Wednesday, September 26, 2012

Yet Another Explosion at Origin Gas Plant: More EPA Inaction


Below is a copy of an email sent to the EPA following yet another explosion from
the Origin gas plant at Port Campbell, near the Great Ocean Road and the 12 Apostles

Dear EPA,

The Origin gas plant has exploded (1.50pm 27 September) yet again - I wonder how many times this happened without Origin being held to account in the two months we were away.

Also, as directed by the EPA we called the pollution line last week when the noise was a constant for more than 24 hours.

We asked for someone from the EPA to get in touch with us to advise on what action would be taken following our complaint

Not surprisingly we haven't heard from anyone at the EPA.

sincerely
us and us

Sunday, September 16, 2012

A Reminder to the EPA

In August (2012) the EPA announced in a strategic plan that finally it was finally going to take the toxic noise produced by the gas plants near the 12 Apostles seriously. This gave us hope that the EPA might actually start fulfilling their charter and actually begin to do something in regard to policing the industrial noise in south-west Victoria.

It's the middle of September (2012) and not surprisingly we are almost certain nothing yet has happened in this regard. So below is a reminder about some readings that were taken more than three years ago, before Origin bough the troubled Woodside gas plant.

Woodside Readings from Sat 31 Jan 2009

LEQ average: 51.7dBA
L90 average: 40.8dBA

Sun 1 Feb:

LEQ average: 48.3dBA
L90: 40.8dBA

Of course, nothing has ever come of this or anything else

sincerely

Mr and Mrs Rogered

Note: the gas plant is only licensed to emit 35db of noise. Noise is not a linear measurment and the above readings are more than double the licence limit. The EPA of course did not act on these readings