Westbury Reserve
LAST year on World Environment day the Premier proudly stated that our natural environment was of major importance to Tasmania.
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This year he is saying that it is OK to simply excise one third of the declared nature reserve at Westbury and destroy the viability of the whole for it to become the site of the Northern prison. Calling it a shovel-ready infrastructure project rather than the critical natural asset that it is.
This is blatant hypocrisy.
How will we trust those in government to ensure the continued existence of even the smaller patches of our precious natural inheritance.
What hope for sound and responsible custodianship of Tasmania's outstanding places of rare and highly rated world heritage value while he is underestimating the intrinsic value of what Tasmanians love?
Helen Tait, West Launceston.
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