Staging Car Races in Nine State Forests of NSW

200 kilometres of NSW forest roads will be used for a three-day car race on 11-14 September. The public is being denied access to various state owned forests.

Nine State Forests are effectively privatised:
Bagawa,
Lower Bucca,
Nana Creek,
Newry,
Orara East,
Pine Creek,
Tarkeeth,
Tuckers Nob and
Wedding Bells State Forests.

The racing cars will shoot at high speed through 'dirt roadways'. The "roads are lined by trees close to the edge in many places... they will travel through dense rainforest." These forests are the habitat for a rich biodiversity. Flora, fauna and fungi mingle in this refuge. To stage a high speed fossil fuel orgy amongst this diverse habitat and 'boost' greenhouse gases will leave all living beings with an inhospitable home. Australia is well known for working hard on making its unique species rapidly extinct.

The roaring noise pollution can be heard over kilometres, the dust generation is a hazard. Housing adjoining the State Forest are already challenged by ongoing logging pollution and breaking mining trucks. As well as the acoustic pollution on the land, the air space is filled with hovering air craft noise. The house-shaking sounds of the helicopter/s ( in the age of uavs ) over 'lifestyle' properties make any creature want to flee the area. To add such a combustion event probably will flood the market with 4sale signs and dissuade visitors that might 'boost the local economy' in the long run in a sustainable way.

Youth on (unregistered) trailbikes and bombs already doing wheelies in forests and residential areas take it as a go ahead. Such mass spectacles demonstrates to them, that it is ok to speed.

The price is too high to be 'put on the map' in such a way.


See also
Celebrating Fossil Fuel Culture on Forest Roads, 2013
Noise Pollution and Vibration in the Bellingen Shire, 2015


Images
Australian fauna, Brockhaus encyclopedia
Large frogmouth, (Batrachostomus auritus), Brehm's Life of Animals