Botany Bay and Catchment Alliance

The Plan has been finalised and is available on the Sydney Catchment Management Authority website (Right – map of subcatchments)

Key recommendations:

To ensure water quality improves in Botany Bay and  its Catchment actions will need to be implemented at different levels of government as well as by the community. Below is a list of recommended actions each group should undertake to support the Botany Bay & Catchment WQIP. Those considered to be of highest priority are shown in bold.

5.1.1 Australian Government

5.1.1.1 Reviews and endorses the Botany Bay & Catchment WQIP,

5.1.1.2 Sets up a specific funding program to implement actions listed in the Botany Bay & Catchment  WQIP, possibly via a devolved grants program,

5.1.1.3 Ensures all grants or funding allocated in the Botany Bay Catchment are consistent (more…)

9 October 2007

Media release  Contact: Andrew Macintosh (02) 6162 4146 or 0403 804 540

Shipping’s falling market share is making greenhouse emissions worse: New Report from The Australia Institute (more…)

An international working group of scientists, researchers and public health policy professionals (The BioInitiative Working Group) has released its report on electromagnetic fields (EMF) and health. They document serious scientific concerns about current limits regulating how much EMF is allowable from power lines, cell phones, and many other sources of EMF exposure in daily life.

The report concludes the existing standards for public safety are inadequate to protect public health.  Full report at http://www.bioinitiative.org/
 

Climate Change in the Sydney Metropolitan Catchments  This CSIRO report has just been circulated by the Sydney Metropolitan Catchment Management Authority.

A survey of aircraft noise and its impact on self-assessed quality of life was conducted in Sydney by A/Prof Deborah Black and Prof John Black of UNSW. Subjects (aged 15 – 87) chronically exposed to aircraft noise have odds of 2.61 61 (95% CI 1.42 – 4 .80) of having stress, and those chronic noise stress individuals have odds of 2.74 (95% CI 1.55 – 4.84) of having hypertension compared with those without chronic noise stress. New research design – a novel intervention based on meditation – is outlined for application by environmental managers wishing to be more pro-active in embracing health impacts of airport operations…..read full paper…