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News) Surf RageSOSI have been a surfer, diver and fisherman since I was a child; I couldn't be any other way. I have lived for over 15 years on the gold coast and must have surfed TOS a thousand times. I am an skilled surfer with over 25 years experience, I have surfed many renowned breaks in Australia and Indonesia and some of the greatest barrels and memories I have were given to me in my own backyard at TOS. Surf rage is alive and flourishing on the gold coast, the major breaks are already maxed out with surfers coinciding with our population escalation, have a look at snapper on a weekend, it's outrageous, and the government wants to take away a heavily used surfing recourse, TOS. It is not uncharacteristic to see over 300 surfers at TOS on a weekend, not including the fisherman and divers. The Spit is the only region of the Gold Coast that hasn't been smashed by development, the only place left to walk your dog, catch a fish, have a picnic, surf, relax and get away from it all. TOS is a wave of world class as is Snapper, Burleigh, The Ally, Dbar, and Kirra, well Kirra was till the council disfigured it. I have witnessed the Gold Coast convert from a happy, friendly coastal town to a dog eat dog over populated and over developed, traffic and crime ridden metropolis. I address this to every Gold Coast local, the planned terminal is nothing but a smoke screen for a land grab, They intend to construct a huge complex filled of shops and restaurants and build up the whole area, (like we need more shops and restaurants) and no matter what the outcome of the environmental impact study are, the council will sugar coat the report and it will be passed. Why do you think there where so many tenders? As far as the council is concerned the terminal is approved. No matter what the devastating and irreversible environmental effects are, or what the local's desire, our spit will be developed. We will have nuclear ships and weapons in our Broadwater and the Gold Coast will have a nuclear disaster plan. The continuous dredging will annihilate marine life and there will be no visibility for the divers. One mishap, combined with the Broadwater's heavily silted canal system on an incoming tide, will spell unstoppable colossal carnage. TOS will be inaccessible by paddling from the spit and it will have heavily enforced exclusion zones. If you get to TOS and an enormous ship wishes to port, well you are stuck there, but the surfers want have to be concerned about that because there won't be any waves there to surf. The ships will refuel from an onsite fuel plant, or by fuel trucks, dump there rubbish and replenish there water supplies from our already suffering dam. But that's ok isn't it, us locals can just have heavier water restrictions imposed and if our water gets too low turn off the beach showers again, locals don't mind, tourists come first don't they? , before the environment and the people who reside here. Well I and thousands of locals don't believe so. Our council continues to disgrace itself and betray the people of the Gold Coast. What puzzles me the most is that the Gold Coast adore's being recognized world wide for its beaches and world class breaks, the standard of surfer it produces and the drive it possesses in the surfing industry. How could the GCCC be prepared to jeopardize that? The famous Kirra is gone and it looks like the famous TOS is next. This Terminal is going to take an enormous fight to stop, the largest in Gold Coast history. Devoid of the support from every person concerned we don't stand a chance. I urge all that care for our spit and our environment, and wish there children to be able to enjoy it as we have, to facilitate in this fight. Beattie you have blown it, on Sundays rally screams of "No confidence Beattie" could be heard echoing across the Broadwater. Going ahead with this one will cost you your job, believe me, the local people of the Gold Coast have had enough. The next rally will be stronger. And we will be heard This is the peoples land. Ross Gardner Nerang |
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