East Gippsland Shire Council proposes a large scale breakwater and boat ramp development at Bastion Point, Mallacoota. The Save Bastion Point coalition works to protect the many values of Bastion Point, to promote safe and sustainable use of the area and to oppose inappropriate development on the Bastion Point headland (taken from http://www.savebastionpoint.org )
IMHO -
Given the dynamic nature of the ocean, the unpredicability of the ocean's reaction to change (as demonstrated in Port Philip Bay after the dredging and numerous other sites where human intervention has been buried or demolished by natural forces along the seafront) and the reports from independant investigators, the notion that this momentous redesigning of the beach and natural rock formations at Bastion Point can have measurable and predictable outcomes is gross human folly and the ultimate in human vanity.
This landscape has been sculpted over eons and is constantly reshaped by wind and water. Even if we cannot measure the changes over a few months or years, any beachcomber can see how sand responds to small changes on the beach - what changes will come from this monsterous project? Can anyone say with certainty?
It seems that the East Gippsland Shire Council has commissioned four reports - maybe they are hoping that they will find a team of investigators to agree to support the proposal. Why? What have they got to gain from going ahead with the proposal?
What have they got to lose? See here - http://savebastionpoint.org/bastion-point/gallery/
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