Carlton
River Catchment & Southern Beaches Conservation Society
Dump the Toxic Dump
P.O.
Box 92, Dodges Ferry, TASMANIA, 7177
MEDIA
RELEASE
For
Immediate Release. Wednesday 3rd
October, 2012
Communities
Dissatisfied with Submission Process
Community
members from Carlton River, Dodges Ferry & Copping are entirely
unsatisfied with Southern Waste Solutions’ response to their C-Cell
submissions. In many cases, specific concerns have not been been
addressed at all or have been answered too generically.
“Throughout
this process we have been asking SWS to provide the scientific data
to back up their clean, green and durable claims for the C-Cell. They
won’t and it leaves us wondering why” said Claire Burnet from
the Carlton River Catchment & Southern Beaches Conservation
Society.
“They
haven’t even commissioned an Aquatic survey of the Carlton River,
which sits 800 metres from the site. The world’s only last breeding
colony of the critically endangered Red Handfish is within the
watershed of this river. It is inconceivable that their survival is
not being considered.”
“It
will be entirely remiss if this project is allowed to proceed without
first being under the auspices of a state-wide government policy and
strategy for waste management.”
“The
2008 Tasmanian government commissioned “Sustainable
Infrastructure Australia Report” identifies landfill as being
the last option - not the first.”
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MEDIA RELEASE ENDS—
For
further information, please contact Dump the Toxic Dump:
dumpthetoxicdump@gmail.com
