Lake Pedder Action Committee

The Lake Pedder Action Committee (also known as the Lake Pedder Action Group) was a Tasmanian environmental group.

An earlier format was the Save Lake Pedder National Park Committee in 1967.[1][2][3]

In the early 1970s the state government of Tasmania led by Eric Reece and its energy agency the Hydro-Electric Commission planned to dam the upper Gordon River and subsequently flood and enlarge Lake Pedder in South West Tasmania.

The committee was active in publications arguing for the preservation of Lake Pedder [4]

The committee began in 1971 [5]

The origins of the United Tasmania Group were from a LPAC meeting, and from the South West Tasmania Action Committee, also known as the South West Tasmania Action Group.[6]

There were a number of notable Tasmanians who objected to the flooding, including one member Brenda Hean who died mysteriously in 1972 whilst being flown to Canberra in a light plane to stage a protest event.[7][8]

In 1972, the organisation collaborated with mainland state branches to argue against the damming.[9]

In 1972, activists belonging to the organisation conducted vigils at the lake site and other locations in relation to the flooding of the original Lake Pedder [10]

A successor movement, the Tasmanian Wilderness Society was instrumental in the successful challenge to the Franklin Dam proposal in the early 1980s.

Since the early 1990s, the Lake Pedder Restoration Committee (LPRC) [11] has continued to press for the restoration of Lake Pedder to its original form. Many of the senior members of the LPRC had also been active in the Lake Pedder Action Committee.[12]

In the mid 1990s and since, various books and documentaries have revisited the flooding of Lake Pedder, and people involved in the arguments for and against the flooding.[13][14]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Save Lake Pedder National Park Committee (1967), Newsletter, The Committee, retrieved 6 November 2017
  2. ↑ Sims, Peter C. (Peter Charles,) (1995), Lake Pedder : the awakening, Pedder 2000 Committee, ISBN 978-0-646-20321-8
  3. ↑ Save Lake Pedder National Park Committee (1967), Records, retrieved 6 November 2017
  4. ↑ Symposium to Enquire into the Hydro-Electric Commission, Environment, and Government in Tasmania (1971 : Hobart); Jones, Richard (1972), Damania : proceedings of a symposium to enquire into the H.E.C., Environment, and Government in Tasmania, Hobart, November, 1971, Fullers Bookshop (Publishing Division), ISBN 978-0-85853-004-1
  5. ↑ The South West Book page 277 Chronology – same year the Tasmanian Legislative council defeated a vote on a referendum on Lake Pedder by a 14-3 vote...
  6. ↑ Southwell, Les; South West Tasmania Action Committee. Victorian Branch, (issuing body.) (1978), Report on south-west Tasmania wilderness photography study, [Victoria] South-West Tasmania Action Committee, retrieved 6 November 2017
  7. ↑ Millwood, Scott (2008), Whatever happened to Brenda Hean?, Allen & Unwin, ISBN 978-1-74175-611-1
  8. ↑ Millwood, Scott; McMahon, Michael; Robiinson, Mira (2009), Whatever happened to Brenda Hean? (DVD ed.), Screen Australia : Australian Broadcasting Corporation, ISBN 978-0-9806862-4-1
  9. ↑ Johnson, Dick; Australian Union of Students; Lake Pedder Action Committee; Lake Pedder Action Committee. Victorian Branch (1972), Lake Pedder : why a national park must be saved, Lake Pedder Action Committees of Victoria and Tasmania and the Australian Union of Students, ISBN 978-0-9599018-0-1
  10. ↑ "Vigil at Lake Pedder". The Canberra Times. 13 March 1972. p. 3. Retrieved 31 July 2015 – via National Library of Australia.
  11. ↑ http://www.lakepedder.org/
  12. ↑ Sharples, C. E. (Chris E.); University of Tasmania. Centre for Environmental Studies; Symposium on Lake Pedder : Values and Restoration (1995 : University of Tasmania) (2001), Lake Pedder : values and restoration : the proceedings of a symposium held on 8th April 1995 at the University of Tasmania, Hobart (1st ed.), Centre for Environmental Studies, Dept. of Geography and Environmental Studies, University of Tasmania, ISBN 978-0-85901-970-5
  13. ↑ Sims, Peter C. (Peter Charles,) (2012), Lake Pedder : the awakening, Peter C. Sims, ISBN 978-0-646-20321-8
  14. ↑ Grieve, Anna; Best, Steve (1997), Lake Pedder, Film Australia, retrieved 31 July 2015
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