Canning Melville Community Odour Action Group News

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CMCOAG - Newsletter and Updates

Canning Melville Community Odour Action Group

1. Reports of the RRRC WCF Odour Are Pouring In...

2. Dr Mike Nahan MLA Member for Riverton:
"SMRC Rewards Its Own Poor Performance"

3. Please Report The RRRC WCF Odour

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Hi There!

1. Reports of the RRRC WCF Odour Are Pouring In...
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Residents have said they are fed up with copping the RRRC WCF odour. Having to spend another Christmas and start to the New Year with the RRRC WCF odour pouring into their homes - something they were hoping they might be spared.

During the hottest times of the year many residents experiencing the RRRC WCF odour in their homes and streets have reported they are unable to turn their air-cons on or even open their windows to try and cool off, due to the RRRC WCF odour being drawn into their houses.

With sleepless nights from this intense putrid emission, they state the ongoing distress on their family's has been and is often unbearable. With some residents leaving their homes to stay at relatives houses, or just leaving the area in general for a few hours until they know these emissions have subsided.

Constant excuses and ongoing second chances being given for the RRRC WCFacility to be repaired, residents are stating they feel like collateral damage. And are pleading with Local and State Govt to please take action and stop this cruel and unnecessary suffering of innocent families.

2. Dr Mike Nahan MLA Member for Riverton: "SMRC Rewards Its Own Poor Performance"
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Dr Mike Nahan, the Member for Riverton said it is disgraceful that the Southern Metropolitan Regional Council gave its Chief Executive Officer, Chairman, Deputy Chairman and Councillors huge increases in salary, meeting fees and allowances in 2008-09 – a period when the SMRC performed poorly even by its own low standards.

This raises once again serious questions about the accountability and performance of the SMRC. It’s 2008/09 Annual Report shows that:

* The Chief Executive Officer received a salary increase of at least $50,000 or 38%, that is from $130,000 - $139,000 to between $180,000 - $189,999.
* Chairman and Deputy Chairman received a tenfold increase in their allowances from $1,250 to $12,500.
* Councilor’s meeting fees increased by just less than 50% from $40,000 to $59,000

“During a year when many ratepayers were struggling financially, wage rises were at a minimum and considering the poor performance of the SMRC and its management, these increases in remuneration are grossly excessive,” said Dr Nahan.
You can read or download the press release "SMRC Rewards Its Own Poor Performance" here:
http://www.cmcoag.com/news-articles/20100121%20SMRC%20Rewards%20Its%20Own%20Poor%20Performance.pdf

3. Please Report The RRRC WCF Odour
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If you experience the RRRC WCF odour…

Log the odour online - putting it in writing
is vital:
http://www.cmcoag.com/odour-log.htm

and

Log the odour via phone using the Emergency
Pollution Response Numbers Below:

Day Time - 6364 6501
After Hours - 1300 784 782

Kind regards
CMCOAG
http://www.cmcoag.com

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CMCOAG - Newsletter and Updates

Canning Melville Community Odour Action Group

1. SMRC Plant Not Financially Viable

2. Nahan calls for resignation of SMRC Chairman
Doug Thompson and CEO Stuart McAll

3. Residents Covered In Fumes From The RRRC Fire and Debris Concerns

4. Familiar Stench -- Cobb County -- Read this!

5. Take Action Today!

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Hi there!

1. SMRC Plant Not Financially Viable
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Dr Mike Nahan, the Member for Riverton said
the end game was nigh for the SMRC’s composting
plant in Bannister Road, Canning Vale. “It will
be closed, not just for odour pollution but
because of excessive costs,” said Dr Nahan.

Dr Nahan said the SMRC plant was modeled on
a similar plant in Cobb County, Georgia USA.
The SMRC sent representatives to the USA
in 1996 to view that plant’s operations and
based their decision to proceed with the
plant in Canning Vale on Cobb County’s
experience.

“The experience of the Cobb County plant has
been eerily predictive of the problems that
have overwhelmed the SMRC’s Canning Vale
plant. The US plant has been plagued by fire,
odour pollution, community protest, empty
promises, poor management, no market for
output, cost blow-outs, and rising debt,”
said Dr Nahan.

