New images emerge of Gladstone’s leaking bund wall and metals release data

Below is an email I received from a colleague and I thought I’d share.

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Another Gladstone suppressed report has emerged.

http://www.westernbasinportdevelopment.com.au/media/pdf/Field%20investigatio
ns%20of%20the%20bund%20wall%20seal%20August%202012.pdf

Images in Gladstone Ports Corp. own report show clearly where huge amounts of harbour turbidity were coming from-not.

 

According to Queensland and Commonwealth Govt, the effect of dredging and disposal did not contribute to fish/turtle/dolphin health issues.

Really?

 

Yet the EIS said the dredgematerial to be dumped inside the bund would be too toxic to dump offshore….yet it was inadvertently released into harbour anyway through leaks.

Note that this took place within the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park (Grahams Creek) and within the World Heritage Area- Gladstone Harbour.

 

Investigation of causes needs to be urgently re-opened so future developments have substantially greater protections put in place.

See table from EIS below which predicts metals release from resuspended sediments.

Note how closely metal releases resemble blood metal results of turtles sampled in July 2011. High arsenic, high cobalt.

http://www.westernbasinportdevelopment.com.au/media/pdf/Entox%20Report%20-%20Investigation%20of%20contaiminanr%20Levels%20in%20Green%20Turtles%20from%20Gladstone.pdf

 

Fish showed high aluminium in gills, crabs high copper/zinc in hepatopancreas

 

Yet we are to believe this was caused by a flood months earlier, and a few barra swimming downstream.

Anyone buying it?

 

Demand an full independent inquiry. Numerous developments are about to be signed off, with the confidence that nothing went wrong in Gladstone.