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Save Mt Coot-tha

Locality: Toowong

Address: Mt Coot-tha road 4066 Toowong, QLD, Australia

Website: http://www.SaveMtCoot-tha.org

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21.01.2022 The Real Goldmine at Mt Coot-tha is the Tourism. We have now completed all of our Mt Coot-tha Quarry (MCQ) research and emailed both the Lord Mayor plus the BCC CEO. Our research shows a fantastic facility for creating employment from tourism and improved parkland lifestyle for everyone, by rehabilitating the MCQ. We have also highlighted the increasing cost of continuing with "Blasting Tourism", when this was never economically viable. Hence our financial case is very compel...ling, so hopefully sanity will prevail at City Hall. Both the political (CPV) and regulatory (QHRC) landscapes have drastically changed in 2020. See more

21.01.2022 The Mt Coot-tha Local Residents (MCLR) complaint to the BCC CEO Mr Colin Jensen can be seen here. http://www.mtcoot-tha.org/BCC-CEO-Complaint.htm By 2032 we estimate that the financial loss at Mt Coot-tha will be double the BCC annual budget and one quarter of the entire asset base.

20.01.2022 On the 18th June 2020, the Brisbane City Council Mt Coot-tha Gravel-Quarry Manager (Mr Robert Bell), created the strongest ever measured seismic blast at the Quarry, which is located in public trust tourism precinct parkland. This seismic event sounded like a massive bomb explosion actually inside the Local Residents Private Homes. This seismic blast level inside the private homes homes was 6 TIMES THE NORMAL QLD, AUSTRALIAN & CONTEMPORARY MAXIMUM BLAST LEVELS, AND GREATLY EX...CEEDS THE MAXIMUMS AS DEFINED BY THE USA BUREAU OF MINES (USBM). The Local Residents are in "the fight of their life" to save their homes from further damage. They have been forced to live with this and exist in "Battle Mode" for more than 20 years, because the Quarry Closure date was secretly extended, by the Lord Mayor until 2032, with no public consultation & no public notifications. The Local Residents thus estimated the final rehabilitation cost as $500 Million and the Lost Tourism Benefit as $5,500 Million ($6 Billion total), as a massive long term cost to all of Brisbane and their Ratepayers. We are advised that the gravel sales customers regularly provide political donations. Because road gravel is common, inexpensive & recyclable, we believe that the primary reason for the quarry blasting is to sustain the political donations from their gravel customers. This despicable act is in line with the earlier statement by Cr Judy Magub "The Council shows Callous Disregard for the Local Residents". www.MtCoot-tha.org See more

19.01.2022 Back in 2016 the local residents (MCLR) had a Close the Quarry meeting in Steven Miles office. Immediately following that the VCC operated Mt Coot-tha Quarry (MCQ) Manager Mr Robert Bell created the strongest blast for 10 years as our punishment. Move forward to 2020 when the MCLR boldly stepped forward to create the first Rehabilitation Estimate of $300 million, plus the Lost Tourism Benefit of $3 Billion. (By 2032 this secret Brisbane ratepayer debt will have increased to a massive $6BILLION. ) So this time our punishment for the MCLR economic disaster research, in June and July Mt Bell restarted the MCQ blasting with two extremely strong blasts. Each punishment blast was greater that any previously known blast, thus causing private home vibrations more than 4 times the contemporary blast vibration maximum.

18.01.2022 Email to Lord Mayor Schrinner and Cr Howard. In this email we mention the 300% faking of blast vibration reporting, followed by a further 260% misrepresentation. This is followed by our estimated $500 Million Rehabilitation Cost (in 2032), plus a $5.5 Billion "Blasting the Tourists" Lost Benefit, plus our Mt Coot-tha Fact Sheet. www.SaveMtCoot-tha.org//EmailToLnpCouncillorsAndCandidates www.SaveMtCoot-tha.org//EmailToLmSchrinnerAndCrHoward-Marc www.SaveMtCoot-tha.org//MtCoot-tha-FactSheet-March-2020.pdf

18.01.2022 Please Like our Mt Coot-tha Facebook site. We work very hard for zero money and are strictly honest. Looking at the recent quarry photo, it seems that the BCC is ready to attack tourism yet again. However the regulatory goalposts have now moved, no longer cay the MCQ hide behind the (public donations) Qld Labor DES, because their donations from the quarry users places the DES in a corrupt or unfair category, hence the QHRC rules invalidate them. With the QLD Greens likely to increase their QLD MP numbers (because they are both honest , friendly and refuse political donations), they may hold the balance of power after October.

17.01.2022 Thank you everybody for all your recent comments: 1. Many people are not aware that the Mt Coot-tha Quarry (MCQ) is rapidly running out of gravel to mine. 2. Comments such as "nimby" and "it has been there for decades" are totally off-topic, as both the Lord Mayor and Mt Coot-tha Neighborhood Plan clearly state that the BCC is committed to full rehab solution. Question 1: Who will pay the $500 million bill to rehabilitate this huge deep dangerous hole, back into public-trust... parkland, from whence it came? (= 16% of the entire BCC budget). Question 2: Will the BCC acknowledge, that there is a $Billion Lost Employment and Benefit, which is clearly indicated at other rehabilitated quarries?

