tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8708428768586378687.post4292254642463854897..comments2023-08-04T01:53:37.373+10:00Comments on Evacuation Grounds: Pot holes to developmentGeoffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16952473688008286364noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8708428768586378687.post-76979069736899869492013-09-05T20:56:02.406+10:002013-09-05T20:56:02.406+10:00Officer-in-charge of the Wandoan police station Se...Officer-in-charge of the Wandoan police station Sergeant Garry Stephen gave more statistic of the increase in traffic and accidents in an article in the September 5 issue of the Chinchilla News, Man dies on busy highway.<br /><br /><i>"Sgt Stephen documented a 156% rise in accidents between 2011 and 2012, and another rise of 23% between 2012 and 2013.<br />"It is primary the routes used by the resource sector- the Leichardt Hwy, Jackson/ Wandoan Rd, Nathan Rd and Roach Creek Rd.<br />We are trending towards single vehicle accidents, involving utes and heavy loads. They constitute 60% of our accidents."<br />He said the increase was due to the magnitude of industry in what was once a quiet, rural town."</i> Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08937219469312905632noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8708428768586378687.post-61079153147944464732013-09-02T10:07:35.501+10:002013-09-02T10:07:35.501+10:00Peter Beattie has a lot to answer for with his for...Peter Beattie has a lot to answer for with his forced amalgamations. Hopefully, Queenslanders will remember that on Saturday and he and Rudd are out on their ears like the recycled has-beens they really are.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08872846095279685146noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8708428768586378687.post-83258706119265821162013-09-02T06:31:25.012+10:002013-09-02T06:31:25.012+10:00Most of the resource companies have now contribute...Most of the resource companies have now contributed some millions to WDRC for repairs to roads that these companies have caused. Some of these companies are voicing concern that they believe that WDRC is not spending all this money on the actual roads that they are using and some is going elsewhere.<br /><br />In an information page that the forum convenor sent out before the meeting it was stated that WDRC are raking off the top of these funds contributed by resource companies 30% for administration which is over the top for larger projects. <br /><br />There is much concern amongst ratepayers of an ever increasing WDRC bureaucracy and petty titles and procures.<br /><br />There is some odd paper trail you are suppose to follow to report a road in bad repair. Once you just rang up the local councillor, there is now no councillor living in the Wandoan community. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08937219469312905632noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8708428768586378687.post-20541717666170015062013-09-02T06:16:13.368+10:002013-09-02T06:16:13.368+10:00Peter you will be witnessing how much traffic pipe...Peter you will be witnessing how much traffic pipeline construction can generate. Those same two pipe projects went close passed where I live and at their height caused a great deal of inconvenience and road damage.<br /><br />I just open my latest rates notice that came in the mail on Friday. In the information booklet WDRC informs the reader that general rates are now based on a 3 year valuation averaging "to limit the impact of the new property sales that took effect from 1 July 2011, 1 July 2012 and 1 July 2013."<br /><br />Rural property away from any resource company buy ups has actually decreased in value in the last 12 months.<br /><br />Karen I believe that rates up in the Wandoan district that was the southern end of the old Taroom Shire have risen more than 50%. After amalgamation WDRC brought in a policy of phasing parity of rates as a percentage of unimproved valuation between all the different old shire areas. If memory serve me correctly Wambo had the higher rating and Taroom the lowest. Up this end we will be seeing the most increase in rates. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08937219469312905632noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8708428768586378687.post-1005330630229267872013-09-02T00:47:24.271+10:002013-09-02T00:47:24.271+10:00A couple of years ago they changed the method of r...A couple of years ago they changed the method of rating from unimproved value to a valuation based on the recent sale of properties. Your land value (and consequently your rates) would now be set on the sale of properties which have been purchased by the LNG/CSG companies or other purchasers in your area.<br />If any of the land purchased by them was above the normal prices paid it increases your valuations.<br />Probably previously there would have been a case for reduction of valuations because it could be argued that the presence of the gas industry would affect the unimproved valuations of properties.<br />With the valuations now based on land sales, the argument of devaluation because of the presence of this dirty industry no longer applies.<br />Our valuations in my home town went up 124% in 2 years, based on the sale of 2 vacant lots of land in the town in spite of the fact that the Government has frozen our town and will not permit any development in the town and they also imposed a "management control zone" around the town to ensure that they had total control over the town.<br />There is no valid reason why the town is frozen but a bloody minded senior person in then Gladstone industries convinced the Govt that they should freeze the town and they refuse to lift the freeze.<br />The reason given was that if Mt Larcom was to be allowed to develop residential lands, it would sow the seeds for the demise of the entire 40,000 hectare State Development Area and with it the the loss of employment and training opportunities for thousands of Gladstone area residents. Our town does not adjoin the State Development Area.<br /><br />up to 4 of the gas pipe lines will now run within 2 kms of the town in spite of the fact that they had to deviate quite a way to put it where it is. 2 are currently under construction. The LNG mob really do not give a bugger how much they hurt people as long as they get their pockets full of money to take away overseas.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11495780706478301480noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8708428768586378687.post-27370925345081711582013-09-01T11:24:11.650+10:002013-09-01T11:24:11.650+10:00Excellent article. As a ratepayer in WDRC (We Don&...Excellent article. As a ratepayer in WDRC (We Don't Really Care) my rates have increased by close to 40% in just 2 years. We in Chinchilla are not seeing any benefits of rate rises, only the negatives from the hideous increase in traffic, the failure of town planners and the impact on the surrounding environment, fauna and flora. What a disaster.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03219018154957733874noreply@blogger.com