“The SMRC composting plant can no longer be
justified financially. Its business case has
evaporated. Since 2004, its costs for processing
a tonne of municipal solid waste have increased
from $36 per tonne to $137 per tonne in 2009/10.
That is an increase of 400% in the last five years.”
-- See graph below:
http://cmcoag.com/news-articles/SMRC%20Plant%20Not%20Financially%20Viable%20-%20Mike%20Nahan.pdf

2. Nahan calls for resignation of SMRC Chairman
Doug Thompson and CEO Stuart McAll
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“A starting point for the renewal process
must be the resignation of Chairman Doug
Thompson and the CEO Stuart McAll,” said
Dr Nahan.

Dr Mike Nahan, the Member for Riverton,
said it is time to start over with the
Southern Metropolitan Regional Council’s
waste processing facility.

“The fire that destroyed the SMCR’s
materials recycling plant this morning
was a tragedy. The plant was losing money
in the current environment and it will
need to be replaced,” said Dr Nahan.

“A starting point for the renewal process
must be the resignation of Chairman Doug
Thompson and the CEO Stuart McAll,” said
Dr Nahan. These two men have been responsible
for the mismanagement of the SMRC, including...
see here for more on Mike Nahan on SMRC and RRRC Fire:
http://cmcoag.com/news-articles/Time%20To%20Start%20Afresh%20With%20The%20SMRC%20-%20Mike%20Nahan.pdf

3. Residents Covered In Fumes From The RRRC Fire and Debris Concerns
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Residents have been finding debris in their
yards from the RRRC fire. However residents
have stated they "do not trust the SMRC
and don't want them coming around to their
homes", and so haven't asked for help in regards
to the clean-up.

Debris has also been found at the local
Dundee St park right next to where
children were playing on the lawn.

CMCOAG Press Release below...:

Residents Covered In Fumes From The RRRC Fire

After everything the innocent Leeming,
Willeton and Canning Vale residents have
been through over the years stating their
genuine concerns of the ongoing risks of
the RRRC WCF being built so close to them –
this incident is an absolute disaster.
And even worse, this isn’t the first fire
that the RRRC has experienced.

Residents have been begging the State Govt
and Local Councils for years to come to their
aid and protect them from the SMRC’s RRRC WCF
noxious emissions which has been proven by
DEC to be impinging on residents lives.

The SMRC itself have blamed the problems
with the facility on poor management. Creating
a hazardous environment because they seemingly
ignore environment management rules. Yet
have continued to operate in this careless
manner despite the residents ongoing suffering.

Not only are the residents copping the
regular noxious emissions from the RRRC
WCF but they are now are covered in the
horrible toxic fumes from the RRRC fire.
What else are the State Govt and Councils
going to allow the poor residents to go
through before something is done?

The residents rates have continually been
raised to support the SMRC and the RRRC
due to it’s never ending financial problems.
Not only are residents putting up with noxious
emissions and fires but now we may end up
having to pay for the re-building of the
RRRC via our rates.

This is a real tragedy for the residents,
who always seem to end up being the collateral
damage in this issue that no-one seems to
want to address because it has become so large.

4. Familiar Stench -- Cobb County -- Read this!
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Looks like we're not the only residents that
have been exposed to a failing waste facility's
noxious emissions.

The folk of Cobb County, have been through
it all, unfortunately for us the RRRC was
modelled on the failing Cobb County facility:

http://cmcoag.com/news-articles/Familiar%20Stench%20-%20Cobb%20County%20-%20mdjonline.pdf

5. Take ACTION TODAY!
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Write To Your Councils And / Or Attend Council
Meetings And Demand Answers For The Following:

Your Rates rising due to ongoing financial
and environmental issues the RRRC is facing.

Councils continue to fork out for a facility
- using your rates - that is having a negative
impact on the lives of residents for which it
was built so close too.

Remind the councils that the residents were here
first - not the RRRC WCF.

Why should you foot the bill for a facility that
is badly managed and operated?

Remember the councillors are supposed to represent
and care for the rate payers -- although it appears
the City of Melville have turned their back
on the residents.

Support the City of Canning Councillors that
do care about us!

Support Mike Nahan and Joe Francis in their
efforts to help the long-suffering residents.

