Talking WestCONnex's destruction of critically endangered bushland
Peter Stevens of the Wolli Creek Preservation Society talks about the planned destruction of the critically endangered Cooks River Castlereagh Ironbark Forest spoke to Col Hesse on Radio Skid Row this morning about Mike Baird's plans to destroy the bushland to create a temporary WestCONnex parking lot.
Read morePeople's Inquiry: WestCONnex and community destruction
On 6 May 2016, Greens MP for Newtown Jenny Leong hosted a People's WestCONnex Inquiry at Parliament of NSW. Several WestCONnex Action Group members spoke at the inquiry on various topics. Here's the speech one of our spokespeople, Kathryn Calman, gave on the devastating community impact of WestCONnex.
Read more16.0 Objection to local impacts not covered in other sections
Kingsgrove Beverly Hills
The impacts on Kingsgrove and Beverly Hills are of grave concern to WAG. Attacks by the government on the WAG group are designed to hide from the residents of South West Sydney the impacts on their communities. We are concerned, for example, about the residents of Stoney Creek Road who have never been properly consulted or informed about the increase traffic and pollution, they will face as a result of the New M5. Details of information about increased traffic should have been explicitly communicated to them in a range of appropriate community languages.
Read moreWhy WestCONnex "mitigation" is one big con
WESTCONNEX Action Group's Kathryn Calman lives in Beverly Hills, right near the King Georges Interchange that's now being widened for WestCONnex. The complaint she lodged after yet another near-sleepless night of heavy construction shows just why the Baird Government's "mitigation" promises can't be trusted.
Read moreOver 9,000 New M5 EIS submissions - THANK YOU!
From everyone here at WestCONnex Action Group, we just want to say THANK YOU for your support during the New M5 environmental impact statement (EIS) submissions period.
Read moreCOMMUNITY UNITES TO STOP WESTCONNEX AS NEW M5 OBJECTIONS FLOOD IN
MORE than 9,000 submissions objecting to the WestCONnex New M5 environmental impact statement (EIS) were sent in to the NSW Department of Planning and Environment by last night’s midnight deadline.
Read moreALBANESE CALL FOR WESTCONNEX AUDIT WELCOMED BUT MORE ACTION URGENTLY NEEDED
WESTCONNEX Action Group (WAG) welcomed Shadow Infrastructure Minister Anthony Albanese’s call for a Federal audit into WestCONnex today, but said this needed to be matched by a commitment to halt Federal funding of the $16.8 billion toll road to stop taxpayer dollars being wasted.
Read moreMEDIA ALERT: WESTCONNEX PROTEST TO HIGHLIGHT DEADLY IMPACT ON KINGSGROVE KIDS
PARENTS AND CHILDREN from Kingsgrove and Beverly Hills will hold a snap protest outside McCallums Hill Public School this afternoon to highlight the deadly impact the WestCONnex toll road would have on local families.
Read moreRESIDENTS ACROSS SYDNEY TELL BAIRD THEY WON’T BE UPROOTED FOR WESTCONNEX
HUNDREDS of residents across the WestCONnex route came to WestCONnex Action Group (WAG)’s UPROOTED family picnic and tree-wrapping events on Sunday to protest the destruction that will be caused if the $16.8 billion toll road goes ahead.
Read moreCOMMUNITIES TO UNITE TO TELL BAIRD THEY WON’T BE UPROOTED FOR WESTCONNEX (SW SYD)
RESIDENTS from across the WestCONnex route will come together on Sunday 6 December for UPROOTED, a family picnic and tree-wrapping event to highlight the community destruction the $16.8 billion toll road would cause.
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