Accusations of unlawful processes, claims green groups were being held to ransom and a councillor voting against a motion she seconded dominated a heated debate as Gympie Region councillors tried to unravel the mess around their environmental funding grants yesterday. Only one of nine applications for funding drawn from the council s Environmental Levy was deemed valid by staff, and only 40 per cent of the $196,000 up for grabs was recommended to be awarded across four projects proposed by the Koala Action Group, Cooloola Coastcare, Mary River Catchment Co-ordinating Committee, and Gympie and District Landcare. The groups had already waited months for the grants to be awarded, a delay they criticised and called unprecedented .
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