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Key Recommendation made in 2003...
"In view of the outstanding importance of Koonalda Cave, it’s proper protection must be a paramount aim in all management planning and future actions. In consideration of this, there exist two key conservation and management issues that need to be urgently addressed:(1) Control of unauthorized entry into the cave;(2) Conservation of archaeological and cultural heritage values."
Eberhard, S.M. & McBeath, R.M. (2003) Murrawijinie & Koonalda Caves, Nullarbor National Park: Review of Natural & Cultural Resources, & Strategies for Visitor Management. Report prepared for Parks and Wildlife Service (Far West Region), Department of Environment and Heritage, South Australia
"The Nullarbor caves contain a diverse invertebrate fauna that includes several remarkable obligate subterranean species (troglobites and stygobites). However, knowledge of the Nullarbor cave fauna is very incomplete; many caves have not been systematically sampled for fauna, and those caves from which collections have been made have generally only been sampled on a few occasions. The caves and dolines are also important for vertebrates, and they are a critical habitat for some species of birds and bats which roost and breed inside them. Some elements of the cave fauna and fauna habitats are fragile and vulnerable to human disturbance."
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The reliance on subsidies, even for the simplest use case of on-site chemical production, suggests that more complex applications are even less viable. The Orica project exposes a push to prop up a technology whose costs are driven by immutable physical constraints, raising serious questions about the feasibility of Australia’s green hydrogen strategy.
It is essential that Australia removes unrealistic assumptions about green hydrogen from official plans, including the Integrated System Plan, to prevent us committing today to investments and strategies which have no real prospect of success.
Hydrogen has been ‘the future’ at least four times. The simplest of elements, it appears to have an intoxicating allure to the modern mind, capable of generating sequential waves of official enthusiasm about its potential, without any of the expectations coming to fruition.”