Angourie surfers triumph, at least for the moment, over ass-invading developer…
Those two Angourie surfers who threw their life-savings at a court battle with a Chinese developer in Fiji (read here and here) appear to have won, at least for the moment.
After international media attention, and the arrest of three journalists who tried to interview the developer, the Hight Court in Suva issued a stop-work injunction and ordered the company, called, appropriately, Freesoul, to clean its mess up.
Fiji’s environment department has also revoked Freesoul’s environment permit.
The country’s prime minister, the former naval officer and strongman Frank Bainimarama said, “The conduct of Freesoul Real Estate Development has been deeply concerning to me personally for some time. As both a Fijian who treasures our environment and a global advocate for sustainable development, I share in the public’s outrage.”
Woody Jack, who along with his buddy Nav Fox and Fijian local Ratu Jona Joseva bought a 99-year-lease on land on Mololo Island, told The Sydney Morning Herald, “This legal challenge was never about us; you have to do the right thing in regards to the environment no matter where you are.”
Meanwhile, China’s ambassador to Fiji, Qian Bo, has distanced the country and the glorious Communist Party from Freesoul’s brutish behaviour, which included a four-finger incursion into Nav’s ancient ass.
“This has nothing to do with the Chinese embassy or China,” he told Mai TV.
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Fuck. Yeah.
A small ray of light, still enough to dispell darkness.
Enjoy your Island mates!
The funniest thing is that once this whole thing blows over, those surfers are gonna rip off their rubber faces and say SUPLIZE! They’re actually another pair of rival Chinese developers.
Well, I’ll tell ya this for nothing. Horsepower kills fish.
Oh, and another thing. Hitting fish stocks when on the spawn wipes them out real fucken quick. It’s easy these days.
The bridge of most deep sea trawlers/seiners looks like the SS Enterprise. The fish haven’t got a chance. Side/forward scan sonar ended that. The software these days can differentiate between species of fish, so you know which school you’re targeting and how big it is. What the average size of the fish in the school are. What depth, speed and direction they are swimming at. What speed to tow at to intercept the school at point x. How much fish you’ve got in the bag. Every fucken thing.
Sustainable ? If abused ? No.
Take the above data and match it with 3D bottom profiling for the seamounts with an overlay of the fish schools and your vessel and net you have a perfect visualisation.
A true coupling of IT with engineering and historical data. Insanely impressive and efficient on one hand but if abused ….
Patagonia contracts are in the mail!
30% off worn wear, and free stickers
why wasn’t the developer arrested for “criminal trespass” like the journo’s?
Slinky Fox getting milked hahahahahaa oh fuck!
Normally hes doing the milking no doubt! What a legend!
An aussie claiming ‘his’ land. Best aboriginal joke yet. FU back to england, where your genocidal pedophile rapist ancestors came from if you want ‘your’ land.
Gotta protect his pheasants from the peasants is all.
Spy optics for you
im slightly more concerned about the great barrier reef and Queensland’s never ending support of environmental corruption , wonder how many know about the gold coast beaches that were dug up and sent to Hawaii after WW2 corruption goes back a long way in this country , what about that wave pool how is being constructed how is being powered, so try not to be to smarty pants about the Chinese they have been welcome in this country almost since white settlement not to mention valued suppliers of key surf products and clothing for decades
Also huge fans of mining and minerals, I’m told.
“This legal challenge was never about us; you have to do the right thing in regards to the environment no matter where you are.” …apart from Nav’s initial reaction was to sell their land and let them get on with it?!
Hahaha truth.
Easy, brother, don’t go questioning the Aussie hero myth this close to Anzac Day.
Two Whites make a Wong
Cease and Desist in pursuit
Of their Crapiness
These guys have got Freesoul by the nuts now.
Gee, I hope they wouldn’t think to take advantage of the situation …. coz I fucken well would after all that shit.
Squeeze em boys, hard ! For you and the locals.
A little on-going “access money” to the land locked title, perhaps …. a Casino and Fiji’s largest development shouldn’t have a problem with that.
Great news for these guys.
Sad thing is that the China machine cannot be stopped.
I probably don’t have to explain this here, but China has gone around the world giving cheap loans to poor countries that will never be able to pay them back. Then they just take over and build what they want.
You mean cheap gifts to rich officials
Actual loans to poor nations. When they can’t can’t pay them back, they take what they want. They also borrow billions of low cost loans from the World Bank
Sri Lanka just gave China a port in exchange for debt relief.
Once they’ve got them in a default on loan position then a big concession is access to a nations EEZ for comm fishing. 200 Nm.
PNG, Tonga, Samoa and all the littlies and bingo – there’s the Sth Pacific tuna breeding grounds in your control and all linked together. A token processing plant built on each to employ a few locals. While the bulk is off loaded at sea to a mother ship … unrecorded.
Send in the Super Seiners and the Longline fleet ! Fucken sad and truly shameful.
Don’t even get me started on that proud Pacific fishing nation Spain. Now that is daylight robbery on a massive scale.
The Spanish are robbing the Pacific?
Have been for a while, matey. Since the 70s but mainly Eastern Pacific.
Now out west in fucken huge seiners.
Here’s a vid shot by Greenpeace, never mind the rhetoric – but it’ll give you an idea of what these things can do.
As an ex-comm part of me is in awe but a larger part of me says that it’s totally fucken wrong.
https://m.youtube.com/watch…
Wow, that is heartbreaking; so greedy. Just taking everything. Humans are fucking monsters.
Hah, check this one.
The Spanish with the backing of the EU tried to do a deal with the Cook Islands.
Wanted to fish in CI EEZ for 8 years for a total of tadah 13 million US.
That was cut back because of public outcry and they have been given 4 years (3 Spanish, 1 French seiners) for about 7.5 million US. Started in 2017 IIRC. That is fucken highway robbery. Jeez.
Yeah, just watched a video where the smaller boats load onto the Chinese mother ship and the men don’t get to touch land for at least 8 months.
Arse Derek, it’s arse.
Maybe it’s a Grnder thing ?
I can imagine he’d say ass with just a hint of a lisp and a devilish twinkle in his eye.
Oh yes ! That mature, experienced, fallen Choir Boy act …. man, woman or beast. Nothing is safe.
Anything from eight to eight that walks, crawls or slithers, as the saying goes.
oh..i was thinking poor donkey.
Nice to hear of a country that actually enforces it’s own rules. Sunshine Coast Council spent 3-4 years getting all sorts off feedback and working out a town plan for future development. Within 3 months of it being ‘set in stone’ they had an application to build 7 high rise towers, where they had specified a maximum of 4 levels. Guess what the council did? Yep, gave initial approval. It’s currently an on-going situation but the council is thankfully leaning back to following it’s own rules.
errgh town planning chat..nothing worse.
It was classic though. 3-4 years of opportunity for all stakeholders to knock together a plan, put it out with great fanfare, and 3 months later chuck it out the window.
I can’t see what those pesky Yaroomba locals are complaining about Sekisui’s proposed development … unless you’re a fan of a natural beautiful environment?
SCC are straight up cash whores mind you
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Thats pretty much the view from our street. Wong way Sekesui…Motherfuckers.
True ? Is that for real ?
That’s what they’re proposing ?
Ya gotta be kidding ….
That’s what everyone North of the Maroochy River has been saying for years. Oh, and then the SCC builds a new airport (an unneeded one at that), and proposes diverting the aircraft over the Noosa area. God, I’m happy we voted to de amalgamate our council from those fuckwits