SMRC Anti-Pong Plan Stays Secret
Source: www.fremantleherald.com
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Residents Being Bluffed Again…? Off-Site Trial For Green Waste
Are the SMRC and DEC still trying to bluff the residnets with the green waste excuse? Get a load of this... Source: www.communitydigital.com.au
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Residents Are Digusted!… SMRC hires ex-Liberal Party Chief
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Strong Measures To Reduce Odours
THE South Metropolitan Regional Council (SMRC) will have to introduce strong odour-reducing measures for the Regional Resource Recovery Centre (RRRC) to gain its next licence. The latest licence, issued on October 21 by the Department of Environment and Conservation (DEC), requires the SMRC to in
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Stemming the odour
THE South Metropolitan Regional Council (SMRC) will have to put into practice strong odour-reducing measures for the Regional Resource Recovery Centre (RRRC) to gain its next licence. The latest licence, issued on October 21 by the Department of Environment and Conservation (DEC), requires the SM
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New Team In Melville
By JESSICA NICO THE results are in for this year’s local government elections, with Saturday’s vote choosing a mayor and three ward councillors to represent the City of Melville until 2015. Russell Aubrey won the four-candidate race for mayor after he received almost 10,000 votes to easily
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DEC odour report found smells from the site were still plaguing Willetton and Leeming.
MORE waste will enter landfill if the Regional Resource Recovery Centre is forced to close because of odour complaints, members of the South Metropolitan Regional Council say. The waste facility has been given six months to fix odour problems or face closure by the Minister for Environment and Co
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Fresh Faces Take A Stand
Robert Willis, who is running against current councillor Rasa Subramaniam in the Bull Creek-Leeming ward, said solutions needed to be found for many problems. “We need to find a solution for the Southern Metropolitan Regional Council waste composting facility (because) the ?odour problem has
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Smelly Waste Plant Given Closure Threat
BEATRICE THOMAS, The West Australian September 15, 2011, 9:38 am A waste processing plant at the centre of eight years of complaints over foul smells has been given six months to fix the odour issue or risk closure. In what appears to be the strongest response so far to problems with the cou
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Six Month Deadline To Fix Odour Problems
ENVIRONMENT Minister Bill Marmion has given the Regional Resource Recovery Centre (RRRC) six months to eliminate odours plaguing Leeming and Willetton or face closure. The ultimatum follows the results of the Community Odour Monitoring Program, co-ordinated by the Department of Environment and Co
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Deadline Issued On Odour
‘After eight years of public outcry and millions of dollars in failed remedial work by the SMRC, ’local families deserve better. By ANNE GARTNER ENVIRONMENT Minister Bill Marmion has given the Regional Resource Recovery Centre (RRRC) six months to eliminate odours plaguing Willetton and Leem
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SMRC’s Licence Should Not Be Renewed Next Month
Media Statement Dr Mike Nahan MLA Member of Riverton Dr Mike Nahan, the Member for Riverton, said the Southern Metropolitan Regional Council’s licence to operate, which expires on 22 October 2011, should not automatically be renewed in light of the SMRC’s appalling record of emitting anno
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Residents Raise A Stink
OPPONENTS of the Regional Resource Recovery Centre (RRRC) have renewed calls for the centre to close following an odour-monitoring program showing green waste and fermented garbage odours still plague the surrounding areas. The Leeming and Willetton Community Odour Monitoring program, co-ordinate
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Tip Odours Still On Nose
Calls renewed for closure of RRRC By ANNE GARTNER OPPONENTS of the Regional Resource Recovery Centre (RRRC) have renewed calls for the centre to close after an odour-monitoring program showed green waste and fermented garbage odour still plagued surrounding areas. The Leeming and Willetton Comm
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Whiff Of Hope To Cut Rubbish Dump Smell
By ANNE GARTNER RESEARCHERS at Murdoch University are making progress in developing a new material that could reduce odour emissions at composting facilities, such as at the troubled Regional Resource Recovery Centre. Environmental engineer Goen Ho and associate Ralf Cord-Ruwisch are investiga
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Cost Claims Add To SMRC’s Woes
THE Southern Metropolitan Regional Council (SMRC) maintains its controversial Canning Vale waste processing plant is still costneutral, despite existing debts and the threat of another council ceasing to use the facility. SMRC spokesman Chuck Ellis defended figures in the council’s 2010 annual
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Waste Centre Review – Benefits And Costs To Be Weighed
THE City of Melville is the next local government in line to reconsider whether it will continue to use the Southern Metropolitan Regional Council’s (SMRC) Regional Resource Recovery Centre (RRRC) in Canning Vale. A report is expected to outline whether the environmental benefits associated wit
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Nahan Attacks Council Over Resource Centre Debt
RIVERTON MLA Mike Nahan has dismissed claims by the SMRC that the Regional Resource Recovery Centre is cost-neutral as “utterly ridiculous” and said the facility’s overblown budget should be resolved as good business practice. “Each year, the SMRC looks at the RRRC’s forecast versus act
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Public Forum Called
CANNING Council will conduct a public forum before voting on a proposed change of use for a mineral analysis laboratory in Canning Vale, following concerns there would be handling of hazardous materials such as uranium at the site. The Baile Road facility, MinAnalytical Laboratory Services Austra
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