Brooklyn, Melbourne: Residents dirty over plan to build soil-washing plant
A dust-up is brewing over a proposal to build a plant to clean contaminated soil in Melbourne’s west.
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A dust-up is brewing over a proposal to build a plant to clean contaminated soil in Melbourne’s west.
The Maribyrnong Truck Action Group (MTAG) is renewing calls for the state government to take immediate action to reduce truck-related […]
An estimated 11,000 trucks a day travel to and from the Port of Melbourne through the City of Maribyrnong. Residents there are being hospitalised with respiratory and cardiovascular issues in alarming numbers.
Goya Dmytryshchak Hobsons Bay council has moved to improve the health of residents in Brooklyn, which has the eighth highest air pollution concentrations in Australia and a rising rate of lung cancer among young people who have never smoked. Cr Tony Briffa moved a motion at the last council meeting to bring together all parties responsible to address the issues, which they said had plagued residents for more than 15 years. The council will seek to meet with neighbouring councils and other stakeholders to discuss air quality issues in Brooklyn under its Brooklyn Air Quality Advocacy Plan. The ...