Dear all desalination concered people



I have just uploaded the Binningup Desalination Action Group's PER

submission to the Western Australian Environmental Protection Authority

dated 13th of June 2008.



http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nodesalination/files/

(click on groups concerned or opposed)



This submission is packed with 86 pages of information about the

environmentally harmful impact of building a massive desalination plant

in a remote coastal ecosystem.



The plant will threaten a number of rare and endangered species

inhabiting the plant site however it will also have the same adverse

impacts on the environment as any other plant planned to be constructed

in Australia such as:

-air pollutants

-marine pollutants

-solid waste disposal

-hypersaline discharges

-low disolved oxygen levels in ocean depressions near the plant

-noise and vibration

-construction impacts on the community

-construction dewatering

-seawater intrusion

-acid sulphate soils

-energy use

-powerline hazards

-access to land from powerlines and pipelines

-effects on residents

-property values

-visual amentity

-beach access

-social problems form large construction workforce

-effect on seagrass

-effects on, fish and tiny biota

-effects on cetaceans, turtles, penguines etc

-effects on land animals, tiny and microscopic soil creatures

-effects on migratory birds

-carcinogenic THM's in the product water

-risk assessment

-attracting heavy industry

-etc



I suggest you read this and post any comments to the group.



Please load in any submissions to the yahoogroup that you or other

groups have prepared on the same issue.



Regards



Michael Derry

Western Australia

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nodesalination/

See Perth catchment rainfall updated at;

http://www.warwickhughes.com/blog/?p=187

There never was a rain shortage to justify seawater desalination



--- In nodesalination@yahoogroups.com, Michael Derry <derry@...> wrote:

>

> Dear all desalination concered people

>

> I have just uploaded the Binningup Desalination Action Group's PER

> submission to the Western Australian Environmental Protection Authority

> dated 13th of June 2008.

>

> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nodesalination/files/

> (click on groups concerned or opposed)

>

> This submission is packed with 86 pages of information about the

> environmentally harmful impact of building a massive desalination plant

> in a remote coastal ecosystem.

>

> The plant will threaten a number of rare and endangered species

> inhabiting the plant site however it will also have the same adverse

> impacts on the environment as any other plant planned to be constructed

> in Australia such as:

> -air pollutants

> -marine pollutants

> -solid waste disposal

> -hypersaline discharges

> -low disolved oxygen levels in ocean depressions near the plant

> -noise and vibration

> -construction impacts on the community

> -construction dewatering

> -seawater intrusion

> -acid sulphate soils

> -energy use

> -powerline hazards

> -access to land from powerlines and pipelines

> -effects on residents

> -property values

> -visual amentity

> -beach access

> -social problems form large construction workforce

> -effect on seagrass

> -effects on, fish and tiny biota

> -effects on cetaceans, turtles, penguines etc

> -effects on land animals, tiny and microscopic soil creatures

> -effects on migratory birds

> -carcinogenic THM's in the product water

> -risk assessment

> -attracting heavy industry

> -etc

>

> I suggest you read this and post any comments to the group.

>

> Please load in any submissions to the yahoogroup that you or other

> groups have prepared on the same issue.

>

> Regards

>

> Michael Derry

> Western Australia

> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nodesalination/

>