How well did you sleep?

Noise Is Pollution

Imagine a neighbour of yours playing music ALL night, or working in their shed ALL night using an electric saw, while you are trying to sleep. What would be done about it? Well if you complained the Police would be around to 1 inform the person to stop producing the noise and 2 if the noise continued would be back to confiscate the equipment producing the noise and 3 if the noise continued said person would probably be arrested and charged, because the community has laws to protect them against excessive noise.

Yet some residents of Kwinana have to put up with illegal levels of noise all night and nothing whatsoever is done, because our authorities must protect industry at any cost...

Take last night for example at my front door the level of noise was around 68db most of the night, the legal limit is 35db. I also received other complaints from as far inland as Parmelia. But will anything be done?

Yes, Kwinana Industries have started another noise reference group to keep the issue buried while they do nothing for another few years, and then are likely to once again attempt to con so called community reps and our regulators into validating another noise modelling report that could not be validated because of lack of actual monitoring...

Yes, it likely that our Kwinana Council will continue to FALSELY claim that Kwinana Industry are exempt from the noise regulations just so they don't have to get involved when they know full well that Kwinanna industry are NOT exempt from the law.

Yes, it is likely that our DEC will continue to DO NOTHING about the ILLEGAL levels of noise that we are exposed to, they won't even monitor the noise because that would provide evidence that the noise problem existed.

Yes, our EPA will continue to approve new noisy industry and allow existing industry already in breach to expand and will continue to make the FALSE claim that this will not add to cumulative noise levels.

Yes the big corporate giants like Wesfarmers and BP will continue to breach noise regulations and just not care because they know they will be protected by those who are paid to protect us from them.

Now try and tell me that corruption does not exist in Kwinana - If this isn't corruption then what is?

I have blogged about this issue before after all this has been going on for over 10 years, so if you feel like a depressing read go here, here, here and here.

We want noise monitoring not modelling... We want action to reduce the impact of cumulative industrial noise on our lives... We want our authorities to stop protecting industry at any cost, and to enforce the laws designed to protect us... Why is this too much to ask?