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Blacktown Greens

Locality: Blacktown

Address: Address 2148 Blacktown, NSW, Australia

Website: http://nsw.greens.org.au

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23.01.2022 Western Sydney Direct Action writes as follows: Cleanaway's Blacktown Incinerator proposal is within Western Sydney Parklands, "The Lungs of Western Sydney" and the water catchment for Prospect Reservoir. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prospect_Reservoir The State Environmental Planning Policy (Western Sydney Parklands 2009) (SEPP) requires that any development within the area regulated within this policy be shown to have only a neutral (i.e. no change) or beneficial impac...t on the quality of water in the bulk water supply infrastructure shown on the relevant maps included in the regulation. The bulk water infrastructure that is located in this area includes the pipelines that take water to and from Prospect Reservoir and Prospect Reservoir itself. Cleanaways EIS states The potential for deposition onto the surface of water within Prospect Reservoir and for wash off from the small catchment for this water body has been considered in this assessment. Cleanaways EIS states that Prospect Reservoir will have a small change to concentrations of chemicals Any change to water quality is a breach of the SEPP. "Run-off from hard-standing will be directed to the bioretention basin". (PG 750 EIS). The local Bioretention basin must not be used to filter waste incinerator water and sediment. This practice would put at risk The Hawkesbury-Nepean river system, an important natural asset and one of the largest coastal river catchments along the NSW coastline. It is the main source of drinking water for over 4.5 million people, or 70 percent of the NSW population. Its waters also support agricultural and horticultural industries that generate more than $1 billion annually, including $259 million of irrigated agriculture which supplies much of Sydney’s fresh food. This catchment covers 2.2 million hectares (22,000 square kilometres). Cleanaways incinerator will have a negative impact on the quality of water - leading to soil pollution and damage to ecosystems through eutrophication (Eutrophication is a leading cause of impairment of many freshwater and coastal marine ecosystems in the world e.g From acid rain and excess nitrogen pollution). Make your opinion known by doing our survey today: https://forms.gle/WE7SYBNUM5vSzzUW8W See more

16.01.2022 Blacktown Greens at anti Adani action outside HSBC Barangaroo today.

16.01.2022 Happy reading, everyone--well, kind of...

10.01.2022 Said Gladys this morning, according to the Guardian Australia: "At this stage of our response to the current outbreak, you will see a lot of volatility, numbers will continue to bounce around as those close contacts in all likelihood start to develop the disease and if they’re in isolation, that’s no cause for concern, but if like the Croydon cluster, we can’t identify the source of the infection, that is enormous cause for concern." Does Gladys really think it's no cause for concern if close contacts in isolation develop corona virus? Perhaps those who have experienced severe symptoms have a different view.

03.01.2022 This massive issue hasn't gone away just because we're having a nice lot of rain in Sydney. A good time to show solidarity with people in the outback whose livelihoods are threatened as the lakes and rivers are put to death.