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Premium Content Subscriber only WASTE company Cleanaway has vehemently denied it is planning to build an incinerator in Ipswich to extend the life of a local landfill site. The company’s Chief Operating Officer Brendan Gill presented at the Macquarie Australia Conference earlier this month. The presentation outlined that Cleanaway is reducing the intake of waste at its New Chum landfill in an effort to extend its lifespan by a couple of years. A court battle over Ipswich City Council’s refusal to approve an application to extend the height of the landfill, and the 5-10 years of ‘airspace’ it would create, is ongoing at a significant cost to ratepayers. ....
Premium Content Subscriber only A STAUNCH anti-dump campaigner says alarming statistics related to the life expectancy and the rates of lung cancer for residents in Ipswich suburbs near waste facilities should be a huge red flag for the state government and needs to be investigated further. Ipswich Residents Against Toxic Environments secretary Geoff Yarham said the waste industry has already had a “significant effect on people’s amenity and health”. With a proposed incinerator for Swanbank looming, other waste facilities in the works and Ipswich City Council battling waste operators over the approval of new developments in court, Mr Yarham says anxiety within the community is only rising. ....
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Premium Content Subscriber only THE State Government has ordered a waste company to stop pumping contaminated water out of a mining void into an Ipswich creek, which it was allegedly doing for two weeks. The Department of Environment and Science issued Bogside Mining Industries with an environmental protection order (EPO) directing the company to stop dewatering the mine void on its New Chum site into Six Mile Creek on February 3. Department officers inspected the site on January 29 in relation to a complaint about an alleged unlawful pumping station on the site which may have resulted in water being pumped from the void into the creek. ....