[Local resident ERC Member]
B** asked about grey
plumes from the mines and Tom deVries [AGD General Manager] stated that they were
probably the result of blasting. B** asked if they could have
caused the apparently anomalous dust deposition results and
Colin Burns stated that this could not be the case because the
grey plume would not contain particles that would report to a
dust deposition gauge.
Grey plumes of what can only be called particulate pollution are casually admitted by the AGD General Manager at an Environmental Review Committee Meeting, and their properties, confidently described by his off-sider, include not being capable of detection by the extant monitoring system (Australian Standard wine flagons).
Was anyone listening?
In Attendance:
Greg Speirs (Chairman) City of Greater Bendigo
Len Thomas Minerals and Petroleum
Naren Narenthiran EPA
Apologies:
Colin Thornton Minerals and Petroleum
Bob Disken Minerals and Petroleum
Erin Simpson Goulburn Murray Water
Dennis Gilmore Forests Victoria
More regulators were apologising (as they bloody well should!) than were attending... still, each and every one of them received a copy of the ERC Minutes... How could these people not have known?
And yet no one said a word...
But that's seven years ago, and so, surely, none of these people could still be making regulatory decisions regarding this mine, could they?
It would only be fair to assume that if such people were, then such people would have cleared up all of the previously unanswered questions by now, would it not?
Yet even if this were the case, no one could reasonably expect the people of Costerfield to deal with such people, such incompetent and inept people, any longer, could they?
After all, such people had already been told about it all - by the General Manager of AGD, the mining company, himself! - seven years previously.
Hadn't such people?
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