Port Botany
On 29 April 1770, Botany Bay was the site of James Cook’s first landing of HMS Endeavour on the continent of Australia.
Construction of Port Botany began in 1971 and opened in December 1979. The port is located less than 10km from the Sydney CBD, adjacent the largest airport in Australia and its operations impact surrounding communities which were established in the 1800s. The once pristene aquatic environment of north Botany Bay is now unrecognisable as the Port expansion nears completion.
Beach erosion, loss of migratory bird habitat and poor water quality are some of the environmental challenges facing Botany Bay. In addition there are significant noise, traffic and pollution impacts on local suburbs in three local Councils (Randwick, Botany Bay, and Rockdale), including:
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The following details a relatively short history of developments in this area with regard to Port Botany impacts. This is not an exhaustive list.
NOISE
- 06/03/11 Does noise from Port Botany impact on you?
- 09/04/11 Webpost A noise to wake the dead
- 01/05/11 Submission to Model Work Health and Safety Regulations
- 04/05/11 Submission to National Land Freight Strategy
- 08/05/11 Webpost Alarmed by alerts – listen on YouTube
- 22/05/11 Webpost Harbour Control now at Port Botany
- 23/08/11 Webpost How far should the noise of a ‘beeper’ alarm travel
- 25/08/11 Southern Courier Shut the beep up!
- 11/09/11 Webpost The community comments on Southern Courier article
- 26/09/11 Southern Courier Stop stall in Port noise “Sydney Ports will investigate alternative reverse alarms and raise the residents’ request with the stevedoring operators and the container parks in the Port Botany industrial precinct,” he said. “Sydney Ports will provide an update to Port Botany Neighbourhood Liaison Group.”
- 04/10/11 Response from Work Cover Re: Work Safe submission
“Employers can use other (beeper alternatives) means of warning at the same or better level of control.”
TRUCKS AND TRAFFIC – details here
AIR POLLUTION
- 26/09/11 Souther Courier Final report received by OEH on Port Botany dust
PRIVATISATION
- 07/09/11 Southern Courier MUA condemns O’Farrells Port Botany firesale
- 07/09/11 Southern Courier Privatisation will lead to more trucks, Mayor says
- 07/09/11 Webpost O’Farrell to privatise the Ports
- 12/09/11 Southern Courier Port Botany plan a ‘disaster’ (read the comments)
- 05/10/11 Souther Courier Botany Mayor Hoenig: private port expansion must be kept in check “Cr Hoenig said the existing consent conditions imposed on the Sydney Ports Corportation must be “rigorously applied” to the propsed leases of any private port operators.”
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