Antinuclear

Central Coast Council will maintain the Nuclear Free Policy put into place by the former Gosford Council.  Coast Community News, Administrator Dick Persson rejected a Central Coast Council staff report which wanted to revoke the policy, amid applause from the public gallery, at the Council meeting on February 8.

Only about a dozen members of the public attended the meeting but at least two of them carried home-made anti-nuclear signs.

Another two people spoke at the public forum in favour of keeping the policy in place.

The Greens member and former Wyong councillor Sue Wynn spoke as did Australian Conservation Foundation Central Coast president Mark Ellis.

To the surprise of the gallery, when the speakers concluded, Persson said he agreed with everything they had said and the gallery burst into applause.

Persson suggested someone had been working through a list of policies that needed removing and that at the last meeting he had dealt with some.

This week the only policy on the list was the anti-nuclear policy and it stood out “like the proverbial”, he said…….. https://coastcommunitynews.com.au/central-coast/news/2021/02/councils-nuclear-free-policy-lives-on/