Our Goal: The BCC Mt Coot-tha Quarry (MCQ) must fully comply
with the ANZEC
and QLD EHP/DES
and QLD TMR maximum blast vibrations.
The MCQ has never complied with its existing EA Schedule-F and defined Best Practice.
1. Five Operational Noise Conditions - never measured - Local Residents Measurements Ignored.
2. Maximum blast vibrations "in or on any noise sensitive area" - Never Measured - Local Residents Measurements Ignored.
3. Blast Vibrations Measured using inferior non-standard non-admissable methods.
4. QLD TMR published AS2187 Historic Building and Monument Maximums - Totallly Ignored.
5. Secret closer stronger vibrations never publicised.
The BCC Mt Coot-tha Quarry-Dominated Tourist Precinct is a Huge Ecological, Economic & Tourism disaster.
Our Purpose: To document the thousands of hours of work done over the past 20 years, by the Mt Coot-tha Local Residents, in their battle against the BCC owned and operated Mt Coot-tha Quarry (MCQ) Blast Vibration, Noise, Dust & Regular Violations of their Environmental Authority.
Our Theme: The Lord Mayor and BCC Civic Council are answerable to the People of Brisbane, for creating a massive ugly hole in the middle of a world class accessible and valuable tourism precinct, when the environmental destruction will last for decades, plus the rehabilitation costs & lost financial benefit vastly exceeds the amount saved by extending their own quarry mine life.
Our Belief: Brisbane would have been $Billions better off, if the MCQ was rehabilitated to tourism in 2003 (after ICB completion), as promised.
Our Estimated Quarry Rehab Costs: $300mil if done in 2018,
$500mil if delayed until 3032.
By 2032, the difference between the Eden Project GVA Financial
Benefit the the Mt Coot-tha Quarry Rehabilitation Debt will be $6
Billion ($6,000 Millon).
By comparison the BCC Budget is $3.15 Billion and the Queensland
Budget is $12 Billion
The Employment:
Eden Project Anglesea Australia = 1300 new jobs (includes 700
construction & 500 ongoing).
Gardens BC Report shows CA$300 Million Annual Revenue & 10,000 Annual Jobs.
Brisbane and the Rehabilitated Mt Coot-tha Quarry Tourism Precinct, should create strong valuable employment and revenue.
The Truth: Since 2001, Eden Project Cornwall has made
more than double the value of all gravel ever mined at Mt
Coot-tha.
The Real Gold Mine at Mt Coot-tha is the Tourism.
By the scheduled MCQ close date of 2032, the Estimated Difference
between the Eden Project Cornwall GVA Income and the MCQ
Rehabilitation Debt will be $6 Billion.
Following on from discussions with the EDO and QLD
Ombudsman, the Local Residents (LR) created a formal
complaint to the DES Director General regarding the BCC Mt
Coot-tha Quarry.
This report was ignored by the BCC and LM Quirk.
The Local Resident
Authors were then "DISENGAGED" from the Lord
Mayor's Office.
So they will no longer acknowledge that we exist.
After the LR completed their series of expensive Internal
Home Blast Vibrations, a posted letter arrived from DES Mr
Karle (MKL).
This document claims that our measurements are invalid
and that the non-compulsory purely-advisory statements
in the (redacted) AS2187.2 Appendix-J can be used to
cancel the Environmental Authority Schedule-F
conditions, when the Appendix primary statement
specifically prevents this activity.