It was brief, to the point and supported by Clarence Valley Council’s Climate Change Advisory Committee and Council in the Chamber.
Ordinary Monthly Meeting of Clarence Valley Council held on 23 May 2023, Minutes, p.16:
ITEM 07.23.070 NUCLEAR FREE ZONE
SUMMARY
This report forwards a recommendation of the Clarence Valley Climate Change Advisory Committee
requesting that Council consider declaring the Clarence Valley a nuclear free zone.
OFFICER RECOMMENDATION
That Council support the Climate Change Advisory Committee recommendation and declare the Clarence
Valley local government area as a nuclear free zone.
COUNCIL RESOLUTION - 07.23.070
Pickering/Clancy
That Council support the Climate Change Advisory Committee recommendation and declare the
Clarence Valley local government area as a nuclear free zone.
Voting recorded as follows
For: Clancy, Day, Pickering, Smith, Tiley
Against: Johnstone, Novak, Toms, Whaites
CARRIED
NOTE:
Heartfelt thanks to members of the Climate Change Advisory Committee for mirroring the aesthetic, social, cultural, environmental and economic values of our Valley communities and, for the work put in to achieve this outcome: Cr Greg Clancy (Chair), Judith McNeill, Leonie Blain, Helen Granleese, Stephen Fletcher, Nicholas Reeve, Phillip Hocking, Janet Cavanagh, Geoff Little, Robert Mylchreest, Clair Purvis, Ian Gaillard, Lynette Eggins, Richard Roper (CVC Staff), Ken Wilson (CVC Staff), Scott Lenton (CVC Staff), Ben Ellis (CVC Staff), Suzanne Lynch (CVC Staff), Adam Cameron (Director CVC).
