LATE last year councillors resolved on a position with a controversial topic “sea level rise”. A position was agreed on, with a 7-2 vote.
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The position agreed on suited the NSW Government, the Office of Environment and Heritage.
After the council resolved on a position I wrote to the Minister for the Environment, Rob Stokes, raising the likelihood of state government-funded compensation to property owners who believed they would be impacted on financially as a result of the state government-endorsed council sea-level rise policy.
The matter I raised with Minister Stokes about the likelihood of government-funded compensation remains unanswered, even though he or his office passed the correspondence onto the Office of Environment and Heritage for a reply.
I received a letter dated January 14 from the Office of Environment and Heritage executive director of policy on January 20 with no indication of how compensation will or won’t be considered in the long run.
All the Minister did was flick the matter to someone else for a response.
It’s clear from the reply the politicians aren’t running the government senior back room public servants are.
Allan Brown
Batemans Bay
