Orange City Council is in the process of giving half-a-million dollars of our rate payers' money to a firm of consultants to investigate a proposal for the Canobolas Mountain Bike Track.
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The proponents are determined to get their way in converting the conservation area in to a mountain bike precinct and nature can go hang.
A recent photo shows Phil Donato with the "stakeholders" of the Mountain Bike Trail. Phil Donato prides himself in "continuing to work behind the scenes in advancing Orange City Council's Mount Canobolas Mountain Bike Trails initiative", as he said in last week's Matters of State column.
Why doesn't the council acknowledge that there is a sizeable opposition to this particular project but not to mountain biking in general?
There have been several times that senior representatives of the council have promoted their agenda to politicians in the presence of people pushing for the track, without any people there who wish to preserve the mountain's integrity.
This is very insulting.
Certain people seem to have invested so much effort in attempting to commercialise the mountain that they cannot bring themselves to entertain any alternative venue.
Mount Canobolas is within a State Conservation Area which has a unique and fragile natural environment, an island of sanity in a rapidly urbanised landscape.
Leave it alone.
Peter Toedter
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