10th September 2024, 12:50pm
Legislative Council of Victoria, Melbourne
David ETTERSHANK (Western Metropolitan):
My constituency question is to the Minister for WorkSafe and the TAC. My constituent is a Sunshine West resident. During the recent Derrimut fires she was, like all her neighbours, incredibly distressed to see plumes of toxic smoke drifting towards her home less than 1200 metres away from the fire. The fact is that few locals know where toxic chemicals are stored until they explode, but they do know that most of Victoria’s toxic chemicals are parked somewhere in the west.
My constituent wants an independent contamination taskforce established to look into how chemicals are stored and how state services respond to dangerous chemical fires that contaminate the air and pollute the waterways of the west. She asks: when will the government set up a contamination taskforce?
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