Botany Bay and Catchment Alliance

BBACA has written to Frank Sartor explaining why the current community consultation arrangements for planning are unacceptable.

Read the full Letter to Frank Sartor

Read the Newsletter from Residents Against Polluting Stakes, August 2006

Read the Newsletter from Residents Against Polluting Stakes, June 2006 #2

Read the Newsletter from Residents Against Polluting Stakes, June 2006 #1

Dioxin emissions in southern Sydney have led to the shutdown of a new ground water treatment plant at Botany.
The Department of Environment and Conservation has asked Orica to close down the plant until it can prove that it can meet the plant’s air emission standards.
Orica’s testing has revealed that dioxin emissions have breached the standards twice.
The company, which used to be ICI chemicals, was ordered to clean up a plume of contaminated ground water which was heading for Botany Bay, after it failed to honour a voluntary clean-up agreement.

The plant began operating late last year.