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Overview and timeline of LDC project
ELCOME to the first
edition of The DIRT.
It’s a place where the
Landholders Driving
LDC to fund washdown
Change project
facility for community
participants, observers
Overview and tim
and proponents can share
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information... share the
“dirt” on the latest news
and developments.
The DIRT is where good
ideas can take root and
flourish.
It’s a quarterly e-zine, or
electronic magazine, but
it can easily be printed
out on a standard A4
printer and enjoyed like
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audio effects - some
of them to illustrate
a point, some
present purely to
raise a smile.
As the
publication
matures, and
more editions
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are published,
readers will be able to
Get involved by sending
easily refer to previous publications.
stories
- even snippets can
Each edition will be packed with lots of
be
used
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photographs,
letters or notices o
information, hopefully, a story or picture that
upcoming
events
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or
feedback
(bouquets
might bring a smile to your face, and, most
AND
brickbats
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valid,
and
helpful,
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importantly, lots of news about the latest
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developments in the LDC project.
THE
Landscape remediation
Gully erosion causes about 65 per cent of
the fine sediment load that comes from the
BBB.
The Landscape remediation program aims
to develop fast, effective and economical
approaches to gully remediation.
Demonstration sites will be established
to showcase different methods of treating
large-scale features, as well as smaller scale
features.
Influencing other land managers
A key aim is to develop a successful model
for effectively engaging with non-agricultural
land managers that could be used in other
catchments.
Although 92 per cent of the land in the
BBB is used for grazing, other areas include
National Parks, State forests and coal mines.
Four local councils operate in the
catchment which also features major
infrastructure such as power transmission
lines, local and main roads, and rail lines.
Exploring new incentives
LDC will work closely with landholders
to investigate incentives to reward good
practice.
Incentives could include market-based
approaches such as grants, concessional
loans, insurance mechanisms, stewardship
payments, or rate rebates.
Policy engagement
This program aims to support BBB
landholders to cut through regulatory red
tape that may be preventing them from
adopting practice changes. Aligned with
the Exploring New Incentives program, it will
work with landholders to identify the most
relevant
regulation
policy The LDC team and the Whitsunday
he LDC and
has feasible
committed
to fund and
a small
and National
overnments - State
issues
to pursue.
vehicle
community washdown facility
Regional Council - (WRC)
are Community
discussing Relations Manager
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Long Term
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Coal
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in the
It will also support
graziers
to comment the detail Above
in Collinsville
worth about
$9000.
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proposal
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with and
NQ Dry
Tropics CEO Scott Crawford
LDC e Project
Manager
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on regulations
during
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commitment
was a public
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of the
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Andrew Yates 2050
(right)
reduc
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opportunities
and Dry
will coordinate
By 2025, they aim
LDC
and Burdekin
Tropics Regional
washdown facility in the BBB region,
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by
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Scoping
workshop
held
in
Collinsville
as
part
of
the
LDC
project
design
engagement
between
government
and
Pest
Management
Group’s
Pest Advisory
and in the interests of working with the
and nitrogen reach
for
Minister
bringing,
graziers,
scientists and technical Augu
experts
All ideas
raised
Queensland
st, together.
landholders
policy and
issues. whole phase,
community
to achieve
long-term
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held in on
Collinsville
in regulatory
March where
In and analysed
were discussed, documented
and Minister fo
graziers raised concerns about biosecurity economic, social and environmental
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as a much-needed and long-overdue
accessing grazing land.
Dry Tropics Major Integr
locally to Lan
facility.
They said laws for government
It has been renamed
It will allow council start planning
agencies and utility companies accessing
Change (LDC).
aims to imp
t
properties needed to be strengthened to immediately for a second washdown
projec
year
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