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South West Tasmania Action Committee
South West Tasmania Action Committee was a group started after the flooding of the lake in South West Tasmania known as Lake Pedder to create the Gordon Dam catchment. It developed into an Australia wide organisation. In 1976 it evolved into the Tasmanian Wilderness Society. In Tasmania, the small, informal South-West Action Committee that formed in Hobart in 1974 (after the flooding of Lake Pedder and out of the Lake Pedder Action Committee) was the forerunner of The Wilderness Society (1976) ... In June 1976 members of the South-West Action Committee met at Liffey and decided to rev up this radical grassroots organisation. A follow-up meeting in Hobart in August saw the formalisation of a new organisation, the Tasmanian Wilderness Society (TWS),with Kevin Kiernan as Director Despite its short life, the committee and organisation was capable of increasing interest in resource and environmental management in Tasmania before the rise of the stages of the Tasmanian Wilderness S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
South West Tasmania
South West Tasmania is a region in Tasmania that has evoked curiosity as to its resources over the duration of European presence on the island. The more recent is the consideration as a potential area of resources for development and its consideration as World Heritage wilderness. The most notable controversies occurring in the region in the late twentieth century was the flooding of Lake Pedder and the proposed damming of the Franklin River by the Franklin Dam. Southwest is a locality that covers most of the region. The locality (and therefore the region) is in the local government areas of Derwent Valley (29%), Huon Valley (20%), Central Highlands (7%) and West Coast (44%). Its central point, near the encircled locality of Strathgordon, is about west of the town of New Norfolk, the administrative centre for the Derwent Valley Council. The 2016 census has a population of 15 for the state suburb of Southwest. Early surveys Most early walks through the region were for disc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lake Pedder
Lake Pedder, once a glacial outwash lake, is a man-made impoundment and diversion lake located in the southwest of Tasmania, Australia. In addition to its natural catchment from the Frankland Range, the lake is formed by the 1972 damming of the Serpentine and Huon rivers by the Hydro Electric Commission of Tasmania for the purposes of hydroelectric power generation. As a result, the flooded Lake Pedder now has a surface area of approximately , making it Tasmania's second largest lake. The original and modified lake In early 20th century the original lake was named after Sir John Pedder, the first Chief Justice of Tasmania. The name of the original lake was officially transferred to the new man-made impoundment. Although the new Lake Pedder incorporates the original lake, it does not resemble it in size, appearance or ecology. The new lake consists of an impoundment contained by three dams: * Serpentine Dam – a high rockfill dam with a concrete upstream face on the Serpe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gordon Dam
The Gordon Dam, also known as the Gordon River Dam, is a major gated double curvature concrete arch dam with a controlled spillway across the Gordon River, located in South West Tasmania, Australia. The impounded reservoir is called Lake Gordon. The dam was constructed in 1974 by the Hydro Electric Corporation (TAS) for the purpose of generating hydro-electric power via the conventional Gordon Power Station located below the dam wall. Features and location The Gordon Dam wall, constructed with of concrete, is long and high, making it the tallest dam in Tasmania and the fifth-tallest in Australia. At 100% capacity the dam wall holds back of water; making Lake Gordon the largest lake in Australia. The surface area of the lake is and the catchment area is . The single controlled spillway is capable of discharging . Approximately 48 arch dams have been built in Australia and only nine have double curvature. Gordon Dam is almost twice the height of the next highest arch dam, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New South Wales
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Tasmanian Wilderness Society
The Tasmanian Wilderness Society was a Tasmanian environmental group that started in 1976 in response to a proposal by the state's Hydro Electric Commission to construct a dam on the Gordon River, downstream from the Franklin River, that led to the Franklin Dam controversy. The group evolved from membership of the South West Tasmania Action Committee and members of the United Tasmania Group. It was active in public protest about the issues of Wilderness, the Franklin River and South West Tasmania. After the Franklin Dam campaign the group changed its name in 1983 to The Wilderness Society (Australia) The Wilderness Society is an Australian, community-based, not-for-profit non-governmental environmental advocacy organisation. Its vision is to "transform Australia into a society that protects, respects and connects with the natural world that .... Notes {{reflist 1976 establishments in Australia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lake Pedder Action Committee
