Green and Clean or Dirty Brown

Over the past couple of weeks our local media has published Kwinana Industry's paid advertisements, that claim Kwinana Industry “works hard to keep Green and Clean”.

We challenged industry and the claim has since changed to "working hard to become Green and Clean". Trouble is this statement is still false.

Kwinana Industry is far from ‘Green and Clean’ – more like Dirty Brown.

These advertisements were made to look like media articles, with no stipulation stating they were indeed advertisements. There should be a law against this type of advertising; surely it is false advertising?

Why are our authorities allowing Kwinana Industry to mislead the local community?

It is likely that Kwinana Industry will never be ‘Green and Clean’ as this is against the nature of the industry on the Kwinana Strip such as chemical, mining and refining industries.

It seems Kwinana industry is playing on words to mislead the local community, some examples are: the noise report that claims the overall level of regulated noise has reduced. I attended a noise reference group meeting where Industry and the Government attempted to have that group validate that report, however when questioned, the author of the report and a DEC noise expert admitted that the report (which was modelling) could not be validated because of lack of actual noise monitoring to verify the modelling. Simular issues with industries claims on air quality can be proven.

This is just another example that the spin from Kwinana Industry is totally out of control to the extent that Kwinana Industry is it seems in my view, attempting to mislead the local community.