The MCQ must fully comply
with the ANZEC
and QLD EHP/DES
and QLD TMR maximum blasting seismic levels.
- The MCQ has never complied with its existing Environmental Authority SCHEDULE-F
- Five Critical Environmental Authority Operational Noise Conditions - Never Measured & Totally Ignored.
- Extremely Strong local residents private home seismic measurements - Totally Ignored.
Our Goals:
1. BCC MCQ should immediately and fully comply with their DA Schedule-F Noise Sensitive Area Blast Vibration & Noise Monitoring .
2. BCC MCQ Rehabilitation Planning should commence immediately with rehabilitation completed by 2025.
3. MCLR homes, plus all psychological damage and harm, should be assessed by fully independent qualified assessors, with compensation and remediation provided as assessed.
4. BCC MCQ should immediately advise the estimated MCQ Rehabilitation costs and add this to their accounting ledgers.
5. MCLR members should be fully compensated for their dedicated time, blast damage and psychological damage, this includes the late John Higgins family.
The BCC Mt Coot-tha Quarry (MCQ) Dominated Tourist Precinct is a Huge Ecological, Economic & Tourism disaster.
Our Purpose: To document the many thousands of hours of forced work done over the past 20 years, including 6 Whistle-Blower events, 10 RTI requests. All done 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: BCC Lord Mayor Schrinner and BCC CEO Mr Jensen 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 greatly exceeds the much smaller value created by blasting more gravel.
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 Rehabilitation Costs: $400mil if done in 2025, or $500mil if completed in 3032.
By 2032, we believe that the difference between the Eden Project GVA Financial Benefit
and the Mt Coot-tha Quarry Rehabilitation Debt, will be $6 Billion ($6,000 Millon).
This lost income amount greatly exceeds the BCC Annual Budget (approx $4 Billion).
UQ Seismometer shows how the Mt Coot-tha Quarry Seismic Blast Hits Innocent Local Residents Homes.
BCC "CALLOUS BEHAVIOUR":
BCC Councillor Judy Magub December 2002 Report.
Mt Coot-tha Quarry Output secretly increased to a massive 750,000 tonnes per year, with consequential severe residential and wildlife health hazards.
Also during the 2002 Christmas Holiday Period the BCC secretly increased the Quarry Life until 2032 - with Zero Public Consultation .
It was these 2002 and 2003 incidents which demonstrated very clearly that the BCC could never be trusted, to even slightly preserve the personal and home building health of the local residents.
Whilst this was 20+ years ago, it clearly marked a total end of the Brisbane Ratepayer trust relationship with the BCC and all their gross lies.
The residents health, their home structural integrity plus the increasingly untruthful BCC statements, got much worse year over year.
The Rehabilitated Quarry 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.