Documents on proposed charcoal plant and wood-fired power station, Eurobadalla region. Includes publications and correspondence, 1999-2002

 
Containers:
Box 21 (MS 10563)
Component identifier:
File 256
Content Summary:

Documents originally enclosed in a buff annotated envelope embossed as "The Ecologist" and labelled "South Coast Burning" in file 254.

Pamphlet "Nature coast or charcoal coast?" produced by Charcoalition: Communities for a charcoal-free South coast.

Newspaper clipping "Charcoal factory debate heating up" by Frances Wilden. Bay Post/Southern Star, 5 September 2001.

Photocopies of correspondence between Mr Bob Carr, Premier of New South Wales, Roger B. Wilkins, Director-General of the Cabinet Office, New South Wales, and A.D. Brown regarding the charcoal plant proposal for Mogo in the Eurobodalla Shire.

Information sheet "Public consultation and survey on the charcoal facility proposed for the Shire" produced by Eurobodalla Shire Council, 2002.

Handwritten letter to the editor "Fires again!" by Alec Costin. Includes eight photocopied duplicates, annotated in red biro.

Newspaper clippings of letters to the editor page from the Bay Post/Southern Star regarding controlled burning, 2001. Includes an attached handwritten manuscript of one of the published letters by Alec Costin. Also includes photocopied duplicates, some annotated in red biro.

Newspaper clippings on an incident in which a woman was killed in a traffic accident due to heavy fog at Tuross Head. Clippings from Narooma News and the Narooma Independent, May 1999.

Handwritten note in red biro regarding the "Dampier Forest/Park?" burn-off.

Newsletter "The Coastwatchers Association Inc." Includes report from a bushfire workshop held at Jervis Bay on 19 and 20 August 2000. Heading of report circled in biro. Newsletter also includes report on proposed "waste wood" power station in the Moruya area.

Documents (photocopies) relating to wood-fired power stations. Includes two-page report and two letters (including one letter to the editor of the Sydney Morning Herald, other addressee unidentified). Also includes one report. Letters and report by A.D. Brown.

Immediate source of acquisition:
This large and diverse collection was compiled by Alec Costin then organised and catalogued by the eScholarship Research Centre at The University of Melbourne from 2017-2019. The collection was then transferred to the National Library of Australia in 2020.

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Canberra ACT 2600, Australia
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