The Lake Pedder Action Committee (also known as the Lake Pedder Action Group) was a Tasmanian environmental group. 1967 An earlier format was the ''Save Lake Pedder National Park Committee'' in 1967. In the early 1970s the state government of Tasmania, led by Eric Reece and its energy agency the Hydro-Electric Commission, planned to dam the upper Gordon River and subsequently flood and enlarge Lake Pedder in South West Tasmania. The committee was active in publications arguing for the preservation of Lake Pedder 1971 The Pedder Pilgrimage committee began in 1971. The LPAC was formed after a public meeting which was called by the Hobart Walking Club following the first weekend in March 1971 when approximately one thousand or more people visited Lake Pedder. This became known as the ''Pedder Pilgrimage''. The origins of the United Tasmania Group were from a LPAC meeting, and from the ''South West Tasmania Action Committee'', also known as the ''South West Tasmania Action Gro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kevin Kiernan (geomorphologist)
Kevin Kiernan is an Australian writer, geomorphologist, and conservationist. He has written about the West Coast Range and Mount Field National Park of Tasmania. His honours thesis at the University of Tasmania was about glaciation in Western Tasmania. His subsequent 1985 Phd thesis was concerned with glaciation in Central Tasmania. In the 1980s he was involved in researching indigenous sites in caves in the South West of Tasmania, including Kutikina Cave He was involved in various overviews of karst - cave environments of Tasmania, and other states of Australia. He was an academic geomorphologist at the University of Tasmania. He has written and co-authored about conservation of glacial landforms. He was one of the individuals present at the change of the focus of the former South West Tasmania Action Committee that led to the founding of the Tasmanian Wilderness Society in 1976, and was the first director.'' The group was established in 1976 from the members of the South ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Helen Gee (environmentalist)
Helen Gee was an Australian author, editor, conservationist and environmental activist. She was also one of the founding members of the Tasmanian Wilderness Society. She was author and editor of two important works in relation to conservation and environment in Tasmania - ''The South West Book'', and ''Fight for the forests''. She had written a book for the Wilderness Society about the Franklin River and Franklin Dam. She collaborated on other works, including a number of papers for the South West Tasmania Resources Survey. She also was involved in the compilation of Tasmanian poetry in ''River of verse''. After her death Bob Brown gave a eulogy at a memorial event in Lindisfarne, Tasmania. Later another item from the pen of Geoff Law Geoff Law is an Tasmanian author, conservationist and environmental activist. He is author of works about conservation and environment in Tasmania. Law has campaigned for wilderness and conservation causes in the West and South West Tasman ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The South West Book
''The South West Book - A Tasmanian Wilderness'' is a book published by the Australian Conservation Foundation in 1978 during concern following the damming of Lake Pedder in Tasmania. It was edited by Helen Gee and Janet Fenton with assistance from Greg Hodge and artwork directed by Chris Cowles. At 308 pages, it was the most comprehensive book concerned with a region from all aspects of its kind in Australian publishing at that time. With over 40 authors of 50 sections as well as chronology of events and bibliography the book covered industrial issues, conservation issues, as well as the development of the bureaucratic and political status of what eventually became the South West Tasmania South West Tasmania is a region in Tasmania that has evoked curiosity as to its resources over the duration of European presence on the island. The more recent is the consideration as a potential area of resources for development and its consid ... World Heritage area. Publication detai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
United Tasmania Group
The United Tasmania Group (UTG) is generally acknowledged as the world's first Green party to contest elections. The party was formed on 23 March 1972, during a meeting of the Lake Pedder Action Committee (LPAC) at the Hobart Town Hall in order to field political candidates in the April 1972 state election. 1970s UTG contested ten state and federal elections between 1972 and 1977, with the highest vote of 9.9% in the Legislative Council election with Rod Broadby in 1975 (see Appendix 4, UTG Journal Issue No. 6, 2021). The United Tasmania Group's first President was Dr Richard Jones and it lasted for five years, briefly reforming in 1990 for the federal election. A few of the 1970s candidates, including Bob Brown, went on to form the Tasmanian Greens and then ultimately, at the national level, the Australian Greens. 2010s On 2 April 2016 following a meeting, former members of the party re-started the group. The United Tasmania Group launched The UTG Journal in 2018. The journ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Environmental Organisations Based In Tasmania
A biophysical environment is a biotic and abiotic surrounding of an organism or population, and consequently includes the factors that have an influence in their survival, development, and evolution. A biophysical environment can vary in scale from microscopic to global in extent. It can also be subdivided according to its attributes. Examples include the marine environment, the atmospheric environment and the terrestrial environment. The number of biophysical environments is countless, given that each living organism has its own environment. The term ''environment'' can refer to a singular global environment in relation to humanity, or a local biophysical environment, e.g. the UK's Environment Agency. Life-environment interaction All life that has survived must have adapted to the conditions of its environment. Temperature, light, humidity, soil nutrients, etc., all influence the species within an environment. However, life in turn modifies, in various forms, its conditions. S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
