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WASTE company Cleanaway has vehemently denied it is planning to build an incinerator in Ipswich to extend the life of a local landfill site.
The company’s Chief Operating Officer Brendan Gill presented at the Macquarie Australia Conference earlier this month.
The presentation outlined that Cleanaway is reducing the intake of waste at its New Chum landfill in an effort to extend its lifespan by a couple of years.
A court battle over Ipswich City Council’s refusal to approve an application to extend the height of the landfill, and the 5-10 years of ‘airspace’ it would create, is ongoing at a significant cost to ratepayers.
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A STAUNCH anti-dump campaigner says alarming statistics related to the life expectancy and the rates of lung cancer for residents in Ipswich suburbs near waste facilities should be a huge red flag for the state government and needs to be investigated further.
Ipswich Residents Against Toxic Environments secretary Geoff Yarham said the waste industry has already had a “significant effect on people’s amenity and health”.
With a proposed incinerator for Swanbank looming, other waste facilities in the works and Ipswich City Council battling waste operators over the approval of new developments in court, Mr Yarham says anxiety within the community is only rising.