Comment: The changing face of the Pilbara
Submitted: Saturday, Feb 18, 2012 at 08:51
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Member - John and Val
Hi Joe,
Shipping containers for accommodation - not confined to mining areas. New student accom here in
Canberra uses that method. And there are huge swathes of paddocks here stripped bare in preparation for the steady spread of ugly suburbs, something just as insidious and relentless as mining.
Have enjoyed the beauty of the
Pilbara as tourists and hope to be back for another look. The industrial development even has its own fascination and like most of those with super we have derived benefit from mining with all its consequences. Its a tricky question and we are all responsible...not many answers though.
But it is hard seeing
places we love torn up and changed.
Cheers,
Val
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Reply By: Deleted User - Wednesday, Mar 04, 2015 at 01:11
Wednesday, Mar 04, 2015 at 01:11
G'day ~ Val and John
Thank you for your words, I would be livered as a rate payer to have to look at a "Shipping Container" accommodation complex, no matter how needed it might be because of accommodation shortages.
Like both the (once) caravan parks in
Newman, these box like units have been allowed because of the mining industries insatiable greed for accommodation for future expansions and the hassles with land titles etc, the losers are the travelling public ~ caravanners have been squeezed out and the Fly in ~ Fly out workers squeezed in.
The ever expanding town of
Newman has seen dozens of normal suburban style houses flattened and row upon row of same~same houses, built in
Perth and trucked into
Newman, then set up so close to each other you would hear the neighbour snoring if he was able to get some sleep. Talk about Ugly suburbs, but I guess it will make a good detention centre for the "new arrivals" ~ heaven forbid its all to harsh for them on Christmas Island.
Yes, we are all responsible to a degree for allowing such monumental but irreversible change to come about in our life time ~ that is why I have grave concern and possibly a fist full of guilt about what the future may hold, for those who are yet to see this part of our country ~ the
Pilbara.
Safe travels:
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