Driver stripped of licenceA BUNBURY driver caught speeding at 135km/hr on the Australind Bypass by a multanova was stripped of his licence for 12 months and fined $1500 in the Bunbury Magistrate’s Court last Friday.
It was the second time Mark Vincent Madaffari had been caught driving above the legal limit.
Madaffari said he had no explanation for driving at such high speed in the 80km/hr zone.
“I don’t know – I wish I used my brain a bit more,” he told Magistrate Kelvin Fisher.
The magistrate said it was unlikely Madaffari would be granted an extraordinary licence for the second time.
Organic waste site named
DARDANUP council has agreed with the Bunbury Harvey Regional Council that its landfill site on Banksia Road is suitable to becoming the region’s organic waste processing facility.
The City of Bunbury and Shire of Capel will introduce a third waste bin dedicated to receiving organic waste from households by July 2012.
If the organics treatment process is a success the shires of Dardanup and Harvey could consider offering a third bin to its ratepayers from July 2013 at the earliest.
Push to protect wildlife from fracking
THE Department of Environment and Conservation is pushing to have 36 hectares of land excluded from a 4500 hectare mineral exploration application by Western Coal.
Mining companies are exploring the possibility of hydraulic fracturing in the South West.
Hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, is the process where a mixture of water and chemicals is injected at an extremely high pressure thousands of metres into the ground through a well.
The department said there were two areas protected by nature agreements to protect flora, fauna and more specifically the western ringtail possum and southern brown bandicoot.
A spokesperson said the department had written to the mining warden requesting the areas be excluded from exploration.
Roads to Recovery funding
A ROAD funding program which has given $1.9 million for the Shire of Dardanup since 2000 should be continued.
Dardanup council will tell the federal government it supports the continuation of the Roads to Recovery Program.
The Australian Local Government Association wants it to be a permanent source of funding and has asked shires across the country to voice their support.
New technology
SEVEN schools across Greater Bunbury will be educating students with new interactive whiteboards thanks to a state government funding boost.
Education minister Dr Elizabeth Constable said yesterday the government would spend $4million over four years to install the whiteboards in classrooms.
Bunbury schools to receive the technology are Australind Primary School, Bunbury Prim-ary School, Carey Park Primary School, Djidi Djidi Aboriginal School and South Bunbury Primary School.
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