Just one week after the A Call To Action for the WUWT Community the latest tally is:
$ 30,017 USD
On behalf of the Thompsons, thank you WUWT readers for your generous help. I know that many of you have been extremely generous, even when your own situation isn’t the best.
The positive attitude displayed has been very gratifying. In contrast, not a peep from any of the alarmist blogs, except for the usual sneering. There’s no help from the usual suspects and their flocks that I’m aware of. If I’m wrong, point it out.
Jo Nova put together a page and she will keep updating it with all the supporting links that come in. It is to be a central place for finding the basic information that matters.
http://joannenova.com.au/about/the-thompsons/
Her latest post on them was about the community support. With a map of the surrounds and the details that their supporters live closer to them than the people who complain.
http://joannenova.com.au/2010/09/thompsons-part-5-community-support/
The next critical deadline is Wednesday in AU (Tuesday night USA time.)
That’s when the bankers meet the pollies and we hope and pray we can get some delay in eviction (now deadlined as Oct 15th).
If you’d like to donate to help keep a roof over the children, here’s the link:
http://joannenova.com.au/about/the-thompsons/donations-for-the-thompson-children/
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An Email to the Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia would be my choice Dale Stiller with a cc to the Queen of Australia.
JoNova got it right, they are usurpers of her power in this case.
please see
Minister of the Environment and Queen of WA?
http://joannenova.com.au/2010/09/minister-of-the-environment-and-queen-of-wa/
I didn’t fully catch Joeanne’s headline until now.
Is Lord Monckton aware of the situation? Anthony, any chance you have his E-mail address?
Sincerely,
John from CA
! UPDATE ! : DEC decisions were based on only 21 complaints — they ignored community support.
from JoNova
Thompsons Part 7: Welcome to Investment Hell
http://joannenova.com.au/2010/09/my-letters-and-emails/
Support:
• 900 people signed a petition in their support (that was back in 2007 when they were running with 10,000 cattle).
• People give Matt $50 notes in the street and tell him to keep fighting.
• The local shire has written in support urging the DEC to allow them to run the full 14,490 capacity they have works approval for.
• Barry Carbon who wrote the 1986 EPA legislation chaired a local committee and also supports them and agrees they should have permission to run.
• Their two closest neighbours want them to stay and increase their cattle holdings up to the original design.
• 6000 recordings of smells taken in the town show the odours are not unusual or a problem. Most days no one in town can smell anything.
• We have raised $30,000 around the world in a week to support their children. Many people in the US are appalled at what’s happened to them. They are asking why Australians would do this.
This family is being destroyed by a few complainants (with a lot of help from the DEC), all of the complainants moved to a rural area, near to a piggery, but now complain that they don’t like the smell. Some of those who complain even moved in after the Thompson’s Beef feedlot was set up. Some of those who complain have also applied to rezone their land so they can subdivide.
If you’d like to help the Thompson’s, please go to this link to read over sample letters you can send in support.
http://joannenova.com.au/2010/09/my-letters-and-emails/
! UPDATE ! : Trolls attempt to Pillage Thompson feedlot before eviction
from JoNova
http://joannenova.com.au/2010/09/my-letters-and-emails/
Matt Thompson says,
“Yesterday I locked the farm gates just in time. The administrators came calling again to start removing items. We had a Mexican standoff for 2 long hours — I with camera in hand, they in their car. We can’t leave the property.”