Queensland Greens senator Larissa Waters wants the Queensland government to upgrade Cleveland’s Toondah Harbour, while protecting endangered wetlands, rather than leaving it to the private sector.
Development giant Walker Corporation has withdrawn its application to build Toondah Harbour on the Cleveland foreshore, ending a decade-long fight to protect international wetlands.reject the project on environmental groundsThe Walker Group’s plan, as of June 2018, for Cleveland’s Toondah Harbour, which has been rejected because it is built over 38 hectares of protected wetlands.
“We respect the minister’s opinion that she does not believe the project in its current form provides the protections for the environment and we need the appropriate amount of time to understand and address those concerns, to satisfy the government’s reasonable, high environmental standards.” “As the principal point of departure and arrival for ferry services between the mainland and North Stradbroke Island, Toondah Harbour is ‘the gateway to Straddie’, theWalker won the tender in 2014 and planned to build 3600 units and berth 400 boats over 32 hectares of internationally recognised Ramsar wetlands at their planned Toondah Harbour marina complex.
“The tireless campaigners from the Quandamooka Community, Redlands 2030, Birdlife, the ACF, the Koala Action Group and all the members of the Toondah Alliance must be congratulated,” Waters said.“The Queensland state Labor government had already approved Walker Corp’s proposal, leaving Toondah Harbour open to other development applications in the future,” Waters said.
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