Regional plan supports coal and denies climate change

The heading you gave my letter "Aim is to leave Woy Woy as quickly as possible" (Peninsula News, November 14, page 19) made me reconsider the future of Woy Woy.

The days of weekenders, boarding houses and ferry services are gone.

The location of the Woy Woy Town Centre was appropriate when transport was a combination of rail and ferry and climate change was a term used by Antarctic explorers.

Times have changed and the future is uncertain.

Approving a high-rise in the Woy Woy Town Centre fails to accept climate change science, education and the subjective opinion of politicians.

Professor Ian Lowes' comment in "A Voice of Reason" warns us that approving high-rise development in the middle of Woy Woy requires a far more rigorous assessment process than previously, with credible scientific comment replacing political spin and ignorance.

It is possible that sea level rises will increase by five metres due to Greenland's ice sliding into the ocean, according to Prof Lowe.

What impact would this have on Woy Woy Town Centre and the Peninsula?

Prof Lowes' credentials and objectivity are more reliable and trustworthy than the governments' and any politician.

Why did sea level rise and climate change fail to be adequately addressed in the Regional Plan 2036?

Is it because the plan supports the ongoing extraction and use of coal to accelerate climate change?

Letter, 21 Nov 2016

Norman Harris, Umina