Can Byron Council please submit to The Echo and Byron Shire ratepayers evidence that the required public interest democratic process required for the approved erection of the bioenergy facility in the Arts & Industry Estate, was totally favoured by the community? There exists within Council such a statement. The area is under preparation presently with trucks in and out of the site.
Justice demands such evidence as, indeed, the initial public interest process revealed that one party was keen and over 60 other persons strongly objected!
A big ‘porky’ has arisen that would appear to have seduced Byron councillors. Maybe they have not done research revealing rate-payers’ strong objection to the folly surrounding the erection of a methane-spewing fire hazard situated near a bird sanctuary and plonked in the middle of a growing business/residential/tourist site. Furthermore, Council claims a descent into fiscal poverty, yet through lamenting tears this vile monster is being given time and wasted ratepayers’ money in Council representation and elitist $$$ brown nosing. Council is seeking an investor! This behaviour is beyond naughty… this behaviour demands immediate legal scrutiny. Why go through all of the pretence of ticking boxes on the democratic process and then immediately dismissing public risk and rights and manufacturing a document wrongly upholding public approval for the bioenergy facility?
