YORK’S ANATHEMA! The threat from SUEZ regarding Allawuna Farm is over. Or is it?

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           An assessment of those who assessed Allawuna Farm.

TO THE STATE ADMINISTRATION TRIBUNAL MEMBERS (sat@justice.wa.gov.au)
RE: Your Allawuna Farm Landfill Assessment
SAT-
A Tribunal saturated with Lawyers who prove that legality outweighs reality and that ‘Justice’ can be seen to be blind, deaf, dumb and retarded

TO THE DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL REGULATION (info@der.wa.gov.au)
RE: Your Allawuna Farm Landfill Assessment
A putrefied pond of environmental quacks, charlatans and fakirs slavishly following the desires of State Government Ministers and the big end of town with absolutely no regard for the rural environment , economy and community health and welfare.

TO THE DEPARTMENT OF WATER (Atrium.Reception@water.wa.gov.au)
RE:-Your Allawuna Farm Landfill Assessment
We always save the best for last. This is the department that threw the book of Australian seismology records and earthquake hazard modelling in the bin. And is the department that fell asleep at the wheel during the mining boom when WA’s population increased by around 1,800 x 237,600 Kilolitres-per-year ‘water guzzlers’ each week- without taking any reasonable measures to
improve WA’s water supply to meet such a rapidly increasing population demand.
It is why you will be drinking your own urine in the near future.

So Cheers Mia- I’ll have a vodka, lime and soda without the piss/pee/wee thanks!

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It should be woe betide any other company that tries to take up the Allawuna Farm Landfill licence, any politician or local government agency official who supports it and continues to defend the farcical and moronic evaluations by SAT, the Department of Environmental Regulation and the Department of Water that would have allowed it to happen. (Or will they shrug their shoulders and try to do it anyway?)

Remember that the Minister for Water, Mia Davies, has made no known public comment, media statement or Tweet congratulating her constituents in York for dodging the potential economic fiasco and environmental disaster bullets that were the Allawuna Farm project. Her continuing lack of public support may well leave a two-year window of opportunity for other rubbish tip artisans (including Avon Waste) to demand to dig big holes where SUEZ was going to.

Remember, with regard to the Allawuna Farm project itself, the simple questions never adequately answered include why did SUEZ require a significant buffer zone between the landfill site and homes, drinking water catchment areas and main roads when its site was declared safe by every environmental authority under the sun- and the Department of Water? Also the rest of Allawuna was to remain a working farm right next to a massive landfill that would be used for twenty years and its residue embedded there forever?

Why is there 350 hectares of remnant bushland within the 1516 hectares of Allawuna Farm that has remained there for decades? The traditional reason for this is the understanding that it was a required buffer zone between agricultural pursuits and a clear-water catchment area that supplied Mundaring Weir. (Yet according to the Department of Water this catchment area now does not, in all government bureaucratic actuality, exist.)

So nearly one-quarter of the total area of Allawuna farm is covered by bushland that, if removed now, will apparently have absolutely no negative environmental consequences, but increase farm yield and the farms future saleable value? (This could be interpreted as the findings of the Department of Water, SAT and the Department of Environmental Regulation.)

And the best fiction over fact is the government agencies understanding that seismic activity was absolutely no threat to a major city landfill project even though York is in the centre of one of the world’s most active earthquake regions, the South-West seismic zone that stretches from Moora to Albany.

Brookton, 1963, 5.4 on the Richter scale, Meckering, 1968, 6.9, Calingiri, 1970, 5.9 and Cadoux 1979, 6.1, are some examples of earthquake activity that would rupture any underground waste-storage facility in close proximity. (In 2001, in the Southern Ocean- off Albany, there was a massive 7.1 earthquake. At around the same time seismic activity in parts of the South-West seismic zone was at its greatest since the 1960’s.)


If any government seismologist told you that the force of the Meckering earthquake erupting within five kilometres of Perth’s CBD would not have had the potential to reduce many of its buildings to rubble and kill hundreds, if not thousands, you can tell him he is an expert liar.

In 1906, an earthquake 0.9 per cent larger than that of Meckering devastated San Francisco killing 3,000 and demolishing 80 per cent of it buildings.

The SUEZ Allawuna Farm landfill proposal provides some of the most ridiculous misinformation that anyone could possibly hope to get away with by saying its site is located 40 kilometres away from the earthquake prone zone around Meckering. Unfortunately for SEUZ, York, is right in the middle of the same earthquake prone zone that stretches 500 by 300 kilometres from North to South and East to West.

In the past 53-years there have been two significant earthquakes at Brookton and Meckering with York smack-bang in the middle. There have also been thousands of minor quakes. So look your local government seismologist in the eye and ask him if a major earthquake could not occur around York. If he says no- it could not, then he is an expert who is also a liar.

Also remember that any type of expert whose expertise is paid for by a government provides more and more of what the government wants the public to hear and less and less of the truth, until the public knows everything about nothing.

