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 Executive decision &/or obfuscation required

P666 off the Airports thread:

..ASA know it is an issue and also know that once the chemical is classified internationally as an 'airport environmental problem' the end result is that there will be many payouts, as some airports whose land has been slated for development by grubby investors, sharks, shonks and superannuation funds will be left holding a lemon as it will take a lot of money to clean up the 'dirty land'. ASA have been stashing away a war chest for some time now, worth hundreds of millions of dollars, in preparation for D-day.

Most airports have multiple contamination sites due to the relocation of fire fighting practise areas over the decades. But hey, compared to the shite buried beneath some airports, Bankstown as a prime example, the PFC's are probably relatively harmless in comparison! I would like to see the cancer rates among folks living around Bankstown and the George's River in 20 years time!..

A most profound post from one Gobbledock unit...

Well yesterday in both Houses of Parliament the subject of PFCs & the Williamtown RAAF base case was brought up several times...

First from the member for Paterson: Baldwin, Bob, MP

Next was in Senate Question time:- Defence: Water Supplies

And finally from Senator Rhiannon in the Adjournment: Rhiannon, Sen Lee

All three passages of Hansard mention the last Senate Estimates hearing - Hansard, QON etc can be viewed here:

Hansard Transcripts

21 October 2015 2015 Defence Portfolio (PDF 1072KB)
22 October 2015 Foreign Affairs and Trade Portfolio (PDF 1010KB)

Defence Portfolio

• Department of Defence
  

 
 From the QON index I would say that the Genie is well and truly out of the bottle, when it comes to PFC's entering the water table/waterways in and around Defence Airports..

In addition to the above I note that today in the Senate there were two 'Notice of Motion' given in respect of this issue.

First from Senator Rhiannon: NOM





{P2 comment: In regards to Bankstown Airport (i) is interesting } 

And then from Senator Conroy a call for a far more wide ranging inquiry : Add NOM 2 

Poor old Bankstown; thought it would at least have the tourism generated by it’s unique ‘glo-in-the-dark’ two headed ducks and cess pit theme parks; not to be.  Looks like many other airports are to have them as well and if Newcastle now have the fish and beaches to match, Bankstown will be forgotten, frogs and all.

What a mess Mr. Truss; the result of years of gouging and neglect, by all parties – now your responsibility.  Appointing David Fawcett to aviation may be your only way of dodging the large silver bullet of blame; think on, it’s a winner.  DF does the work and aviation crawls out of the cess and slurry it’s dying in, you get the credit for having the brains to bring in a hired gun, to sort it all out for you.  Brilliant, and there is no way it can backfire,; it’s such a ducking mess now that no one from my aging Grandmamma, to the office cat could fail to improve the disastrous situation that exists.

Bring in Fawcett, plead with Forsyth to help him for a twelve month, step back and accept the kudos. Piece of cake.

Monitoring is as you well know – a cop out.  Another hand crafted excuse for doing SFA.  The excuse of choice used by three of the most useless, incompetent, greedy, deceitful aviation agencies on the face of this long suffering planet.

Larry Pickering -  “Defence is a bureaucratic monolith responsible only to itself and poor little Abbott’s mate, Kevin Andrews, was one of many who were in the process of discovering their own Ministerial impotence when Turnbull presented the chortling chiefs with the cuddly Marise."

Reword as appropriate then consider the ‘military’ origins and mind set of CASA – does history keep repeating?  You bet it does – in Spades, redoubled..

“Safe reality checks for all”.

Toot toot.