DON’T DUMP ON BACCHUS MARSH
Member for Western Victoria, Bev McArthur used Parliament to highlight the potential for the State Government to dump toxic soil in Bacchus Marsh.
Mrs McArthur used a constituency question to ask the Minister for Transport Infrastructure to “explain why the West Gate Tunnel Project went ahead without addressing the recommendation by the EPA which now could have disastrous consequences for the Bacchus Marsh community?”
Mrs McArthur then used an adjournment debate to ask the Minister for Planning to “not make amendments to the Moorabool Planning Scheme under section 20(4) of the Planning and Environment Act 1987 to enable contaminated soil to be dumped at Maddingley Brown Coal.”
Quotes attributable to Bev McArthur MP:
“We should not risk damaging the health, the environment or the agricultural produce of this area because Labor can’t manage a project.”
“This is yet another example of people on one side of the West Gate impeding the lives of those on the other. Bureaucrats from inside the tram tracks expect to be able to handball their problems off to Bacchus Marsh.”
“The State Government should not override legitimate council and community concerns by forcing them to have contaminated soil dumped in their backyard, because they were too irresponsible to listen to the advice of their own environment regulator.”
4 March 2020