Party for the planet
Celebrate our amazing planet at The Flannery Centre 341 Havannah St – 2pm – 5pm Music, Arts and Crafts, Wine Tasting, and Rahamim Pedal Mania Bike Cinema. Bring a picnic, or enjoy the sausage sizzle. FREE ENTRY
World Migratory bird day
Guided field trip via bus, depart from Rahamim at 9.45am & return at 2.30pm – $25 per person – BYO lunch, binoculars, camera. Enclosed shoes required.
World’s Biggest Cup of Tea
Heritage House Tour 10am & morning tea – Sustainability Tour 1pm & afternoon tea – $5 per tour
Flyers Creek Wind Farm Receives Planning Approval
BY: Cameron Love (Excerpt: Cenrec.com.au article “Flyers Creek Wind Farm wins Planning Approval“) Central NSW Renewable Energy Cooperative (CENREC) Monday 17 March welcomed the approval of the Flyers Creek Wind Farm. Chair of CENREC Dr Patrick Bradbery said he was delighted that the Planning Assessment Commission had followed the approval from NSW Planning and Infrastructure…
Important news
BY: Tracey Carpenter Dear BCCAN Members, Welcome to our new members. There’s so much going on – so much to share with you about our group, climate change and the environment in our region. Here are just a few of the latest items. Please check out our wonderful new website for more of the latest activities…
RET Submission DEADLINE
BY: Tracey Carpenter Enjoying the heating your solar panels are providing, wish you could lower your bills with a solar hot water system? Well if you’ve any interest in renewable energy being part of the mix in the future now would be a good time to come to the defense of Australia’s Renewable Energy Target…
Coalpac Application
Content by: Christine Perrers and Tracey Carpenter Who would allow a company in liquidation to re run a dumped application for an open cut coal mine, on public land in the iconic Gardens of Stone, alongside a rural village? Well…. the NSW Government is considering just such an application; and with the enthusiastic backing of…
The Value of Trees
BY: Robert Robergs, PhD and Warwick Artis You may be excused for thinking that Bathurst has plenty of tress. Well, that just isn’t true, and the future looks even more barren than the present. Perhaps you hadn’t heard that the major section of the future upgrade to the Great Western Highway through Kelso is currently…
Great Western Highway Upgrade Through Kelso
Here is the latest draft plan for the upgrade to the Great Western Highway from Boyd Street to Ashworth Drive. In summary, the improvement consists of road-side trees from Littlebourne Street to Ashworth Drive. However, no trees are planned for the section from Boyd Street to Littlebourne Street. At first you might think that no…
Bathurst Farmer’s Market
The markets are held on the fourth Saturday of each month from January to November and on the third Saturday of December. Gates are open to the public from 8 am to 12 noon. The markets are situated at the historic Bathurst Showground and surrounds (for directions see the map in our Contact Page). What?…