6. Log the RRRC WCF odour!
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Log the odour online - putting it in writing
is vital:
http://www.cmcoag.com/odour-log.htm

and

Log the odour via phone using the Emergency
Pollution Response Numbers Below:

Day Time - 6364 6501
After Hours - 1300 784 782

Kind regards
CMCOAG
http://www.cmcoag.com

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CMCOAG - Newsletter and Updates

Canning Melville Community Odour Action Group

1. Heads to Roll at the South Metropolitan Regional Council

2. CMCOAG Press Release in Response to SMRC

3. News Articles - You Gotta See It to Believe it!

4. ACTION You Can Take TODAY To Stop The RRRC WCF Odour!

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Hi there

1. Heads to Roll at the South Metropolitan Regional Council
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Dr Mike Nahan and Joe Francis, the
Members for Riverton and Jandakot,
have called for heads to roll at
the South Metropolitan Regional Council.

Dr Nahan and Mr Francis believe the
SMRC has been polluting - much to
the local community’s disgust - for
more than six years.

The SMRC’s Regional Resource Recovery
Centre (RRRC) has failed to act to
the standard of corporate responsibility
expected in our society, which is
particularly disturbing for a local
government agency.

“The Chief Executive Officer, Stuart
McAll and SMRC Chairman Doug Thompson
should fall on their swords and stand
down,” Dr Nahan said.

Read the full press release here:
http://cmcoag.com/news-articles/Heads%20to%20Roll%20At%20SMRC%20-%20Mike%20Nahan%20and%20Joe%20Francis.pdf

2. CMCOAG Press Release in Response to SMRC
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a. Residents are furious that the SMRC's press
release is appearing to imply that
residents suffering is all in their heads.

Residents have stated this is an insult to
the 1000's of rate-payers who are forking
out a fortune in medical expenses due to
the symptoms they continue to state they
experience when exposed to the RRRC WCF
odour, which continually invades their homes.

...Not to mention everyone's hard earned
rates that are being spent on a facility
that is adversely affecting residents lives.

b. As you are probably already aware the SMRC
are blaming the RRRC WCF odour on the Green Waste
section of their facility. One minute they're
blaming the bore water, the next it's other
businesses and now the Green Waste.

>From the period that the SMRC state they
shut down the Green Waste section (stating
it would reduce the odour) through to
yesterday, residents continue to receive
the RRRC WCF odour in full force with 76
online odour reports being logged with
quite of few of them containing several
odour reports within the one log!

SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT...

If the SMRC are so dead-set on stating the
RRRC WCF odour isn’t what’s pumping out
these noxious emissions, will they now
refund the councils and the residents
for the massive maintenance expenditure,
which has cost residents and councils
millions, that they’ve thrown at the
WCF over the years supposedly attempting
to fix it’s noxious odour? :-)

You can read CMCOAG Press Release in response
to the SMRC here:
http://cmcoag.com/news-articles/CMCOAG%20press%20release%20-%20May%202009.pdf

3. News Articles - You Gotta See It to Believe it!
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The STORIES THAT OUTRAGED THE RESIDENTS:
http://cmcoag.com/news-articles/CanningTimes26May2009.pdf
http://cmcoag.com/news-articles/CanningTimes26May2009-2.pdf

"WASTE PLANT Admits to Stink":
http://cmcoag.com/news-articles/melvillecityheraldMay30th2009.gif
http://cmcoag.com/news-articles/melvillecityheraldMay30th20092.gif

Letter to Editor:
"Twisting Words Not Appreciated at The Expense of Residents Suffering!"
http://cmcoag.com/news-articles/Twisting%20Words%20at%20The%20Expense%20of%20Re
sidents%20Suffering..pdf

The above is in response to the following:
http://cmcoag.com/news-articles/Canningtimesletterstoeditorcarolinedunsuremay26
2009.pdf

4. ACTION You Can Take TODAY To Stop The RRRC WCF Odour!
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a. Write to Mike Nahan and Joe Francis

Letting them know how much you applaud their
efforts in standing up for the innocent
residents copping the RRRC WCF odour.

Member for Riverton:
Mike.Nahan@mp.wa.gov.au

Member for Jandakot:
joe.francis@mp.wa.gov.au

b. Write To Your Councils And / Or Attend Council
Meetings And Demand Answers For The Following!