York has now shed the massive encumbrance of a malevolent, self-interested and incompetent Shire of York Administration staff and some Councillors who were backed by those who consider themselves to be- not only the movers and shakers- but the voice of York. These people are no longer a welcome integral part of the real York community and this is something that Councillor Trevor Randell may wish to get his head around.

In the past the voice of big business has tried to drown out the voice of the people. In this case there should no whisper that the Allawuna Farm Landfill project is not dead and buried.

The proverb “waste not- want not” in York’s case is waste-not wanted and that means forever.

David Taylor.

WHERE DID WE WANT IT? NOT HERE! WHEN DID WE WANT IT? NEVER!

It would appear that the last major external obstacle to York’s rejuvenation has been removed with SUEZ shelving its planned Allawuna Farm project.

The surreptitious demand for this project by a Shire of York clique led by Ray Hooper, approval by the then Elected Member for Central Wheatbelt, Brendon Grylls, ridiculously flawed findings by environmental and administration agencies and the failure of the current Elected Member, Mia Davies, to heed the personal appeals from the second largest town in her electorate- has been stymied by the will of the people.

Was it a commercial decision as the WA Managing Director of SUEZ, Niall Stock says? No it was not!

Allawuna Farm was an $8 million single project commenced by SITA nearly four years ago. The June 1, 2016, $87 million acquisition of Perthwaste was a total market-share repositioning by SUEZ who had rebranded its local company, SITA Australia, under the world-wide parent company’s name in 2015.

Stock was told by SUEZ not to proceed with an unnecessary project that was likely to cause public condemnation from here to eternity.

Stock claims that the Allawuna Farm project was acknowledged as an environmentally safe and appropriate development for this site. No it was not. Even the Premier, Colin Barnett, had some strong reservations regarding the site’s suitability.

The SUEZ ‘feel the love’ descriptions of waste management as recycling and re-use solutions and resource recycling did not apply to the Allawuna Farm project. It was to be strictly a huge hole in the ground to be filled with domestic and commercial waste, and asbestos.

Its only recyclable resource would have been the 99.9 per cent Greenhouse Gas Emissions of Methane and Carbon Dioxide with 1 per cent of unknown gases. Both Methane and CO2 are asphyxiates with Methane highly flammable. Both are toxic to humans and animals in high concentrations.

What the other gases would have been and how toxic? No-one knows!

David Taylor

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Never believe what is said in a Press Release. This is what was actually meant. 

DATE 6 July 2016 at 15.42

SUBJECT :- PRESS RELEASE

SUE-US DUMPS ALLAWUNA DUMP

Leading contaminate recycling and dross and grot resource convalescence and rehabilitation purveyors, SUE-US, formally known as SHITA Australia has dumped the dump known as the Allawuna Farm Land-Fail near York.

SUE-US State General Manager, Nail Toxicstock, said the decision was made for commercial reasons, not because of water pollution problems, earthquake concerns, land degradation factors, seriously adverse atmospheric conditions, road fatality possibilities and Mercury, Venus and Mars were not in alignment, as the company had acquired a new waste-dump toy, PerthCrap.

“While the Allawuna Farm debacle was acknowledged as environmentally safe and appropriate for the site by those who had received our very generous handouts before enjoying a free holiday flight with Pig Airways, the PerthCrap acquisition delivered additional infrastructure to SUE-US in Western Australia, which allowed us to remove any possible desire by the people of York to bury my front lawn in 5,000 tonnes of sheepshit”, Mr Toxicstock said.

The $87 million purchase of PerthCrap became effective as of July 1 and has expanded the SUE-US contamination portfolio in WA with additional infrastructure including a polluted landfill at North Bannister, two infected waste transfer stations, two poisonous materials recycling facilities, two used drug needle depots and a decomposing facility.

“SUE-US is excited by our ever expending big and dirty footprint which allows us to deliver innovative and efficient rubbish collection, contaminant recycling and regurgitation solutions to even more local authorities, commercial customers and the broader community in WA” Mr. Toxicstock said.

“MAMMA MIA’ (Lyrics by Max Trenorden-sung by the York Ladies Choir)

You’ve done sweet bugger all since way back when
So early next year this must come to an end
Look at us now, we’ve finally learned
Now that we know, we will take control
In your vote count, a great black hole
No more votes to the polling booth bring
When you’re gone, we’ll try to forget everything
Wo o o oh

(Chorus)
Mamma Mia - soon time to vote again
My my- we will all resist you
Mamma Mia-  it’s time to show again
My my -that we won’t miss you
We won’t be broken-hearted
Just glad that you’ve departed
Why, why?- it’s time to let you go
Mamma Mia- now you’ll really know
My my- we’re going to let you go.

