calm ... before the storm?

Yesterday afternoon (prior to attending a public consultation in La Brea hosted by the EMA), two friends and I went to Union Village to have another look at the criminally cleared 1,000 acres of land (once peaceful virgin forest and dams). We chatted with one or two villagers, bought some plants from a young woman whose home overlooks the ravaged expanse and learnt that there was a beach a little further up the road that ran by her house. As we had some time before the meeting, we drove to the end of the road, which took us to a kind of cliff overlooking the peaceful waters featured in the photograph. To our right was a simple, well kept wooden house with curtains blowing in the wind, bareback children running around in their shorts or diapers, playing with a motley band of protective pothounds and little white puppies. I looked at the large window of the house which overlooked the bay and said to my friends: "Imagine waking up to that every morning." One of them made the comment that the people probably take it for granted as they are used to it, but I don't think so ... They must know what they have. The children certainly looked very free and were shining happy. Maybe what they, in their innocence, don't know is what they stand to lose if the smelter is indeed 'a done deal' and their houses (along with all others on that quaint little street to the beach) are cleared away ... perhaps overnight, as the forest was.

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[Vanda]

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[Elspeth]

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