Your Rates are being pumped into the RRRC WCF.

Your Rates are rising to due to ongoing financial
and environmental issues the RRRC is facing.

How dare the councils continue to fork out for a
facility - using your rates - that is having a
negative impact on the lives of residents for
which it was built so close too.

Remind the councils that the residents were here
first - not the RRRC WCF.

Why should you foot the bill for a facility that
is badly managed and operated?

Hold the Councils accountable for their actions.

Remember the councillors are supposed to represent
and care for the rate payers -- however it appears
in this case the rate payers suffering comes second.

There is a small group of Councillors at the
City of Canning who are very concerned for the
residents and genuinely care about this issue. So
why can’t the City of Melville Councillors follow suit,
rather than seemingly passing the buck, over looking
the residents and choosing to support the RRRC WCF.

Residents have stated they have lost confidence in
The City of Melville and that they feel Melville
councillors don’t care about the “forgotten part”
of Leeming or the genuine suffering that it going on
here due to what appears to be poor decision making.

The Residents And Rate-Payers Have The Right and
the Power To Change This by Demanding Action, Answers
and the Truth!

5. Log the RRRC WCF odour!
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Log the odour online - putting it in writing
is vital:
http://www.cmcoag.com/odour-log.htm

and

Log the odour via phone using the Emergency
Pollution Response Numbers Below:

Day Time - 6364 6501
After Hours - 1300 784 782

Kind regards
CMCOAG
http://www.cmcoag.com

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CMCOAG - Newsletter and Updates

Canning Melville Community Odour Action Group

1. SMRC's Health Report

2. Parliamentary Inquiry Findings Are Here!

3. Check out the City of Canning minutes!

4. City of Melville minutes!

5. New Articles - What's in the Papers?

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Hi there

1. SMRC's Health Report
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"Preliminary Health Risk Assessment
of air emissions from SMRC composting
facility at Canning Vale' by Toxikos
Toxicology Consultants"
dated 12 August 2008.

Residents have been waiting for the Health
Report to be released. Much to residents
disgust the document has not been released
to SMRC Councils or the public. And is
deemed by the SMRC as commercial and in
confidence.

2. Parliamentary Inquiry Findings Are Here!
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Report 16
Standing Committee On Environment And
Public Affairs Municipal Waste Management
In Western Australia.

Finding 8: The Committee finds that the
community’s concerns regarding odour issues
at the Regional Resource Recovery Centre
in Canning Vale were legitimate.

Finding 12: The Committee finds that the
Southern Metropolitan Regional Council
had a poor communication strategy with
respect to its Regional Resource Recovery
Centre and the ongoing concerns of the
local community.

You can download the full report here below:
Environment and Public Affairs Committee
Legislative Council
Municipal Waste Management in Western Australia
143 pages, May 2009
http://cmcoag.com/downloads/May%202009%20Parliamentary%20Inquiry.pdf

3. Check out the City of Canning minutes!
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Financial Issues and Struggles of the SMRC
and how much money they are spending, including
their trip overseas to last conference:
http://www.canning.wa.gov.au/Shared/Meetings/Minutes14April2009P.htm
http://www.canning.wa.gov.au/Shared/Meetings/Minutes12May2009P.htm

Cr Barry appointed as Council Representative
to the Southern Metropolitan Regional Council:
http://www.canning.wa.gov.au/Shared/Meetings/Minutes28April2009P.htm

The SMRC has been requested to provide
a copy of the SMRC Health report to the
City of Canning.
http://www.canning.wa.gov.au/Shared/Meetings/Minutes12May2009P.htm

4. City of Melville minutes!
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Questions relating to the SMRC in regards
to rate hikes, the You Tube video, City
of Melville's involvement with the SMRC etc:
Page 4
http://www.melvillecity.com.au/static/attachments/2009/April/Agenda%20-%2021%20April%202009%20-%20OMC2.pdf

