The Richmond Valley Council General Manager Mr Ernie Walker - Suss as!

People just kept coming

Stacks of people opposed to the Metgasco Gas company coming to drill anywhere near this beautiful area of the north coast of New South Wales.   They converged 7 weeks ago starting off with a simple daily information kiosk under at tarp with a table and information and has grown to the large size it is now as more and more find out about what is going on here under there noses.  Because there were so many people they applied for a DA and have been given permission to camp on Mr Scalapinos farm. which is the farm adjacent to where the rig wants to move in and he also opposes this mining and wants to protect his land.

BENTLEY FROM THE AIR Jen Lewis - FACEBOOK

 One person said : What a beautifully run, clean and functional camp....this is what the police and council want to shut down....welcome to the tactics used by the South African apartheid government...as well as mining by martial law...

Graham the land owner who wants the gas has proffered many lies to the public as well and he is severely unaware of the truth of this industry as well.   I heard him say, "They do it in Queensland and there hasn't been a problem"   When he said that I knew he had no real idea of the truth of the industry and that when I heard him say that I had just gotten off the telephone from a mother who is in one of those gas fields and all there water has to be brought in now as their bore is contaminated and no one admits fault for this.  I was fuming listening to him speak rubbish and sound so immature and uneducated.

Recently the Richmond Valley Council gave a Development Approval for a camp site on the Scalapino property but they are now they are not going to renew it as of Friday (Today).   

The waters get muddy when we find out the person behind these grand plans to stop the protestors is none other than the notorious Mr Ernie Walker of  the NRMA / THRIFTY farce which is being investigated by ICAC.  Corporate confidentiality will not hold up in this because it was a public company they were fiddling with.  The plans soured and now he turns up on the RVC as the General Manager.  Something smells of a rat to me.  Someone owes someone something.  What is that though?

Yesterday Ernie Walker the General Manager of the Richmond Valley Council went on the ABC Radio and said a lot of rubbish that was a bunch of complete twaddle and barefaced lies and he talked about busting the camp up at Bentley and not re issuing a DA for the most hilarious reasons I have ever heard.  

This man is doing the dirty work for Metgasco and he has been planted in this job for this explicit purpose.

Here is the transcript of what he had to say:

General manager John Walker says council conditions have been ignored, and an application to increase the site's capacity will be rejected.

"That application has been assessed and has been opposed by people who have a fairly strong influence, such as the police, the RMS and our planners themselves," he said.

"It unfortunately is not of an appropriate quality and the proposed use will not be approved.

"As it's grown... it's become something different from a primitive site.
"There are many, many aspects of the conditions that were applied to it that are not being adhered to, and it's just an inappropriate mechanism for any approval.

"A primitive camp site does not allow for example cooking.

"It has limited capacity in terms of toilet facilities, it doesn't provide for washing, it didn't allow music for example.

"It didn't allow other activities that are there, it certainly put some conditions on controlling people moving along the roadway, the main Lismore-Kyogle road.

"All of which are not being adhered to."

 Lock the Gate have made it clear they are not moving.  The people of the area number around 87% who vehemently oppose this industry and they are adamant they are not going down without a fight for the rights of the people and the environment and the culture of the area.  They know they are in for a dirty fight here.

"I think people will continue to do civil disobedience and do what they have to do and what they came for,  If the laws of this land are used against us to facilitate mining by martial law, then people will take appropriate non-violent direct action.
Ian Gaillard

Most protectors have done NVDA workshops and are well aware of Non Violent Direct Action.  The camp is running very well and it is clean and hygenic and there is a high value placed on all safety issues.  

Right now I think Mr Ernie Walker will be feeling a tad sorry he threatened those protectors out at Bentley while he endeavors to cover up his filthy past issues in business.  It poses questions in ones mind like who it is he owes favors too in the Mining industry?  This could have occurred in his vulnerable days of going broke in the Car Rental business and he was thrown a lifeline and all he had to do was deliver here at Bentley.