COUNCIL nominee Nerilee Boshammer saw the election this month as her chance to get involved with local government and planning decisions due to the threat of fracking.
Ms Boshammer who works in environmental management and community engagement said fracking was popping up everywhere and it was terrifying.
She said fracking posed too much of a risk to the South West’s fresh water supplies.
“We should apply the precautionary principle and just say in the absence of information lets not go there,” she said.
Ms Boshammer said one of her biggest concerns with the City of Busselton was the lack of transparency around the decisions it made.
She said if the council were more transparent about how they reached decisions people would be more accepting of their choices.
“It is the lack of information given to people and for me that’s an issue,” she said.
Ms Boshammer would like the city to achieve sustainable development by modelling for climate change, a drier climate and population growth.
She would like the city to instigate measures that don’t exacerbate climate change through initiatives such as banning plastic bags and using renewable energy.
“You can harvest solar, wind and wave energy with little impact on people’s lives,” she said.
“I would love to see those type of things explored here we have the resources and we have the population in place to drive those type of initiatives.”
When it comes to development Ms Boshammer would like the city to work with developers to retain wildlife corridors and subsidise solar units and grey water reuse systems on new housing.
“In places like Vasse don’t build it around cars, build it around pedestrian access, public transport and wildlife,” she said.
“Give people easy access to services and the beach if we can get to that point that would be pretty amazing.”
