Aquatic Ecology No Impediment to Quarry Development
Although the recent judgment by the Planning and Environment Court refused Boral’s appeal (and thus its immediate prospects of developing a new quarry on the Gold Coast), Judge Jones made clear that none of the issues relating to aquatic ecology raised by Council’s consultants were impediments to the development of a quarry. Through a combination of review work and fresh field survey, frc environmental’s Dr John Thorogood successfully demonstrated that the waterways to be lost to development were in essence typical of the region, that they were unlikely to support any species of conservation significance, that the proposed mitigation of…