25 February 2011
Smashed by noise through the night.
If the EPA or the Corangamite Shire or Woodside-Origin, anyone who supposedly should have a professional and moral interest, were at all interested they would know this is our 62nd complaint for 2010-2011 season of noise.
Wonder if the orange glow was visible for the tourists on Victoria's Great Ocean Road and at the Twelve Apostles?
sincerely
mr rogered
Thursday, February 24, 2011
Thursday, February 17, 2011
Another Gassing
The quote below is from a person who lives some three kilometres from the Woodside cum Origin and the Tru Energy gas plants. Both plants are near to Victoria's Great Ocean Road and the Twelve Apostles.
Mr and Mrs Rogered have deliberatley not included the writer's name. They cop enough grief for their stance as it is. One less person having to wear scorn is the way it should be.
Noise.
"I live some 3km southwest of the plant on the western side of the Port Campbell valley, and frequently hear the noise of the plant operating.
This takes the form of dull grinding sounds, mechanical whirrings, vehicle reversing beeps and occasional explosions of sound which can be quite disturbing.
This is of course worst on those beautiful calm evenings when I used to like to sit outside and enjoy the evening stillness. No longer can I do this.
I loved to listen to the crash of the waves on the outside reefs, knowing that tomorrow would bring good surf. Now I no longer know whether it's the gas plant or the waves that are making the noise. I find this quite distressing and a hugely negative impact on my life.
When the emergency flare goes off, sometimes waking me in the middle of the night, it sounds like a massive jet engine exploding overhead. This can be frightening.
Some nights I am forced to wear earplugs to get to sleep.
Surely at 3km distance from the plant I shouldn't be able to hear anything, and certainly not if the plant was operating within its licence conditions."
A Little History
Mr and Mrs Rogered have some four years of correspondence, mostly based on complaints about noise.
No one, not the Corangamite Shire (with the exception of councillor Cummings), Woodside, or the EPA, apart from Michael Fitzgerald, have rarely taken our complaints seriously. None of our neighbours complain as we believe that, nearly to a person, all may have been bought out by the gas companies. Our veracity is constantly questioned.
But below are some interesting figures. The combined noise of three gas plants (Woodside cum Origin, TRU Energy and Sea Gas) is not supposed to exceed 35 dBA.
Below are some figures a Woodside employee took from near our back door in 2009.
No one, not the Corangamite Shire (with the exception of councillor Cummings), Woodside, or the EPA, apart from Michael Fitzgerald, have rarely taken our complaints seriously. None of our neighbours complain as we believe that, nearly to a person, all may have been bought out by the gas companies. Our veracity is constantly questioned.
But below are some interesting figures. The combined noise of three gas plants (Woodside cum Origin, TRU Energy and Sea Gas) is not supposed to exceed 35 dBA.
Below are some figures a Woodside employee took from near our back door in 2009.
Woodside Readings from Sat 31 Jan 2009
LEQ average: 51.7dB
L90 average: 40.8
Sun 1 Feb:
LEQ average: 48.3dB
L90: 40.8
Of course, nothing has ever come of this or anything else
A Beautiful Day for Industrial Drones
It looks like it is going to beautiful morning; the sun is overcoming its shyness and rising out of the black and there is no wind. The country air has been laundered by the night and the occassional bird is moved to song.
But the birds have plenty of competition. The gas plant(s) is roaring. Drilling into our brains. Good morning Port Campbell (we would normally email a complaint to the EPA but considering this would be our 61st complaint for 2010-11 we've given up on doing that.)
About Us
We, Mr and Mrs Rogered (not our real names) live on the coast in south-west Victoria, Australia. We're near to the renowned Twelve Apostles and the Great Ocean Road. For some four years we've been fighting against Woodside and Origin, just two of the companies that were inexplicably granted permission to build gas plants within sight of Victoria's Great Ocean Road (the Woodside cum Origin plant is the only one visible from the Ocean Road). They make our life hell with noise and gas flares and explosions of sound that shake buildings more than a kilometre away.
Of course, as a lone voice it's very difficult to get authorities to listen; not even the EPA seem interested in battling these modern Goliaths. Anyway, enough sop. We thought there must be other people like us who have been rogered by the lies, deceit and mis-placed self-righteousness of big business.
So, if you've been shafted, let us know We'll keep you updated with our fight along the way
sincerely
Mr Rogered
P.S. world-class and iconic and jaw-dropping and beautiful and majestic and amazing and . . . (sorry: pause for breath) are other much-abused words used to describe the Twelve Apostles. We use them here on the remote chance a few more key words will lift this blog from the nether regions of Google et al.
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