Koch certainly looks the part of the environmental radi­cal, with a great full beard and long hair, but I enjoyed his company. “Quite a few of the business people associated with the Peninsula Trust supported the smelter, but some of us thought that a huge industrial complex directly across from the Heads couldn’t be good for the peninsula,” he explained. “Then it was suggested that the smelter be sited at Okia. Farmers and local Greens opposed it and merged to form STOP. We stayed around in case the smelter returned, but all that surfaced was a Consolidated Gold proposal in the mid-1980s to crush Harbour Cone and fill in Hoopers Inlet with the spoil!”