A DEAL IS A DEAL: PROTECT POINT PERON

In 1964 Point Peron was transferred from the Commonwealth to the State of WA on the condition it be protected in a reserve and used only ‘for recreation and/or park lands’.

But the WA Government has torn up this 50 year old Agreement and wants to turn this pristine bay south of Perth into a marina and canal estate, with developer Cedar Woods.

Senator Ludlam asked the minister representing the Minister for the Environment, in writing, on 12 November 2013:

With reference to the 29 April 2013 conditional approval by the Western Australia Environmental Protection Agency to the Mangles Bay Marina project in Cape Peron being assessed bilaterally under the Environmental Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (the Act):

On World Environment Day Western Australian senator Scott Ludlam has warned that a Coalition-controlled Federal Parliament would spell disaster for WA's environment.

"The Barnett Government's record on environmental matters is appalling: They pushed the destruction of James Price Point; approved a plan for a uranium mine on a river bed that floods intermittently; have given the go ahead to destroying Point Peron; and back expanded coal mining and more coal-fired power generation in the state's South West.