NSW - state sponsord scam
Bringing them all to justice By mauricefurlan@gmail.com 0434976664
Shown below are two entries in the Wakool Shire Register. They describe the same project. Both are fraudulent because the first which was advertised for public comment as shown right was not refused and the second has not been concluded. They were made many months apart and the second was not advertised.
In the speech below Small told the House of Parliament that Waterhouse Enterprises had not undertaken an environmental impact study and so council opposed the develelopment. However 10 months earlier the newspaper publish a letter by the Shire President to the Department of Planning. In this letter Crawford stated that a substantial Environmental Report had been prepared by the applicant. The purpose of the article was to call on State authorities to take over the approval process. The rest of Small's statements are generally misleading and untrue.
Small told Parliament that he was asked to support the Botel application. In actual fact he was very supportive of the project and even wrote to the various agencies. He wrote to Maritime calling on them to provide a much needed houseboat sewerage pumpout. This was something Waterhouse had long campaigned for.
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Two years followed the small letters and Waterhouse provided more and more studies including a Local Environment Plan a second more detailed study for a Crown Land Lease and rezoning of the river bed. Waterhouse realized that state politics was behind the blatant maladministration and media campaign denigrating the project at ever point. With little more to loose construction of the large unit began on the river in view of the bridge and at the intended and most practical botel site. To his credit the regional Maritime manager broke ranks and wrote the following carefully worded letter. He was encouraging commercial marine development and permitted the construction to proceed. Sadly council threatened and prevented a crane from lifting the final section of the structure.
It was around this time that second development application entry appeared by deceptive means. The later fraudulent application was then rejected but entered as the first in the register.
Waterhouse then asked their solicitors to appealed the decision in the NSW Land and Environment Court. The case failed with the finding that it was not properly commenced. Waterhouse was not made aware nor invited to the telephone conferences or hearings.
The notice on the right is a good example of the scam documents that still exist despite much official shredding over the recent years. It does not carry a letterhead nor the official seal of a legal document. The signature does not indicate the name of the person issuing it although the position of the issuer is described. It appears that the unnamed John Hensford was demoted. It is clear Hensford ordered the removal of the botel units because the mooring license was cancelled with no explanation. But there no botel units on the river only commercial vessels which he had approved earlier.
Small said the botel was upstream of Barham along a beautiful sandbar. It was in Barham adjacent the caravan park on te wasteland outside the protection of the town levee bank. it was overgrown with willow trees (Weeds). There wasn't a beautiful sandbar to be seen but rather a muddy area shown in the following pictures.
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Small said the river was very narrow but it was very wide there.
He also said
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