THIS IS WHAT WE ARE UP AGAINST ECO ACTIVISTS RECEIVE MILLIONS FROM TAX PAYERS THROUGH GOVERNMENT FUNDING.
We have extracted the following information by referring to Daily Telegraph, 6 December 2016, Article titled, “ENVIRO-MENTAL: STATE FUNDS FOR GREEN MOANERS”.
- Birdlife Australia: received two grants from the environmental trust, one for $132,000 and another for $963,276.
- National Parks Association of NSW: Received at least $127,000 from the state government through the environment fund.
- Environmental Defenders Office: Got $80,000 from the environmental trust and another $966,000 from the Justice Department.
- Total Environment Centre: Was given $80,000 by the environmental trust.
- WIRES: $80,000.
- Nature Conservation Council: $141,000.
A Nature Conservation Spokeswoman was quoted as saying, “NCC activities supported by the grant focus on engaging our member groups and the community to engage in environmental policy issues. They include developing submissions and submission guides, providing trainings and workshops for community members and developing briefing notes for decision makers. The $141,000 over two years contributes to our core costs of operation including staff.”
A spokeswoman from the Office of Environment and Heritage, which funds the environment trust, said organisations may be breaching their grant conditions if funds are used for political protests.
Animal rescue service WIRES, spokeswoman said community groups would be “justified” to do so.
It is clear that there is no action taken against using the grants to fund protests, evidenced by how often we see these groups protesting. The Telegraph editorial says, “The whole arrangement is a little like paying a mechanic to wreck your car instead of repairing it. Except on a much larger scale.
In summary the government funds green groups who often finance their protests against the government policies with the government funding.
On the other hand well established organisations like Access for All (AFA) whose policies are about caring for our heritage and environment but not with a recognised ‘green’ agenda are on our own to rely on self-funding and an enormous effort as volunteers.
Photo shows our Chairman, Garry, assisting the National Parks as an official volunteer, clearing one of our heritage bridle tracks.
While Garry is volunteering, hard at work in the bush, in an office in Sydney a paid employee of a recognised “green” group is writing a submission with a government grant protesting about horse riders having access to historic bridle tracks- tracks that are part of our bush heritage and existed long before National Parks were thought of- tracks that have been shown by National Parks’ monitoring not to be causing any environmental damage.
Our argument is not really with the National Parks, it’s with successive governments whose policies reflect a one-sided view.