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The public transport advocacy group for Victoria, Australia
Media Release
30/11/1998
Scoresby Freeway Threatens Nillumbik Green Wedge -
EPA
The Environment Protection Authority will tomorrow
criticise the State Government's Environment Effects Statement on
the proposed Scoresby Freeway.
In its submission to panel hearings on the Scoresby
Transport Corridor EES tomorrow, the EPA will state that
"environmentally sensitive" areas "namely the Nillumbik Green
Wedge" will be threatened by the transport pressures of the
Scoresby Freeway development.
The EPA will also argue that the
EES:
fails to establish the impact of key pollutants on
human health from the proposed Scoresby Freeway
is "misleading"and understates the effects of ozone on
human health
is "inaccurate and misleading" on fine particle
pollution and failed to consider roadside pollution
fails to consider cancer-causing air toxics such as
benzene
is "confused" about environment protection policies and
measures and has not used the latest national environmental
protection standards.
The EES has listed four options for consideration
by the panel, all of which feature the Scoresby Freeway as the
central proposal; a fifth option which made public transport
improvements the major proposal, was dropped from the final
EES.
The EPA notes that the EES supports urban planning
solutions which require public transport servicing but says the EES
has failed to investigate this option, PTUA vice-president John
McPherson, said: "It Is remarkable that a State agency,VicRoads,
has failed to accept the advice which the expert agency, the EPA,
could have offered in the EES process."
"The EPA has now confirmed that the Green Wedge is
under threat and that the only environmentally sustainable option
for the corridor, public transport, has been ignored."
(The EPA will presents its submission to the
Scoresby Transport Corridor EES at the panel hearing room,
Olderfleet Building 477 Collins St at 9.30 am.)
A copy of the EPA submission is available.
Contacts:
PTUA Office 9650 7898
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