(Guitar solo)

We’ve been angry and sad about the things you don’t do
Soon you’ll count the no votes, that tell you you’re through
And when you go, when we slam the door
I think you know-it will be way too long
You’ll find out that we’re really strong
Just one look and you’ll see there’s nothing
And the Wheatbelt will get up and sing
Wo o o oh

(Chorus)
Mamma-Mia (repeat twice)

THE BIGGEST TWIT YET! (From your legally blonde, legendary leader Mamamia)

Jeez Wheat ‘Belt-Tighteners’.


Barnaby Joyce, our Dear Supreme Leader and American TV’s inbred ‘Mr. Tomato Head’ courtesy of Johnny Depp , concedes that us Nat’s are now considered nits across Australia’s rural, regional and vast empty spaces. (Our local bloke, Terry Redman, is worried too, but he’s not sure what ‘nit’ means. He thinks it might be the abbreviation for a sports star called Nit Nat.

Being the Minister for that Sporty stuff, I told him it was Nic not Nit!

Let’s move on. Those vast empty spaces are in the voter’s heads. In WA, even Pauline (wot was the question?) Hanson, also known as Pauline Pantsdown, is getting sh*t-loads more votes than us.

However I’m not worried, I’m a star Member, I have my star Member moves and if push comes to shove from you lot, I can always shake cocktails at The Lizard Lounge at the YRCC. I hear a few hero- to-zero ex-Councillors slink in there to cheaply drown their accumulated sorrows at ratepayers expense, while having a raucous cackle of self-relief when reading their expensive copy of ‘The Fitz-Gerald Report’.

Speaking of the YRCC, the jewel in the crown of classic commercial financial collapsibility, what is York going to do with his debt riddled sinkhole surrounded by disintegrating faux lawn? It must cost a fortune just to clean the windows?

I can tell your there’ll be no Royalties for Regions bailout for this cash-strapped crypt.

You do know that an anagram for tavern is antre which means cave, hole, even old hole. A pretty good definition for a Local Government owned bar one would have thought-but not me of course!

All my fans in York must have worked out what their tavern tab is by now. It stands at around $4,500 per ratepayer and the loose change is $200 per year, each, to keep the doors from rusting shut. That’s assuming you’re still paying your rates.

This means you will be still forking- out when the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse gallop down Avon Terrace announcing ‘Armageddon Day’ as a must-see York Event.

Now I must have a ‘biartch’ (otherwise known as having a bitch). One of your Taliban has written a letter to the lovely Colin Holt, Minister for Racing Gaming and Boozing about Sergeant, Barry Sargeant of the Liquor Licensing squad.

He had the audacity to call him a bumbling , bureaucratic buffoon who spoon-fed the Shire of York Administration a tavern licence because they had no idea what Public Interest Assessment meant, or more likely that it was a Personal Interest Assessment. It was sort of like that Barry’s mother should have thrown Barry out with the bathwater when he was a very young Barry.      

Minister Holt had the courtesy to reply to this vitriolic verbiage with a personally signed response to these intuitive insults by saying they had been noted. 

Now some will say what Col meant was ‘tell someone who gives a rats-ass’. Yet he had no need to respond, let alone show that he must have read it by signing his name and made no attempt to defend his underling. Maybe he understands that Sergeant Sargeant made a tavern a cave and York’s pecuniary poor-house.

Speaking of bureaucrats, a little mammoth in the room told me the Shire of York is ‘hiring’.

It is going to get the Mount Olympus/ Marvel Comics Employment Agency in West Perth to find a Demigod -dash-Super Hero to fill a couple of positions.

One could be a MS.THOR, who’ll bring her hammer and knock-up her own office prior to indulging in finance, human resources, information technology, customer service, administration, governance, the YRCC , swimming pool and library before fixing-up the Old Convent  on the weekend.

The other may well be a MR. ODIN in charge of works and services, capital projects, asset planning, asset maintenance, planning (maybe some other type of planning?), environmental health, building (what exactly?) ranger and community emergency services before mowing all the Shire lawns and the footy oval when necessary.

I know York Shire has to cut its coat (which it doesn’t have) according to the cloth (which it doesn’t have either) but ‘Wow’ these could be real savings on what would normally be a State Government, 25 bureaucrats-per-day jobs.

York Shire has obviously remembered that to face the future with me and the Nits (sorry Nat’s), it will have to tighten its belt- at least a dozen fiscal notches!

We used to be the Country Party, the political party of the country people, by the country people, for the country people- that shall not perish from the earth. Now we are the Nationals, by the Nationals, for the Nationals.  We might not be as dead as the country economy is right now, but we are certainly on the nose with voters.

Yet there are positive signs. One being I’ve got at least another 8 months, until Election Day, to live of the fat of your land.

SO DON’T’T BE SHY, YOU KNOW WHERE MAMAMIA HANGS OUT (SOMETIMES) AND HER CONTACT NUMBERS. Just DROP ME A LINE.
One of my 20 eager staff members will be there to respond, - otherwise we’ll get in some casuals.