5. News Articles
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http://cmcoag.com/news-articles/CanningTimesApr142009Highercostsawaitcouncils.pdf
http://cmcoag.com/news-articles/CanningTimesApr142009lettertoeditor.pdf
http://cmcoag.com/news-articles/Canning%20Times-letters-toeditor-May192009.pdf
NOTE: they didn't print the full version
of Mandy Clarke's letter which you can
read here:
http://cmcoag.com/news-articles/response%20to%20Caroline%20Dunsire%27s%20letter%205%20May%202009.pdf

6. Log the RRRC WCF odour!
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Log the odour online - putting it in writing
is vital:
http://www.cmcoag.com/odour-log.htm

and

Log the odour via phone using the Emergency
Pollution Response Numbers Below:

Day Time - 6364 6501
After Hours - 1300 784 782

Kind regards
CMCOAG
http://www.cmcoag.com

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CMCOAG - Newsletter and Updates

Canning Melville Community Odour Action Group

DEC serves EPN on SMRC

AND

City of Canning withdraws from the SMRC...

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Hi there

1. DEC serves EPN on SMRC
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The Department of Environment and Conservation
(DEC) has issued an Environmental Protection
Notice to the Southern Metropolitan Regional
Council (SMRC) for its waste facility in
Canning Vale.

Full DEC press release here:
http://www.cmcoag.com/downloads/SMRC_EPN_DEC_MS_FINAL_230209-1.pdf

2. City of Canning withdraws from the SMRC...
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QUOTE:
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At 8:20pm, the Mayor then put the motion, as amended, viz:

Following the advice and recommendation provided by Hardy Bowen Lawyers in its confidential advice of 19 February 2009, the Acting Chief Executive Officer be instructed to write to the Southern Metropolitan Regional Council (SMRC), instructing them under the provision of the Establishment Agreement, that:
(a) The City of Canning withdraws from the SMRC immediately.
(b) The City is not amenable to direction in relation to the delivery of waste, other than to the
Regional Resource Recovery Centre (RRRC), and that if the RRRC is unable to accept the
waste, it will be delivered by the City to a site of its choosing.
(c) The SMRC be advised that the City is of the view that there is a dispute in relation to the
obligations of the RRRC, having regard to:
(i) the economic sustainability of the facility; and
(ii) the environmental hazards caused by the facility;
which requires to be dealt with in accordance with the good faith negotiations in the Project
Participants Agreement.
(d) The City should initiate a dispute under the lease in relation to the odour emissions, with a view
to determining whether there has been a breach of the lease.
(e) A further report be presented to Council outlining the progress of the above matters within one
month.
(f) A further report be presented to Council outlining a media campaign to the ratepayers of the
City within one month of this motion.

For full details go here:
http://www.cmcoag.com/downloads/CITY-OF-CANNINGSpecialMeeting19thFeb2009.pdf

3. Log the RRRC WCF odour!
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Log the odour online - putting it in writing
is vital:
http://www.cmcoag.com/odour-log.htm

and

Log the odour via phone using the Emergency
Pollution Response Numbers Below:

Day Time - 6364 6501
After Hours - 1300 784 782

Kind regards
CMCOAG
http://www.cmcoag.com

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CMCOAG - Newsletter and Updates

Canning Melville Community Odour Action Group

City of Canning SMRC Representative Resigns!

AND

RRRC WCF Odour "Out of Control"...

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Hi there

1. City of Canning SMRC Representative Resigns!
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Please read the quote from the City of Canning
minutes below...

Cr Mason: Apart from the ones that you already mentioned, on Thursday, 5 February 2009, I attended the South East District Planning Committee meeting at the Town of Victoria Park.

Mr Mayor, I would also like to read out a statement, which reads as follows:

On the 20 January 2009, I wrote to the Chief Executive Officer of the Southern Metropolitan Regional Council (SMRC), concerning the video that was posted on ‘You Tube’, showing Regional Councillors touring Leeming and Willetton on the bus tour arranged by the SMRC.

In his response, the Chief Executive Officer stated that the video was made by the Chairman, Cr Doug Thompson, with his own equipment and account, and that the SMRC was not involved.

Having personally viewed the video on ‘You Tube’, I have no doubt in my mind that this is not the case.

• The SMRC emailed all Regional Councillors requesting an indication to attend the tours.

• The vehicle was arranged by the SMRC, and paid for by the organisation.

