Lake Pedder Action Committee
The Lake Pedder Action Committee , also known as the Lake Pedder Action Group , was a Tasmanian environmental organization that campaigned against the construction of the Lake Pedder Dam by the Tasmanian government in the early 1970s .
The government of Tasmania had the State Hydro-Electric Commission commissioned the Lake Pedder to flood in southwest Tasmania. The dam was built despite the protests. A strong environmentalist movement arose from this protest in Tasmania and the rest of Australia. From this protest movement also emerged the United Tasmania Group , the world's first environmental party as the predecessor organization of today's Tasmanian Greens . Furthermore, the Tasmanian Wilderness Society , which is now active throughout Australia, was founded, which was instrumental in preventing the construction of the Franklin Dam in Tasmania in the early 1980s.
In the early 1990s, an action committee was re-established as the Lake Pedder Restoration Committee (LPRC) . This committee has set itself the goal of restoring Lake Pedder to its original form.
Individual evidence
- ↑ website of Hydro.com , accessed 10 January 2010
- ^ Page of the Lake Pedder Restoration Committee , accessed January 10, 2010
- ↑ History of the dam on lakepedder.org ( Memento of the original from January 12, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed January 10, 2010
