Toondah Project – perspectives and questions about the Draft EIS

Redlands2030 continues to publish perspectives and questions reflecting community views about the Toondah Project which attracted about 25,000 objections during the recent Draft EIS consultation process.

If you have something to say about the proposed Toondah project, or any other matter, email your letter to theeditor@admin

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My Toondah Project question

My question is: why do we need to shop next to Moreton Bay waters in shops that replace many environmental homes and roaming areas?

Butt ugly big concrete hideous rectangles all the way from Cleveland to the ocean!!

Who allowed this blight to develop bit by ugly bit across the once green landscape?

This Toondah Project is a CRIME, most hideous and destructive!!

Blind, greedy, immature idiots like this sort of disease !!

Where do the animals /birds /dugong /fish/koalas-etc etc go to eat and relax and bring up their families??

This council are evil greedy destroyers!! 

Can they (Council and the proponent) be stopped???

N.L.
Cleveland

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Are we too nice and polite?

Maybe us locals are being too nice and polite with our protests against the oversized development proposed for Toondah Harbour. 

Maybe we should have a larger publicity scheme like the ‘Voice’ as all citizens have a right to be heard.  No one seems to be hearing us and maybe we also need to ask more indigenous people from Stradbroke to help with the ‘fuss’. 

People not living in the area or being impacted by this huge development going on for the next 20 years should not have the final say.  We are the ones with the future traffic problems, noise and all disadvantages, not to mention the birds and sea life disappearing. 

G.H.
Raby Bay

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Koalas unlikely to survive Toondah

From my view in Brisbane, the draft Toondah EIS looks poor quality and fails to satisfy the Guidelines

It’s heartening to see the massive community response and the alliance rallying to keep Redlands ‘naturally wonderful’ and stop Walker Group’s greedy plans to destroy Toondah’s Ramsar wetland and foreshore koala colony.  

The tide of public opinion has turned against this ‘clearly unacceptable’ development (change.org petition has over 60,000 signatures) that requires dredging over 500,000 cubic metres and removing 49.5ha of the Moreton Bay Marine Park.

This area is home to, and feeds, the Eastern Curlew and Great Knot (critically endangered) and threatened species including two other shorebirds, the loggerhead turtle, green turtle, hawksbill turtle, dugong and humpback dolphin.

The Redlands icon, the endangered koala is unlikely to survive if 19 of their food trees are removed and traffic increases by around 20,000 movements per day.  

If we can’t save this internationally significant (including to First Nations people) Ramsar wetland on the Australasian East Asian Flyway inside the Moreton Bay Marine Park with a foreshore koala colony, what will our governments protect?  

It’s disturbing we’ve had to wait over four years to comment on a developer-funded EIS that must be submitted to them rather than the government.

Meanwhile, governments have fast-tracked planning approvals for this ‘asset sale’ and signed agreements to appoint their political donor ‘preferred developer’ of this publicly owned land.

Instead of causing permanent and irreversible damage, let’s keep Redland’s unique bay and island views and build a smaller-scale residential/commercial development and upgraded terminal out of the Marine and koala parks.

Once it’s gone it’s gone, please save the Bay.

D.O.
Brisbane

More Toondah Project Comments

Cumulative Impact, Privatisation, And Political Donations

Local Residents Say NO To Toondah

Toondah Hotline, Earthquake Risks And G.J. Walter Park In Letters

Redlands2030 – 14 January 2023