ABPA - Australian Bush Poets Association

Company wins the right to move 262 koalas and destroy their habitat if $1.2bn Watermark coalmine in New South Wales goes ahead

http://www.theguardian.com/environment/ ... are_btn_fb

JUST A BLOODY DROP BEAR ... Maureen Clifford © The #Scribblybark Poet
Oh don't you worry 'bout me mate I'm just a grey 'drop bear'
that has been dropped right in it and that really isn't fair.
I was minding my own business, up there in the trees
sleeping in the midday sun and chewing bloody leaves.

We koalas thought life was cool here in this special spot
we were not bothering anyone, but it seems it was not
to continue, for they've sold it off to bloody Japanese.
This Aussie Government's a joke they'll bring us to our knees.

They want to mine for coal they say - its hidden underground.
They're going to clear the forests soon for acres all around.
And we'll be like orangutans in Borneo - you'll see -
our forests burnt and felled and cleared. So what becomes of me?

They say they'll relocate us. Well that's a bloody joke,
there's hardly any land left now, invaded by the smoke
and roads and house developments and cleared for farms and quarries
but don't you give a thought to us - please don't add to your worries.

We're just a small marsupial - endangered ? Yes we are.
We'll end up like the Thylacine - viewed through a glass walled jar.
The farmers here don't want the mine - they're worried 'bout their water
and Barnaby is speaking out and so he bloody oughta.

All for a bloody coal mine! Shenhua Watermark it's named.
If Aussies let it go ahead they will be truly shamed
when they lose another icon - a Koala up a tree,
just one more thing they'll make extinct . You doubt it? Wait and see.

Well said, Maureen.

The deals between politicians and mining companies seem oblivious to the rape and destruction of our flora and fauna.

I hope the voices of the people are loud enough so that those cocooned in Canberra can eventually start hearing before it is too late.

It's a tragedy unfolding Maureen, the old Hebrew prophet Isaiah saw a day when humans would be an endangered species ;

'I will put an end to the arrogance of the proud
And abase the haughtiness of the ruthless
I will make mortal man scarcer than pure gold'

I wonder what that's about, people say that's just nonsense, Oh well I guess we shall see.
The way we are going, we'll manage the job ourselves.


Allan . The other day I dropped a friend at the local railway station at Singleton to catch the express passenger service to Sydney. The express was 30 minutes late in arriving. The reason ; an empty coal train had to come through and change the crew over at Singleton Station.
You see it is already too late.

Maureen I see the other day where one of our local members expressed the opinion that these green groups are just objecting to these mining expansions as delaying tactics that will drag on in the courts over technicalities that will force the developer to reconsider the cost of going ahead. Most of them do not even live in the area and will not be directly effected by the mines or such. ( since when has this been a criteria to object )


Well I tell ya I'm happy to let them take the bastards on, on my behalf so long as we keep the mongerels honest.



Most of the people I know who object are just normal Aussies who do not want to see out natural heritage raped and pillaged without any controls or restrictions in place. We may never stop development but at least we can maintain some control.



Bad things happen when good people do nothing.


Bob

That is it exactly - people who sit by and do nothing when they see a wrong taking place are just as bad as the instigators of the wrong - I may not always succeed in making a difference, but I will go to my grave knowing I at least tried.

Apparently they were given the all clear today to go ahead and mine - http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/ ... myg0x.html

It's always been and always will be called progress.

It is staggering how the preservation of the Earth should be such a complete no-brainer and yet this happens time and time again everywhere, seemingly without balance or control and despite all protests. This is very well said Maureen - good on you!

Sadly Neville it is - but of course it isn't

Thank you Katherine

Interesting quote at Revelation 11:18

But the nations became wrathful, and your own wrath came, and the appointed time came for the dead to be judged and to reward your slaves the prophets and the holy ones and those fearing your name, the small and the great, and to bring to ruin those ruining the earth.”

Enjoyed the read Maureen.