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It's the belief of professionals that transporting any lead carbonate through a population-dense area it's still high risk. Lead as we know is a dangerous substance that causes long term damage to children also pregnant women.
.Magellan have not cleaned up their mess in the Port of Esperance, so why are they so anxious to pollute another area? In January there were 2 incidents, or rail accidents where large quantities of minerals were spilled into the environment. (What if it had been lead) Has any consideration been given to the effects on community or workers, if an accident were to happen in Fremantle, or do we wait for more birds to die before it's realised that a problem exists. Like shutting the gate after the horse has bolted.
.Why has the minister not yet set a limit on the amount of dust Magellan can emit in transit from Wiluna mine, despite the project gaining state government approval. Magellan will transport 150,000 tonnes of lead carbonate concentrate annually to Fremantle in double-laminated bags inside shipping containers. Even after the minister imposed 15 "stringent ministerial conditions" it was later revealed that Magellan had yet to complete all baseline sampling along the 800 km route, and was yet to come to an agreement with DEC on lead level standards.
.There will be 14 air monitors in total for the entire route, the company would not say how often monitoring would happen except it would be regular, with results made public. So who's reading the monitors and calling the shots? We believe the monitoring needs to be in "real time" so authorities can act quickly, if and when levels are breached. It's not hard to see that neither Barnett or Grylls live in areas to be effected.
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What industry wants industry gets.
Same old deal. Fobbing off the public. Magellan should, by the laws of this state and environmental decency, clean up their Esperance mess before they have permission to do other business in this state.
Allowing Magellan willy-nilly to blithely continue, and worst of all truck their lead shipments through built up areas including the town of Fremantle is criminally insane. If the people of Fremantle dont stand up en masse and have tghis stopped they deserve all they will cop in the future. Rallys, demonstrations, petitions...the full Monty should be employed here and Magellan forced to ship their product from further north - building their own transport routes and wharves if necessary.
Peopkle should not be made susciptible to more of this company's dangerous practices
I can see "Her" is quite angry when printing her comments. What is needed is more people caring and angry, to make this "Claytons" government take notice.
Steve, it's about time industry stopped getting their own way & the safety of communities was placed first.
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