Recently I attended a meeting at the Kin Kin town hall to further understand the problems locals are going to face when the quarry expands its production in late January. 

The increase in mining will result in some 40 trucks with semi trailers leaving the site per day, each carrying approximately 40 tonnes of rocks. The trucks will I believe be leaving at 9 minute intervals which by my calculations means 6 hours a day of large trucks rumbling down the Kin Kin range.

If you have driven this road lately you will understand that this is a frightening concept. The road in not wide enough to safely pass a truck in many areas, and there is a school bus frequently stopping to pick up kids which has to park in the road as there is no where else for it to go. "Lives will inevitably be lost" were the very words of a key note speaker at the meeting, and absolutely no one disagreed with him including attending councilor Lew Brennen.

Other concerns are that the Quarry will have a lot of water run off into our Noosa river system to combat the issue of dust. This which will affect Noosa and Tewantin residents along the river and other river users.

Another proposed route for the trucks is past the Tewantin primary school or through Pomona township.

The Noosa trail network will have several of its trails deemed unsafe for horse riders due to the increase in traffic and noise pollution caused by the large trucks.

The Kin Kin community has launched legal action against the quarry owners, but sadly there is no support from Main Roads who will take no responsibility. Read the letter below from Warren Truss for more details. 

Below is a list of persons that can be contacted to express your concerns, also our local councilor:

Division 12 councilor Lew Brennan is responsible for Kin Kin. Lew infers that the Quarry which was granted the application back in 1988 has the rights to go ahead with the expansion, and would like all concerned residents to express their concerns in writing to him asap.
Fax: (07) 5441 8338
Lew Brennan
Locked Bag 72
SUNSHINE COAST MAIL CENTRE QLD 4560  

 

addresses.pdf (283.87 kb)

Warren Truss Letter.pdf (176.33 kb)

“No Quarry in Kin Kin” fundraiser

“Passing Wind” – a solo show by Linsey Pollak
Friday February 5th. 7.30pm. Kin Kin Hall.
Entry $10 (families - $20)
This show is a quirky look at how wind instruments work and how they are invented using some pretty unexpected materials such as balloons, rubber gloves, irrigation pipe, a feather duster, a watering can and a carrot. We even get to hear Mr Curly (a contra-bass clarinet made from garden hose). Some of these instruments are made as you watch.
All proceeds from this concert go to the “No Quarry in Kin Kin" Fighting Fund

 
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Council please explain. Was there any visual impact study done? If yes who rubber stamped the same?

Location: Lake Macdonald. View from Gumboil Road 

 

 
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Shame. council, shame 

How sad I am on reading the Noosa News. August 4. 
Rezoning benefits factories. The urban footprint can be changed to assist these businesses, and I for one have no complaint with that, but cannot be changed to give the golf club development the same opportunity. 

The Roberts brothers development is a much-needed first class opportunity for us Cooroy residents to have a five-star facility close to town. 

But,no, the urban footprint can't be changed. Shame, council, shame. 

Edwards 
Cooroy

 
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We bought in 1992 another property on Lake McDonald. A big part of this 90 acre property was unfenced. I enquired with NSC about the fence regulations. The result was, yes you can fence it but you are not allowed to cut down any tree. I asked the gentlemen how anyone can build a fence if you can't take your machinery and material to the location. His answer was, this is not our problem. Today I know his answer was totally wrong. What was his motivation to tell me this bull.....? Probably NSC didn't like my weekly comments in our local newspaper "Cooroy Rag".

 

Some years later, we applied for a subdivision of the same property. The whole procedure was a disaster. I received from NSC staff more warnings than London during the Second World War. First, we came forward with a not so new idea to concentrate all future homes on a certain spot of the property. The remaining acres should be common property. Unfortunately the gentleman in charge of this matter didn't understand why we would like to do this. This was beyond his horizon. I spoke with one of our local councillors and he told me very bluntly that his man has to go because he makes too many mistakes and the councillors have to talk to the people to calm down the situation. Some months later he was gone. Unfortunately I was exposed to some more nasty attacks by some other NSC staff. They tried to apply 3 conditions to our application.

1. They wanted an access to the Lake which should be 12 m wide on the road side and a so far I remember 8 m wide (wedge shape) on the lake.

2. We had to hand over along the lake side all the land which was lower than 1m the high water mark. This was ok with us.

but.......

3. Additional to this land grab NSC asked for a 40m extended buffer in front of our home down to the lake and along the lake for about 180 m. This means the future fence line would be nearly in front of our home. This act had nothing to do with preserving the water quality of Lake McDonald. This was clearly an act of moral vandalism.

 

I decided not to cave in to the mind blowing demands of some bureaucrats and decided not to go ahead with my subdivision. Next day I had 2 big dozers on my property and we started clearing 20 acres. At least I was able to run cattle and build the fence which I wasn't allowed to build some years earlier.

 

Someone told our local councillor what NSC did to me and he was informed about the progressing tree clearing. He called me and asked me to stop the clearing action and he arranged a meeting with our Mayor Bob Abbot. Next day we had the meeting including the bureaucrats responsible for the subdivision conditions.

Bob asked them for an explanation. His answer was: "What a bull...."

 

Two weeks later I got my subdivision without the hair raising conditions.

 
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