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And again Kempton, who by the time of the revelation in was no longer an MP, but instead a lawyer representing landholders, launched an attack on environmentalists, saying they should be sued. Before long someone will sue this fanatical ideological lobby group for injurious falsehood.
And again, after all the lobbying was done, no referral was forthcoming. According to the public register of applications under federal environment law, no application for approval has yet been made to date. Amidst the Olive Vale fiasco, the federal department of environment took a different approach with a station called Kingvale. Back in , the Queensland government approved 2, hectares of land in Cape York on Kingvale, a station owned by the farming magnate Scott Harris.
Harris also owns Strathmore station in Queensland where the largest clearing permit in Australian history was granted for the bulldozing of 58, hectares of savannah woodland.
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But two years later, in August , the federal department of environment became concerned the clearing could impact the Great Barrier Reef and stepped in. GBRMPA told the department there was uncertainty about how individual instances of clearing would impact the reef but advised that:. Harris fought the decision to force the referral in the federal court, represented by none other than David Kempton.
In February , Harris withdrew the challenge to the referral. No decision has yet been made about the Kingvale clearing.
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The more recent and ongoing case of one farmer attempting to clear his land illustrates all these power systems propping up the land clearing crisis gripping Australia. Wombinoo Station covers 28, hectares of Queensland in the Great Barrier Reef catchment, sitting roughly 70km south east of Cairns.
In , the owners, Warren and Gail Jonsson sought approval from the state government to clear The clearing was approved by the state government, and the Jonssons began bulldozing and burning trees. To aid the assessment, the department of environment and energy commissioned an independent assessment of both the proposed further clearing, and the clearing that had already taken place.
That report is publicly available. It also found an important population of koalas probably occurred on the station. Since a landholder is required to refer an action that could have a significant impact on matters of national environmental significance, Brendan Dobbie, a senior solicitor at the Environmental Defenders Office of NSW, says his view is that on the face of it, those facts suggest the initial clearing broke the law. Multiple attempts to contact both the Jonssons and their lawyer Kempton have been unsuccessful, however they are understood to dispute a number of matters on which the report made findings.
They maintain that there are in fact no populations of koalas on or near Wombinoo station. They also say no harm has come to any koalas or other species in the course of clearing, that all clearing they have ever undertaken was legal and had the required approvals. The department of environment, after commissioning its report, decided not to take any compliance action at all in relation to that clearing. In documents obtained by the Guardian under FOI laws, the department requests that the landholders not clear anything else without getting their go-ahead.
But it emerged in November that the Jonssons had already cleared some of the land that was subject to the ongoing federal assessment.
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The Wilderness Society identified about 40 hectares of clearing on Wombinoo Station, about half of which occurred inside the area still to be assessed for approval by the federal government. A strip about 60m wide was cut through the property, and a larger square area was cleared at the end of the road. When the ABC and Guardian Australia reported those revelations, the response from the farming lobby was ferocious.
The Jonssons insisted they had gained all relevant approvals under both state and federal law for all the clearing they had undertaken. The minister for environment and energy, Josh Frydenberg, apparently after lobbying from Entsch, came out and backed the farmers, saying: But despite all these definitive public statements, the Queensland government then concluded that hectares of the initial clearing in was outside of areas that had received approval.
The Queensland government said it had fined the landholders, and ordered they restore the bulldozed areas.
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In addition, they banned clearing over other parts of the property as an offset measure. The Jonssons have since appealed the fine in a court. The findings by the Queensland government sheds no direct light on the legality of any of the clearing under federal law, including the most recent clearing that occurred while federal assessment was ongoning.
The federal department of environment and energy has acknowledged that part of the 40 hectares of clearing which came to light in November was inside the area that was still being assessed for approval. In further questioning, the department expanded on why they believed no such clearing had commenced:. On Facebook, Warren Johnson said the family deny any wrongdoing, and said they would strenuously defend his family against the allegations.
Multiple attempts to contact both the Jonssons and their lawyer Kempton have been unsuccessful. This book is not yet featured on Listopia. Apr 08, Cait rated it did not like it Shelves: This was a really hard book to read because it was desperately in need of an editor. I spent half the time I was reading it adding notes to correct it!
Read a lot like a computer game. I think it would probably work really well as a game you could play through because the animation could add depth to the story. Felt like there was way too much telling and not enough showing. Could have d This was a really hard book to read because it was desperately in need of an editor. Could have done with more description of the characters and scenery to help me to picture things better. Amy Mclaren rated it really liked it Mar 11, There are no discussion topics on this book yet. Gephardt is a self-proclaimed "Novel Noob" and military brat who currently resides in Sussex County, Delaware.
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