Ipswich Residents Against Toxic Environments Inc.

The attached leaflet landed in many letterbox this week. Not all households received it as other members of IRATE in Collingwood Park had not seen it. It is another scam attempt to  the community  by this company. Background In 2011 as part of their application MCU 4250/2011, Cleanaway tried to increase the Council approved height of its final landform at New Chum from RL70 metres to RL120 metres. They inadvertently withdrew this part of the application when they revised it subsequent to a P&E Court decision in their favour regarding rate of disposal. Nevertheless they continued on their merry way,  overfilling one part of the site by over 1 million cubic metres (I believe the figure is around 1.3 million).  The overfilling was discovered by IRATE and alerted to authorities. Council did not ask Cleanaway to remove the overfill and redistribute it to other cells, but required the company to submit a reprofiled landform plan with new contours and...

Waste safeguards now in place for Ipswich http://statements.qld.gov.au/Statement/2018/4/7/waste-safeguards-now-in-place-for-ipswich The TLPI should ameliorate the issues that have been experienced by communities living with the waste industry in New Chum and Swanbank, and buy the Council time while it reviews its Town Planning Scheme. State Member for Bundamba deserves credit for her part in getting it to happen. Among the most important changes - only filling mining voids to their top edge (ie. no mountain of waste over the hole), an increased buffer area which it is to be hoped will greatly restrict some activity or proclude it altogether, the requirement for all composting to be enclosed and not open-air, and a defined waste activity area which in New Chum recognises the very close proximity of residential development in Bundamba and Blackstone but also Collingwood Park and Riverview. We do have some concerns. 1. The TLPI has effect for 2 years but can be repealed earlier. T...

Dump operators BMI have submitted a development application for a new toxic mega -dump next to the suburbs of Collingwood Park, Dinmore, Riverview and Ebbw Vale despite promising to inform the community before doing so. In January this year, representatives of BMI (CPR Group) met with IRATE community members to gauge opposition to their plans and gave a promise to inform them before lodging any application. IRATE members and Bundamba MP, Jo Ann Miller made it very clear to them that plans for a new dump would be vehemently opposed. It has also emerged that Division 3 Councillor Kerry Silver and other members of the Council met with representatives of BMI on at least two occasions prior to the application being submitted. Ipswich City Council have refused to release minutes of those meetings. IRATE oppose this new dump on several grounds: There is already an existing dump operated by Cleanaway next door which is causing considerable nuisance to the community The proposed site...

BMI have applied to build one of Australia's largest waste dumps right in the middle of known Koala habitat but even more concerning is the fact this is in the last known area which supports Australia's rarest shrub, the Cooneana Olive ( Notelaea ipsviciensis ). "The plant only exists in a two square kilometre area of Dinmore and Ebbw Vale and this listing by the Threatened Species Scientific Committee will allow for conservation advice to be notified on the species which was only discovered in these two Ipswich suburbs in 1976." https://www.ipswich.qld.gov.au/about_council/media/article-archive/2009/cooneana-olive-on-critically-endangered-list " Hiding under power lines and growing between abandoned mines and clay pits near Ipswich is one of Australia’s rarest plants.  Only 17 of the native Cooneana Olive shrubs have been identified in Australia and all of them grow along the Cunningham Highway at Ebbw Vale and New Chum. " https://www.uq.edu.au/ne...

Local MP Denied access to Environmental DG by Minister Fire at Cleanaway New Chum site - July 2017 In an   "Unprecedented response"  from the Minister, Leeanne Enoch, local MP Jo-Ann Miller was denied access to have a meeting with the Director General (DG) of Environment Department. Jo-Ann Miller was requesting such a meeting as a consequence of concerns raised by community organisation, IRATE, after the recent CRG meeting with Cleanaway, Dept of Environment and ICC. (See below) Hi Jo-Ann Last night at the New Chum CRG meeting the following significant issues were raised. Cleanaway has been issued an updated Environmental Authority (EA) under the new "streamlined EA approach" of DES.  This new EA is significantly less arduous for Cleanaway and any other future dump in Queensland as the document is less "prescriptive" than previous approvals. At the meeting IRATE challenged Cleanaway about the issues of dust and fires, and parti...

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