12.01.2022 RPQ ASPHALT SHOULD STOP USING MCQ GRAVEL. We have written an email to RPQ Asphalt, who are one of the main users of Mt Coot-tha Quarry (MCQ) Asphalt. We have explained to them that by using MCQ Gravel they are not responsibly sourcing their gravel, because the rehabilitation and lost tourism debts greatly exceed the value of the gravel being mined. We have asked them to stop using MCQ gravel and ignore all lies which are told by the MCQ Manager. Page-1 screen shot can be seen below, plus the entire email can be seen here: http://www.savemtcoot-tha.org//EmailTo-RPQ-Asphalt-25-June

10.01.2022 BCC Total Failure of Economic Due Diligence at Mt Coot-tha Quarry and DOGIT (Deed of Grant in Trust) Parklands. We are amazed that such a large and economically controlled organization can "totally loose the plot" regarding the $BILLIONS of Rehabilitation Cost & Lost Tourism Benefit. This is of course the BCC Secret Debt, which has the potential to become the GREATEST LOCAL GOVERNMENT ECONOMIC FAILURE IN THE ENTIRE HISTORY OF AUSTRALIA. It is not surprising that the recent Local Government Election showed an 11% swing towards the Qld Greens Donna Burns. If not for Covid-19 many people believe she would have won the Brisbane Paddington ward.

09.01.2022 Cr Matic and the "Faulty Towers" of Brisbane. Cr Matic states that the Mt Coot-tha Quarry (MCQ) is "NIMBY" . But as Toowong Councillor 2007-2016, his MCQ blasted 8 million tonnes of inexpensive gravel, costing much more to rehabilitate back to tourism parkland, and which could have been provided by other non-tourism-precinct quarries. Meanwhile in UK, the Eden Quarry Rehab Project was creating $200 million Annual Financial Benefit - Forever - Plus thousands of new jobs & education. However in Brisbane "Faulty Towers", the ratepayer funded MCQ Rehab Cost increases rapidly every year, from continued blast damage & ignored rehab.

05.01.2022 On the topic of "Quarries are mine sites. There is so much regulation, your dog wouldn't be able to jump over it." Please try to understand that because the Mt Coot-tha Quarry (MCQ) is operated by the LNP Brisbane City Council and regulated by the Labor State Government, it is a "political football" and not some ordinary mine site. This means that the companies who profit from their gravel can donate money to the Qld Labor Party, to assure their "regulated success". The Electoral Commission website shows that Downer EDI, who buys a large amount of the MCQ gravel, has regularly donated to Qld Labor, plus we believe there are many others. (A known fact of Qld politics.) Hence the MCQ regulation is virtually an auction process, where unless the unfinancial local residents provide larger donations to Qld Labor, they never stand a chance.

01.01.2022 MASSIVE ECONOMIC SCANDAL REPORT to LNP. We detailed the non-compliant Mt Coot-tha Quarry (MCQ) activities, plus provided an MCQ Fact Sheet. Emailed to all the LNP Councillors & Candidates. 1. Faking their blast vibration reporting by 300% for decades, and then later by another 260%. 2. Hence LM Quirk "Disengaged" the Local Residents. 3. Using non-standard inaccurate Blast Monitoring to hide the true blast vibration values. Never best-practice.... 4. Never measuring any of the hundreds of massive choking Silica blast-dust clouds. 5. Never measuring their operational noise, thus ignoring their defined maximums. 6. Never measuring their blast effects on private homes, thus ignoring their defined maximums. 7. The 2032 rehab debt is $500 Million, which is almost double the value of all rock exported for 20 years. 8. They continue to ignore other tourism-based usages. 9. The tourism economic benefit at other rehab sites, defines a $5.5 Billion missed benefit at Mt Coot-tha, by 2032 (the current BCC closure date). 10. Adding the Missed Benefit to the Rehab Debt, shows a difference of $6 BILLION. This is Double the BCC Annual Budget and Half the QLD State Budget. This is a MASSIVE ECONOMIC SCANDAL. The PDF versions of the images below, can be found here www.SaveMtCoot-tha.org See more

01.01.2022 This week at Mt Coot-tha. We have added one extra Lithium Ion Phosphate battery to our Uni of Qld designed, Brisbane made, home residence RedbackTech Solar Power system. The total of 8.3 KW Hours of battery energy was able to continue powering our house until after midnight. Looking at the chart, you can see the dark-green line on the chart which is the battery state-of-charge Percentage %, which increases during the morning and then discharges after sunset. The light green l...ine is the battery power flow, which in the morning is negative because energy is being lost (from the home), as it is transferred to charge up the battery. The Orange line is the solar power and you can see that when the solar power increases, the battery charge percentage % also increases. However after sunset, the charged battery (dark green) starts to take over, so the charge percentage % reduces. The Grey line is the Grid Power, which initially is negative as early morning power is drained from the grid into the home. However when the solar power is active, the grid power becomes slightly positive as the panels provide the power. When the battery is fully charged, the grey line then becomes much more positive, as energy is fed into the grid. After sunset, the grey line sits around zero because the batteries are taking over from the solar panel power. We hope that this provides a visualization of the role that solar batteries can provide, to power your homes during the grid peak-usage period. Please advise if you have any questions. See more

01.01.2022 It is absolutely insane that the Mt Coot-tha Quarry should continue to damage Brisbane tourism and parkland. After thousands of hours work by the Local Residents, researching and providing details about how the "secret" rehabilitation cost is already at $300million and the lost benefit from tourism is $3Billion (since 2000), the BCC Lord Mayor Schrinner has ignored all of our data and allowed blasting to continue. We know that Qld Labor gets political donations from the organization that uses the gravel. Perhaps the LNP also gets these donations, because there is no valid reason why the asphalt companies cannot get road gravel from local quarries. We have been totally ignored and all we received was a notice of blast for last Thursday.