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Dredging and Port Construction - Magazine - World News 04 Mar 2010

Dredging A Health Threat?

Dredging A Health Threat?


A row’s broken out in Fremantle over dredging – the port says it’s safe, but Greens MP Adele Carles does not agree…

Carles wants dredging of Fremantle Harbour – part of a port expansion project at Rous Head – to be stopped and has called for a ruling by Western Australia’s health minister. “I want to see the Environment Protection Authority use its powers to call in this proposal so the full impact of the dredging on our interconnected waterways can be assessed,” she said, expressing concern that poisonous ...