WPPC inc initiated the protection of Devilbend, ( Daargean)........ and won!
History
.Westernport Peninsula Protection Council Inc WPPC Inc.
• In Dec 30th 1970 there was a protest rally against the Ampol-Sleigh proposed refinery at Bittern, 600 people attended a meeting on Balnarring Race Track.
• The First formal meeting of the WPPC Jan 4th 1971. Our group is 37 years old
• We have approximately 300 members
Our Principle Objectives are
To engage in, support and promote:
• regional and local planning
• conservation of natural resources, including fauna and flora
• studies of the effects of pollution of all kinds
• the protection of the environment.
…of Westernport, the Mornington Peninsula and elsewhere.
In 1987 WPPC Inc. were the leading group in the successful campaign against The Western Mining Corporation Ammonia–Urea plant proposal on the BP site using the Crib Point Jetty. Later a key campaigner in that campaign, Rosy Buchanan became president of our group.
1992 Super tanker proposal for same BP site. Shell-Mobil bought it for a major oil import facility. Again an angry public put evidence on the table including the Shapiro report. We were key campaigners again in this campaign and in due course the Shell company advised our President Dr Brian Cuming, in a personal call from the Head Quarters in Holland that the plan was to be shelved indefinitely.
From there there was bipartisan support for a statement from the minister for planning Tom Roper that it was inappropriate for such an industry to develop there, and secoundly that a policy should be adopted which later became enshrined below….
We participated in government planning via The Westernport Regional Planning and Co-ordination Committee. The main planning change as a result of that same campaign was Document 1 below. Which we saw as a victory and we have never forgotten, and we will never forget, because there is so much sense to it.
Another effort which WPPC initiated and were deeply involved in the three years 1988, 1989 and 1990 were the three Seagrass festivals which involved large puppets, hundreds of school children and massive community participation to celebrate the environmental values of Westernport Bay 1990.
Dr Brian Cuming Past President and research fellow of WPPC Inc,40 years resident of Bittern “I have always had great faith that the Hastings, Crib Point, Stony Point area would become a thriving residential area with great lifestyle facilities. Providing recreation for the region.
In the last ten years this has really happened. Pelican Park, and the Petersen Bookshop symbolizes modern Hastings/Crib point,
Let us not spoil it with corruptions”
• In Dec 30th 1970 there was a protest rally against the Ampol-Sleigh proposed refinery at Bittern, 600 people attended a meeting on Balnarring Race Track.
• The First formal meeting of the WPPC Jan 4th 1971. Our group is 37 years old
• We have approximately 300 members
Our Principle Objectives are
To engage in, support and promote:
• regional and local planning
• conservation of natural resources, including fauna and flora
• studies of the effects of pollution of all kinds
• the protection of the environment.
…of Westernport, the Mornington Peninsula and elsewhere.
In 1987 WPPC Inc. were the leading group in the successful campaign against The Western Mining Corporation Ammonia–Urea plant proposal on the BP site using the Crib Point Jetty. Later a key campaigner in that campaign, Rosy Buchanan became president of our group.
1992 Super tanker proposal for same BP site. Shell-Mobil bought it for a major oil import facility. Again an angry public put evidence on the table including the Shapiro report. We were key campaigners again in this campaign and in due course the Shell company advised our President Dr Brian Cuming, in a personal call from the Head Quarters in Holland that the plan was to be shelved indefinitely.
From there there was bipartisan support for a statement from the minister for planning Tom Roper that it was inappropriate for such an industry to develop there, and secoundly that a policy should be adopted which later became enshrined below….
We participated in government planning via The Westernport Regional Planning and Co-ordination Committee. The main planning change as a result of that same campaign was Document 1 below. Which we saw as a victory and we have never forgotten, and we will never forget, because there is so much sense to it.
Another effort which WPPC initiated and were deeply involved in the three years 1988, 1989 and 1990 were the three Seagrass festivals which involved large puppets, hundreds of school children and massive community participation to celebrate the environmental values of Westernport Bay 1990.
Dr Brian Cuming Past President and research fellow of WPPC Inc,40 years resident of Bittern “I have always had great faith that the Hastings, Crib Point, Stony Point area would become a thriving residential area with great lifestyle facilities. Providing recreation for the region.
In the last ten years this has really happened. Pelican Park, and the Petersen Bookshop symbolizes modern Hastings/Crib point,
Let us not spoil it with corruptions”