Just got news that abbot has given Reinhardt the go a head to start ripping up the reef for her export terminal... Not a good start for our local environment.... Oh sure, money money money.... Greedy fackin boogers..... I worked on sail/ divecharters and we pulled punters from the water for standing on or touching the reef... Seems kinda pointless now... Carnts...
Are you absolutely sure she is actually going to actually rip up the actual Great Barrier actual Reef? Really?
That sounds so preposterous that it sounds more like the actions of a James Bond villain, or far more likely a rumour based on misguided misunderstanding of misinformation that grew wings because Tony + Gina = food for rage-aholics.
Preemptive: Because salt.
I agree with sentiments of BennyB12's post.
It's not so much the 'ripping of reef' that concerns me, it is the many millions of tons of spoil/silt that will be dumped and settle wherever the current takes it. You don't have to rip coral up to kill it; a layer of silt will do it.
You can be sure that the disposal of silt will be done in the cheapest possible way, NOT the way that causes the least harm. I haven't read the EIS for this project but have read others for similar projects. Even when the science shows the proposed methods are not effective, it all gets driven by cost.
If you are referring to the expansion of the Abbot Point (funny about the name) coal terminal, the nearest reef is Old Reef some 25 nm north of it. Also those waters are part of the main shipping channel inside the GBR and has a depth in excess of 40 metres.
I am no fan of Gina the Gorilla but she won't be ripping up the reef and I can't see that the expansion will have any significant impact on the GBR.
Do you have more specific information about what she will be doing?
Doesn't sound good. What I do know is that the Abott Point jetty is a bitch of a thing to get past if you are sailing south and the waters are quite murky.
Sounds like the local member has the usual pollies affliction, selective deafness.
My guess its hook passage........it's all natural and no dredging or mining or what ever happens near this area.
Or black reef passage 71 metres!
Being as how the image is from Australian Geographic it is extremely doubtful it would be of a dredged channel.