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"Weve scraped, weve replenished and weve built sea walls. "Beaches can and do take care of themselves if we let them be, with a little helping hand after every storm. "Why are we supporting the enemies of the healthy resilient beach rather than the beach itself? "Have we gone quite mad?" Cr Hackett said instead of planning to reinforce the shoreline along part of the coast the community should be planning for retreat from the shore. "We dont have to retreat now," she said. "We can retrea...

Rous County Council meeting yesterday. Zoom screenshot. With numbers locked yesterday, the Chair of Rous County Council (RCC), Keith Williams, voted to prevent the contentious Dunoon Dam project proceeding, at a not-so ordinary Rous meeting in Lismore. The meeting began with deputations against the dam from Duncan Dey, Bianca Urbana and Cindy Roberts, who was representing the Widjabul Wyabul traditional owners of the affected area, between Dunoon and The Channon. Ms Roberts said, ‘As we gath...

UPDATE, 3.30pm: ROUS County Council has decided to scrap the idea of a Dunoon Dam from its Water Future Plan 2060. After a last-minute motion by Lismore councillor Vanessa Ekins, councillors decided to scrap the 50GL dam in Dunoon. Instead of the dam, the motion focused on changing the focus of the plan to the upgrade of the Marom Creek Water Treatment Plant and the use of new underground water from the Alstonville area for the first ten years, to develop technology to allow for direct and ...

Hans Lovejoy Independent councillor Basil Cameron is proposing at this Thursday’s meeting that councillors adopt a set of Road Access and Safety Principles, ‘to be embedded in all road policy to ensure safe, equitable access for all road users’. He told The Echo, ‘Despite a substantial increase of traffic on our rural roads, fundamental safety issues are being ignored.’ One of the many accidents that have taken place on Coolamon Scenic Drive. Photo supplied. ‘Recently a “road sa...