Media Statement
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18 January 2018
The NSW Government’s planning authority is giving Next Generation’s (TNG’s) energy from waste incinerator a third chance to meet the state’s mediocre pollution laws.
“TNG has allegedly answered 967 submissions objecting to the incinerator and now we have to check whether they’ve done this or not,” the Mayor of Blacktown City, Stephen Bali MP said.
“If you or your organisation lodged a submission, I advise you to audit it against the TNG response and check whether or not your issues were properly addressed.
“If they weren’t, you need to let the NSW Department of Planning and Environment know as soon as you can.
“This NSW Government instrumentality is responsible for either approving or rejecting the project.
“Blacktown City Council has been given until Monday, 5 March to lodge its response, so everyone who lodged an objection needs to get cracking.
“My great concern about this and TNG’s other responses is that the incineration process or technology has not changed, but the theoretical modelling that “predicts” the pollution level has.
“How can we have any faith in the moveable and theoretical numbers when the actual effects of the incinerator’s emissions on nearby residents will be permanent and immoveable?
The “Response to Submissions” report follows the public exhibition of an amended environmental impact statement (EIS) for the proposed Energy from Waste incinerator at Eastern Creek.
“This proposal affects everyone in the local area, so please conduct your own review of TNG’s response, which is on the Department of Planning and Environment’s website:
Scroll to the bottom of the planning dept page to see where to make a submission.
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