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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 1997 Week 5 Hansard (14 May) . . Page.. 1410 ..

Mr Berry
(continuing):

TOTALCARE WASTE TREATMENT FACILITY - MITCHELL
Motion

MR OSBORNE (4.09): I move:

That this Assembly calls on the Government to implement the following procedures at its Totalcare waste treatment facility in Mitchell:

(1) completion of an inventory of all waste material currently being stored on site for incineration;

(2) the operation of a manifest recording system for all waste materials that come onto the site for incineration and the temperature at which they are burnt;

(3) disclosure of the non-financial details of contracts currently being considered, or already entered into, regarding the storage and subsequent incineration of pesticides;

(4) disclosure of the details of all previous pesticide incineration at the facility;

(5) placement of a moratorium on the incineration of pesticides at the facility;

(6) monitoring of post-scrubber gas emissions in accordance with world's best practice for a range of compounds to be determined by the Pollution Control Authority;

(7) permit unannounced random inspections of the facility by the Pollution Control Authority;

(8) permit the documentation associated with the implementation and maintenance of these procedures to be available and readily accessible to the public.

My involvement in this issue began earlier this year, when various claims were being made about the burning of pesticides in the Totalcare incinerator. I would like to say at the outset that in this case I think we were all wondering exactly what was going on out there. I do not claim to be a scientist or even to have a great deal of scientific knowledge; so, some of the information that we were receiving was quite mind-boggling. What I do know, however, is that the claims being made about the safety of burning pesticides at Totalcare are of great concern to the people of Gungahlin and the other suburbs surrounding Mitchell.

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