• The vehicle left in one instance from the Regional Resource Recovery Centre (RRRC) car park after the presentation by the Department of Environment and Conservation (DEC) regarding their findings into the odour complaints.

• Cr Thompson is seen on the videos, and others had agreed to use the equipment.

• Many of those captured on the video showed scant or little concern mentioning ratepayers names while standing in front of their complainants homes.

It is my opinion this action has damaged the reputation of those Regional Councillors in attendance, Member Councils, and the SMRC, and defies a logic that this organisation can claim to be ‘engaging the community’. As former Mayor Lee, and myself, were the only ones not to attend this tour, I can only express my disappointment no other Regional Councillor raised objection to this matter being placed on ‘You Tube’.

The actions of those from the Odour Unit have not enhanced that company’s reputation, when they are seen using their noses to ‘sniff out any odour’, and seen laughing and smirking throughout the video, and has left me with no doubt about how serious they are in resolving the issues. I find this makes a mockery of the claim that the DEC should not be using calibrated noses to determine the extent of the odours.

As I have stated previously in this Council, the SMRC post Section 5.93 of the Local Government Act 1995, Improper Use of Information, which imposes a penalty of $10,000 or two years jail, on a person who is a Council Member, a Committee Member, or an employee, that makes improper use of information acquired in the performance of that person, of any of his or her function. And the documents sent to the Regional Councillors, carry that statement, yet they do not appear to apply this Clause to the staff.

Can you imagine what would happen to any Member of this Council, should they choose to film a ratepayer who disagrees with a decision of Council, and then post their address and car registrations on ‘You Tube’.

As a Bannister Ward Councillor for the City of Canning, representing many of the ratepayers affected by the odour from the RRRC, I believe this incident has placed me in a tenuous position as Council’s representative, and I have therefore effective immediately today, tendered my resignation to the Board of the SMRC.
http://www.canning.wa.gov.au/Shared/Meetings/Minutes10February2009P.htm

2. RRRC WCF Odour Out of Control...
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Residents in Leeming and Willetton are stating
they're furious with the ongoing RRRC WCF odour
that they've stated is "out of control"!

Odour reports have surged and residents have
said they're fed up with:

a. How it's affecting their lives and health

b. By the lack of effort from the state govt
and local govt - and feel the City of Canning
is the only council that is taking this issue
seriously

c. Annoyed and insulted by emails and responses
they're receiving from councillors and others
who support the RRRC WCF.

At the end of the day, and DEC has proven
the RRRC WCF odour is impacting the residents,
it's residents rates that are funding the
RRRC WCF and are also copping it's emissions.

It's not fair and residents do not deserve
to have to shut-up and put up with it.

Don’t let yourself be made to feel insignificant
at any time in regards to the RRRC WCF odour.

The more someone is making you feel this way –
it probably means you’re having more of an
impact than you think.

Log the odour online - putting it in writing is vital:
http://www.cmcoag.com/odour-log.htm

and

Log the odour via phone using the Emergency Pollution
Response Numbers Below:

Day Time - 6364 6501
After Hours - 1300 784 782

Keep up the good work... and log the RRRC WCF
on every occassion that you experience it!

Kind regards
CMCOAG
http://www.cmcoag.com

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CMCOAG - Newsletter and Updates

Canning Melville Community Odour Action Group

City of Canning RRRC and the WCF Odour Issue...
RRRC WCF zoning...
SMRC Videos on You Tube...

And the Legislative Council Standing Committee
On Environment And Public Affairs.

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Hi there

So much to tell and so little time to fill you
in, so we'll keep it brief.

1. SMRC Videos Removed from You Tube
--------------------------------

If you didn't know already there's been
plenty of "not so happy" residents appalled
at the latest antics of those who support
the RRRC WCF.

4 x videos were submitted on You Tube which
contained folk from the SMRC and the Odour
Unit driving around in a hire van:

a.Standing out the front of resident's
homes (or in their streets), who complain
about the RRRC WCF odour, and laughing and
making light about the odour issue.

b.And mentioning some of the residents names
that complain about the odour.

This has certainly caused a stir within
State and Local Govt. The videos have recently
been removed from You Tube, but the tornado
effect from it isn't dying down.

