Updated on Tuesday, 25 November 2008 08:05 |
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