Emotional & social impact of the proposed Tillegra Dam
May 12th, 2008 |
The following is a moving heartfelt talk given by Nikki Coleman at the Wise Ways to Water Weekend at Wangat Lodge on Saturday 12 April 2008…
Ken Rubeli asked me to talk today about some of the emotional and social effects this dam(n) proposal has had on me as a landholder in the proposed inundated area.
I began by asking myself this question:
‘Why is having to sell one’s land so devastating?
Don’t people move many times in their lives, buying and selling, uprooting and resettling?’
The thing I keep coming back to is ‘Connection to place’.
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