Metal trade stacks at Yeronga TAFE Park Road campus

Eligibility - Queensland residents
Principal Petitioner:
C Crowther
41 Park Road
YERONGA QLD 4104
Total Signatures - 45
Sponsoring Member: Hon Kev Lingard MP
Posting Date: 2/8/2005
Closing Date: 9/8/2005
Tabled Date: 10/8/2005
Responded By: Referred Minister
TO: The Honourable the Speaker and Members of the Legislative Assembly of Queensland

The petition of residents of the State of Queensland draws the attention of the House to the facts that the Planning and
Environment Court in February 2003 ordered Yeronga TAFE to relocate any outlet for metal trade odours further than 100
metres from Park Road by 1 July 2005. Claire Crowther, unrepresented by a lawyer, won a precedent environmental law
case no. 2377 of 2002 Planning and Environment Court, Brisbane. Yeronga residents and other parties exposed to the
noxious odours gave evidence in court. The Queensland Government is the first government to commit three offences
against an Environment Protection Act. The State Government claims metal trade activities have been relocated from the
Park Road workshops. Metal trade students continue to use these workshops. Metal trade machinery and conduits
remain in these workshops. Odour and metal particulates continue to impact health and amenity west of Park Road. Two
metal trade stack outlets were dismantled in 2004. Nine metal trade stack outlets that likewise vented harmful fumes
remain within 100 metres of Park Road.

Your petitioners, therefore, request the House to immediately dismantle the remaining nine metal trade stacks at Yeronga
TAFE’s Park Road campus in order to prevent any further harmful emissions contaminating the surrounding residential
and schools area and prevent further offences committed by the State of Queensland.

Metal trade stacks at Yeronga TAFE Park Road campus: Requesting
the House to immediately dismantle the remaining nine metal trade
stacks at Yeronga TAFE’s Park Road campus in order to prevent any
further harmful emissions