Tuesday, June 28, 2011

A Message for Visitors to Port Campbell and the Twelve Apostles

Dear Visitors to Port Campbell and the Twelve Apostles, the following is some information your Lonely Planet guide book can't explain. If you were kept awake by a constant roar through the night of 28 and 29 June there is a simple, though toxic, explanation. The gas plants that were built near the beautiful Great Ocean Road and the Twelve Apostles always roar on days when there is no wind and the skies are blue. For those who were also in Port Campbell Tuesday morning this constant droning might now be a perfect addition to the thunderous explosions that came from one of the gas plants in the early hours of Tuesday.

Port Campbell's Twelve Apostles are visited by some 2million people a year. It makes perfect sense, doesn't it, that gas plants have been built near the town?

sincerley, Mr Rogered

Monday, June 27, 2011

Gas Plant Explosions

Tuesday 28 June

The Rogereds were woken by yet another explosion - a thunderous roar - of sound in the middle of this night. But it appears those at the gas plant weren't satisified with creating just one explosion. There was another - a sustained explosive roar - at around 7.30am.

An exploding gas plant reminds me of this gem of corporate responsibilty from a fella by the name of Rob duncason at Woodside. This is what he once wrote about the Rogered's experiencing noise:

From: ROB.DUNCANSON
When the Plant is operating normally and we are below our reference point this means 1) we are not the source of noise and 2) there is little we can do at the Plant to make things quieter."

Wonder how the gas companies will deflect the noise issues this morning?

Friday, June 3, 2011

Reply to the EPA and the Corangamite Shire

Mr and Mrs Rogered have had some extended correspondence with the EPA and the Corangamite Shire this week. Below is some of Mr Rogered’s email correspondence in regard to Mr and Mrs Rogered's decision to no longer follow the EPA's suggested protocols for reporting noise breaches.

Subject: RE: Gas plant noise
Date: Wed, 1 Jun 2011 14:02:56 +1000

Dear XXXXX, we have been following the EPA guidelines for some four years. Nothing has been achieved.

There has been no admission from anybody, not the EPA, nor the Corangamite shire, nor any of the gas plants, about our loss of amenity. Endless excuses based often on the grey area of the study of noise have been used to question our veracity and deflect responsibility.

We are tired of talk. Tired of inconclusive testing. We need somebody to suggest and implement tangible actions that will relieve the industrial pollution that inflicts our life.
We have long suggested the self-regulatory noise modelling procedures the gas plants employ are inaccurate. Have these ever been re-assessed?

When will there be some tangible action on the issue of noise that emanates from the Woodside cum origin Energy gas plant at Port Campbell? We are not confident it will be any time soon.

We have lost faith in the system. Four-wearing years can do that to a person