No Validation

Over the last few weeks we have read claims that Kwinana Industry was Clean and Green now they've changed to, "Industry works hard to become Green and Clean". It's not in the nature of heavy industry to be clean or green.

Apart from the previous claims, it really irks us that in reports and their web site they continue to insist that noise from industry has reduced. It's obvious the people making this claim don't live in the effected areas. An associate was on the NRG or Noise Reference Group from start to finish, only two people within the NRG to my knowledge lived in effected areas and could speak for those regularly effected.

At the final meeting members were asked to validate the methodology which could not be disputed as all members had not claimed to be experts in this area. But when it came to acknowledging a reduction of noise, in all good conscience it could not be done by community members. Noise is a very complicated subject, one person obviously not living in an effected area accused community members of hearing frogs rather than industry noise.

Monitoring was carried out by what's known as The Barn Owl (no joke), to collect enough data it had to run for 12 hours. Due to weather conditions it ran for approximately 2 hours,which provided no where near enough information. The member from the DEC agreed there was not enough monitoring to validate the modelling report that suggested a noise reduction.

During the course of the NRG some companies had presented, by their own admission said noise at the boundary was well above the noise regulation limits. It baffles us how the claim of noise reduction can be made, when it's completely unfounded as the report was never validated.