Is Moolap a place for birds or for development?
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They are arguing still about the old salt flats between Newcomb and Point Henry. I'm for the birds actually as I dislike over-development.
Red-necked Avocets and Banded Stilts at the Moolap wetlands in Geelong. Photo: Eddie Jim
They are arguing still about the old salt flats between Newcomb and Point Henry. I'm for the birds actually as I dislike over-development.
Red-necked Avocets and Banded Stilts at the Moolap wetlands in Geelong. Photo: Eddie Jim
TO SOME it is an old industrial
wasteland waiting for redevelopment as a modern residential estate. To others
it is a bird-watching paradise and one of the state's ecological marvels.
Unlikely as it sounds, the old
Moolap salt works - a few kilometres outside Geelong, and not far from the
Point Henry aluminium smelter - is the site of an emerging environmental
battle.
Agricultural products company
Ridley - owners of the salt works, which was mothballed in 2007 - is proposing
a massive property development over about half of the 465-hectare site.
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