Stop logging native forests in a climate and biodiversity emergency Pt 2

It is not ok to do industrial logging in a biodiversity crisis.
It is not ok to kill our atmosphere
It is not ok to kill the diversity of life on the planet.

Electrifying heavy-duty vehicles could reduce environmental inequalities
https://techxplore.com/news/2023-09-electrifying-heavy-duty-vehicles-environmental-inequalities.html

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41893-023-01219-0
Camilleri, S.F., et al, Air quality, health and equity implications of electrifying heavy-duty vehicles, Nature Sustainability (2023). DOI: 10.1038/s41893-023-01219-0.

https://www.dcceew.gov.au/climate-change/international-commitments
Australia is party to the Paris Agreement. The Paris Agreement came into force in 2016. It was a major step forward in international efforts to address climate chang

Climate Change Detection and Attribution?
https://archive.ipcc.ch/publications_and_data/ar4/wg1/en/ch9s9-1-2.html

#FossiFuel #machinery #HDVs #trucks #pollution #exposure AirQuality #externalities #OneHealth #NSWLogging #logging #BellingLogging #Bellingen #RosesRoad #GlenifferRoad #Climate #GHG #SaveTuckersNob

Monopolising and overusing residential roads for the purpose of industrial extraction.

For over half a year they made a highway out of the scenic Gleniffer Road so that the forest ' stuff' can be extracted and monetised before all that 'bush' is possibly declared a Koala National Park.

When Gleniffer Road was closed and traffic went along Roses Rd., the steep and bendy road was smashed into bits by overuse in the last seven month.

Almost on a daily basis various fossil fuel trucks and machinery patch the damage with small fossil fuel 'bandages' and widen the shoulders so that they can accommodate the machinery of (forest) destruction.

Stop logging native forests
Stop logging the homes of biodiversity

#GlenifferRoad #RosesRoad #BellingenLogging #forests #NativeForests #LoggingImpacts #roads #Bellingen #TheGreatKoalaNationalPark #climate #FossilFuel

@environment @Bellingen

Dr. Tim Cadman about clear felling Tuckers Nob forest, compartments 26/27, also know as the proposed Great Koala National Park.
on Coffs Coast Breakfast (start 38 min - 49 min)

https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/coffscoast-breakfast/coffs-coast-breakfast/102768584

Some points mentioned:

The impacts of clear felling on koalas and wildlife.
Koalas and other wildlife are 'blind' to so called 'plantation' labels or old growth forests.
The proposed logging period also overlaps with the 'vulnerable to extinction' marsupials' breeding season. ( September and February)
The noise, trucks, dust, fires, smoke, pesticides of industrial logging operations making the area unlivable for all living beings.
Possibly an uninhabitable scenic Gleniffer for approx. 2 - 5 years due to being tuned into an industrial site.
The short notice to (some) residents.
The undemocratic nature of non-consultation.
The fobbing off to a FCNSW website.

At approx. 47 min FCNSW had their statement read out.

#Gleniffer #residents #Bellingen #pesticides #fires #smoke #trucks #noise#FCNSW #logging #GKNP #GreatKoalaNationalPark #wildlife #biodiversity #RosesRoad #GlenifferRoad #StopLogging #TN26/27 #SaveTuckersNob

Running red lights
Sacrifice Roses Road to beautify Gleniffer Road?
After six month of #detour on #RosesRoad motorists have just become oblivious to the the forest of signs. Drivers are more impatient and aggressiv on the narrow, steep and bendy roads. #Speeding of trucks and cars has become normal.
It is cheap to crowd a small road with signs and do no policing. Now that many 'run the red light' on a daily bases, it is just a matter of time before a #crash takes place. The road is made #unsafe and cracked open by overuse. A sacrifice so that #GlenifferRoad is fit for logging trucks and the tourist stream.
#Bellingen #Climate #Dust #Pollution #BellingenLogging #Roads #Cars #RoadTrauma

Electric city bus sales overtake diesel in Europe in 2023. This marks the first time that a #ZeroEmission technology has become dominant in a road transport sector in Europe.
Phase out internal combustion engines.!

https://theicct.org/electric-buses-europe-may23/
#ClimateAction #EVs #Buses
Image: Heavy #FossilFuel #Traffic on the tiny #UnnamedCreek bridge #Bellingen #RosesRoad #GlenifferRoad #Roads made #Unsafe ##CountryRoads

Bellingen Update in two parts:
Part 1
#Bellingen has been undergoing radical road widening and "Panic logging” for many months. A desperate attempt to convert narrow, windy and sloping forest roads into a wide and straight 'highway' to suit heavy road trains and extraction machinery. The new all-season road will enhance #deforestation and the flow of motorised tourists. It is said. The nexus #GlenifferRd and #RosesRoad and are being worked on most intensively with #Fossilfuel and a generous amount of a tar-like substance.

On some roads the shoulders are shaved of all vegetation to widen it by 2-3 m on either side. This is supposed to convey the illusion that the road is very wide. On others, bulldozers push the 'dirt' and vegetation (and its habitants) down the 'ditch' (Bellinger River or small creeks) Decorative small sandbags are placed sparingly apparently as #SiltControl. The recent rain makes the slimy bare red soil run off, #erosion and #weeds will follow with a vengeance. This is fossil fuel landscaping at its finest. Matting or replanting seems not in sight. Weeds love this disturbed area.

For road users and residents this intensification means detours, various traffic lights, diesel generators, heavy diesel machinery, blockages of the existing rural roads for months and months. Dump trucks and bulldozers add to the ambient #pollution of the air, soil, aquatic systems and living entities.
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