Craig Kelly (Hughes, Liberal Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I rise to speak on a recent decision by the New South Wales Planning Assessment Commission on what they call the resource recovery facility at Moorebank. It is more accurate to call this a concrete crushing plant at Moorebank, which will crush half-a-million tonnes of bricks, asphalt and concrete close to a residential area.

This is a project that has a long and sordid history of dodgy rezonings and political cash handed to the Labor Party. The latest in this sordid affair is this appalling and atrocious decision by the New South Wales Planning Assessment Commission. The decision is simply devoid of logic and it simply ignores the evidence. The decision lacks a fundamental understanding of air pollution, especially particulate matter. The proponent's original proposal did not even consider, or have any information about, fine particulate matter. For that reason alone it should have been rejected by the Planning Assessment Commission. This is an absolute disgrace. We need to take air pollution seriously in Western Sydney. I will continue to stand with our local council and our local state member, Melanie Gibbons, and do everything we can to oppose this. This is an appalling decision by the New South Wales Planning Assessment Commission. They should be absolutely ashamed of themselves.