After the clumsy piece of duck-shoving displayed in the previous post by Ministerial Chief of Staff Mr Ian Porter, we eventually received a reply from EPA CEO and fellow Costerfield Update Community Update member Mr Nial Finegan regarding the status of our report into, among other things, the previous proliferation of aquatic life in the Wappentake Creek.
Goodish news, this... let's hope it portends some decisive action on restoring the creek to its previous conditions and maintaining those conditions going, as they say, forward...
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Sunday 30 July 2017
Response to the Response to Costerfield Operations...
After sending the report in the previous post we received the following reply from Mr Ian Porter, Chief of Staff to Minister D'Ambrosio.
It would seem that Mr Porter is/was not fully aware that he works for the Minister for Energy, Environment and Climate Change; nor does/did he seem to be aware of the Environmental Protection Authority's role in the approval process for the release of RO water into the Wappentake Creek.
In light of the communication we subsequently received we wonder whether Mr Porter even bothered to have a chat with the Minister herself before sending this dismissive handball of a letter ostensibly on her behalf...
And, of course, the "office of the Hon Wade Noonan MP, Minister for Resources" has not bothered to either acknowledge or respond to the original communication.
Duckshoving of community concerns from department to department...
The more things change...
It would seem that Mr Porter is/was not fully aware that he works for the Minister for Energy, Environment and Climate Change; nor does/did he seem to be aware of the Environmental Protection Authority's role in the approval process for the release of RO water into the Wappentake Creek.
In light of the communication we subsequently received we wonder whether Mr Porter even bothered to have a chat with the Minister herself before sending this dismissive handball of a letter ostensibly on her behalf...
And, of course, the "office of the Hon Wade Noonan MP, Minister for Resources" has not bothered to either acknowledge or respond to the original communication.
Duckshoving of community concerns from department to department...
The more things change...
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