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.