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Once more glen eira clowncil runs true to form with its so-called ‘environmental policy’ - See agenda items for July 1st meeting. I won’t bother going through this point by point, but will just make some general observations.

1. Words such as ‘investigate’, ‘encourage’ etc. dominate this poor excuse for policy. Target figures are practically non-existent - ie. it is simply not good enough to say ‘reduce’ carbon emissions. Why can Port Phillip and numerous other councils put a definite target figure on such strategies and this clowncil refuses to?

2. Once again we have the same old catchcry - ‘a low cost council’. Wonderful stuff, but is this what the community wants? Survey after survey has shown that the environment is a major consideration for people - they want action now, not to be told that this clowncil will do what it considers to be economically feasible, especially when they decide to spend up to $45 million on sporting grounds and to hell with the environment. People are getting sick and tired of having their priorities ignored.

3. The so-called policy is again not a policy but an exercise in obfuscation and self aggrandisement with ‘facts’ that are highly questionable - but more about this in the next post.