Isn't it ironic that in last Friday's edition of the Bega District News, with its comprehensive front-page coverage of the pending Wanatta Lane environmental disaster, that acknowledged 'Greens' councillor, Keith Hughes, is concerned more about money than the environment!

Keith is pictured with a bogus Bega Valley Shire 'overdue' notice that he feels should be handed to Forests NSW for millions of dollars in unpaid rates.

As one of a large and growing number of concerned ratepayers I feel that Keith should be more worried about the 'permanent' damage a leachate overflow will cause to the Bega River catchment system, than the money the shire has not received in the harvesting of a 'renewable' resource.

I don't know of anyone, to date, who has ever been able to 'regrow' polluted water!

I also feel that, as an elected decision-maker for the Bega Valley, Keith could well serve himself with an 'overdue' notice for never answering a single question that we have put to him.

For the last six and a half years concerned Wolumla residents have sought information, opinion and feedback from all our councillors - but to no avail!

Perhaps Keith and his colleagues should realise that they promoted themselves and put their hands up to be councillors, and were only elected because we thought they would be good representatives.

Surely, as a Green, Mr Hughes must have an opinion on the affect the proposed Wanatta Lane Waste Facility will have on the environment, one way or the other.

Maybe he thinks it's a real good location and just won't admit it.

Come on Keith, your ideas and answers are well 'overdue'!