Thursday 26 June 2008

A message for Wesfarmers

Care about Wesfarmers? How much does Wesfarmers care about You?
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As this story reports poor old Wesfarmers is losing $20 million a month because of the Gas Crisis.

But, because many of their plants are shutdown we are able to sleep at night for a change!

Wesfarmers has 3 major plants in Kwinana that for many years have been in breach of the noise regulations

Wesfarmers LPG
Wesfarmers Air Liquid’e
Wesfarmers CSBP and AGR

Along with the noise problem are the air emissions, in particular CSBP’s Ammonium Nitrate/Ammonium Chloride plume which they claim is visible because of the cold weather, I have seen this plume for over 30 years and it is not normal for this time of year and I strongly suggest that either CSBP’s filter system is not functioning properly or they are overloading the filter system. Also I do not believe the claim by this company that breathing fine particulates from this plume is harmless.

Just how much does Wesfarmers care about the people its operations in Kwinana affect… Zilch I would say.
So how can Wesfarmers make this claim: "Wesfarmers values highly its reputation as a responsible corporate citizen"? "For further information on our commitment to the community and the environment see these Community, Environment".

So Wesfarmers and its shareholders - I care as much about Wesfarmers losing $20 million a month as Wesfarmers cares about me and others in this community impacted and concerned by Wesfarmers operations.

1 comment:

Dave said...

I'm finding it hard to sympathise with Wesfarmers...