Important Events
7:30pm Wednesday, March 3rd
Council Chambers at City of Wanneroo Council offices,
Dundebar Road
10 am Saturday 6th of March 2010
Gathering/starting point:-
Bert Togno Park (corner of Dundebar Road and Civic Drive)
Submissions
As well as attending these important events submissions are needed. We have created some online forms to help you with your submissions.
Click here to visit the website and make your submission.
Video 1 - Footage of the Binary Industries chemical plant fire, Channel 10 News August 2005, Narangba Queensland.
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Video 2 - Binary Fire Report released ABC News June 2006
Residents say not only did their health suffer but the value of their homes will drop significantly...
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Video 3 - Footage of EPA report, Channel 10 News August 2006 on the Binary Industries chemical plant fire, Narangba Queensland.
EPA (Queensland’s environmental protection authority) tests reveal a terrifying levels of chemicals including agent orange just months after they were told there was no health risk……Locals were first told the levels were small or non existent…..Other chemicals thought to cause neurological damage in children 400,000 times the acceptable level……
“My view is that the Department of Environment is without question the worst department that has existed anywhere ever”.
“Ultimately one of the options available to us is to take out a writ in the Supreme Court to ensure that the Department of Environment does its job”.
John Kelly – Mayor of Wanneroo
Talking on the ABC Stateline program about the dumping of acid sulphate soils in Wanneroo 05/10/2007. Read more
“Ultimately one of the options available to us is to take out a writ in the Supreme Court to ensure that the Department of Environment does its job”.
John Kelly – Mayor of Wanneroo
Talking on the ABC Stateline program about the dumping of acid sulphate soils in Wanneroo 05/10/2007. Read more
New plans for East Wanneroo
Endanger Gnangara water mound
In November 2009 the W.A. Department of Planning released the Industrial Land Strategy for Perth and Peel. The wider community seems to have received very little, to no notification of these plans even though the changes will have a huge impact on the East Wanneroo, Wanneroo and Joondalup communities.C.R.E.W. has created a website to inform the residents and interested parties of these proposed changes. Click here to visit the website.
Industrial Land Strategy 2009
Key Issues
PERTH\'S WATER
Just like the oil rig fire in the East Timor Sea, mistakes or accidents do happen. There is only one Gnangara mound. Beside being a particularly pure source of drinking water, the Gnangara mound supplies Perth with 60% of its water...
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WHAT TYPE OF INDUSTRY?
The government now claims they never intended to put "Special Industry" on the Gnangara Mound. They claim that what they wrote in their Industrial Land Strategy document was a mistake...
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EMPLOYMENT
The government claims it needs the South Pinjar industrial estate because of Wanneroo\'s expanding population but their calculations just don\'t add up...
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SOCIAL IMPACT
Having an overly disproportionate amount of industry in Wanneroo for its population, will only lower the quality of life for the residents. Instead of enhancing it by offering a balanced ratio of industrial employment and population...
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Bellevue industrial Fire February 2001 (in Perth near Midland)
“The investigation programme has shown soil and groundwater contamination is present beneath the Waste Control Site. However, groundwater contamination is likely to also be migrating off-site across three of the four site boundaries in two different aquifer systems. In addition, it is possible that groundwater contamination extends below the depth of investigation conducted to date in the regional water table aquifer.”
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Submissions
As well as attending these important events submissions are needed. We have created some online forms to help you with your submissions. Click here to visit the website and make your submission.
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