2. City of Canning - RRRC WCF zoning...
And the Legislative Council Standing Committee
On Environment And Public Affairs.
---------------------------------

If you haven't read the City of Canning
council minutes of late then please
make the effort to do so:
http://www.canning.wa.gov.au/Shared/Meetings/Minutes27January2009P.htm

Issues have come up in regards to the
RRRC WCF zoning.

And it looks like the City of Canning
are making a submission to the Inquiry
Into Municipal Waste Management In Western
Australia.

The City of Canning are also discussing
the issue of the SMRC Videos that were
on You Tube.

3. Are You Sick of Complaining about RRRC WCF odour?
---------------------------

Feedback from residents is that they're
still copping the RRRC WCF odour - but
they're sick and tired of reporting it.

Heck, who isn't?

But at the end of the day, if you
don't complain then who will know if
you're copping it or not? No one!

The old excuse of "no one is complaining,
so why should we do anything" or "if
no one is complaining doesn't that mean
no one is getting the RRRC WCF odour anymore?"

This is what resident's are up against
when the RRRC WCF odour isn't reported.

Don't allow excuses to be made by those
with a vested interest in this facility.

Sure we're sick of it, so tell them that.

Log the odour and let the folk at the
top of the food chain understand how
frustrated and fed up you are along with
the impact it's having on your family,
pets and home.

Log the odour online - putting it in writing is vital:
http://www.cmcoag.com/odour-log.htm

and

Log the odour via phone using the Emergency Pollution
Response Numbers Below:

Day Time - 6364 6501
After Hours - 1300 784 782

Hard work of concerned residents has and
is having an amazing impact on this issue.

Keep it up!

Remember... The residents were here first,
not the RRRC WCF.

Kind regards
CMCOAG
http://www.cmcoag.com

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CMCOAG - Newsletter and Updates

Canning Melville Community Odour Action Group

~~ RRRC WCF Odour Christmas Concerns

~~ Info on the Petition / Inquiry

~~ DEC's Response to the SMRC odour abatement plan

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Hi there

1. RRRC WCF Odour Christmas Concerns
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As per previous Christmas's, residents are concerned
their plans for the festive season will once again be
thrown into disarray by the RRRC WCF odour. "We're all
keeping our fingers crossed that our Christmas and
New Years time with family and friends will be RRRC
WCF odour-free."

Now more than ever (see Petition and DEC's response to
SMRC) this issue has come to a head and the effort from
the residents has had a huge impact. Make sure on every
occasion you cop this stinking noxious odour that you log it!

Log the odour online:
http://www.cmcoag.com/odour-log.htm

and

Log the odour via phone using the Emergency Pollution
Response Numbers Below:

Day Time - 6364 6501
After Hours - 1300 784 782

2. Info on the Petition / Inquiry
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The Legislative Council’s Standing Committee on
Environment and Public Affairs resolved on 26 November
2008 to inquire into Municipal Waste Management in
Western Australia. The Terms of Reference for the
Inquiry are:

Considering the ongoing community concerns about
the odour emanating from the Regional Resource
Recovery Centre in Canning Vale (RRRC), the Committee
resolves to use the issues surrounding the RRRC
as an illustrative practical case study to conduct
a broader inquiry...

You can read more here:
http://cmcoag.com/news-articles/Committee-launches-new-inquiry-Dec-2008.pdf

3. DEC's Response to the SMRC odour abatement plan
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The Department of Environment and Conservation (DEC)
has stipulated that significant amendments be made
to an odour abatement plan submitted by the
Southern Metropolitan Regional Council (SMRC).

The SMRC's Canning Vale Regional Resource Recovery Centre
is a recycling and composting facility that has been
the subject of odour complaints from the surrounding
community for several years.

DEC Deputy Director General Robert Atkins said the
abatement plan needed considerable improvements to
ensure that it leads to effective odour management
at the facility.

You can read more here:
http://cmcoag.com/news-articles/DEC%20Press%20Release%2012%20Dec%202008%20-%20Odour%20Plan%20Falls%20Short.pdf

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On that note, we wish you all a lovely Christmas
and New Year.

Thanks so much for your efforts, support and hard work.

And Remember, logging the RRRC Waste Composting Facility
Odour is vital.

Kind regards
CMCOAG
http://www.cmcoag.com