Tag: Daintree

This article investigates the costings and issues associated with the four bridge options presented in Douglas Shire Council’s Daintree River Crossing – Options Assessment Report released in August 2020. (see References below). According to estimates, the lowest cost bridge option would be around $53 million with the other options being considerably more. The two ferry option will only cost $2.8 million and this will be rapidly recovered through ferry charges.

At the Douglas Shire Council Meeting held Tuesday 25 August, 2020, Council made its first tentative steps in the debate with a decision to release a consultation paper on the crossing of the Daintree River.

MEDIA RELEASE BY DOUGLAS SHIRE COUNCIL Replacing the ferry service with a bridge over the Daintree River has been debated passionately in the community for…

Douglas Shire Council holds secret meeting to decide upon public consultation. Before Douglas Shire Council at tomorrow’s Ordinary Meeting is a recommendation for another round of public consultation concerning whether a bridge should replace the Daintree River ferry.

🍃 Original concept gets legs again thanks to land trust purchase
🍃 Tourism industry, Traditional Owners and conservation sector to support
🍃 Douglas Shire Council yet to decide about becoming carbon neutral

The Daintree Coast contains some iconic and familiar landscapes, from the wet tropical rainforests to the Great Barrier Reef, and the complicated labyrinth of mangrove systems in between. What most people don’t know is that these various systems are intricately interdependent. In reality they are not separate systems at all, but three parts of a fantastically complex whole.

⟼ CEO recommends Council sell Lot 83
⟼ Lot 83 was purchased by the previous Council for carbon offsets, rainforest restoration and related uses
⟼Buyer is Queensland Trust For Nature and Rainforest Rescue

The Daintree Coast is struggling with what is there today. We constantly hear calls from a small cohort of those residents to provide services that were always going to be beyond the scope of the nation’s taxpayers or local ratepayers. Services that are not in keeping with the very place in which they had chosen to live.

Power scheme proposes to clear World Heritage Daintree Rainforest

What is the future of the micro-grid project?
Approximately 60 residents attended a presentation in Diwan on Sunday by Daintree Renewable Energy Inc.’s Russell O’Doherty and Volt Advisory Group Project Manager Richard Schoenemann, as the Daintree Micro-grid project pushes further toward shovel ready.