Urban Sustainability
The environmental footprint of a city is enormous - many times bigger than its physical size. Cities are a drain on resources, they create pollution which extends over vast areas, and without careful management they degrade and often destroy biodiversity.
City residents are entitled to a healthy environment in which to live. TEC is campaigning for sustainable cities with clean air, improved public transport, protected parklands and bushland, sustainable water use, and binding environmental principles on developers.
Send Orica back to pollution control school
Saturday, 17 December 2011 08:17
The latest leak from Orica is a symptom of a company stuck in nineteenth century factory culture where pollution and leaks were normal practice, TEC said today.
POLLIES MOVE ON LAX POLLUTION LAWS
Wednesday, 05 October 2011 16:04
The community has a right to know when instances of industrial pollution present a threat to public health, said Total Environment Centre (TEC) today, in response to an independent report on the Orica pollution incident that was presented to the NSW cabinet yesterday.
NSW Pollution Crisis Hidden
Monday, 03 October 2011 07:07
With the NSW Cabinet due to consider the independent report on the Orica pollution incident this week, Total Environment Centre is calling for urgent and comprehensive reform of the state’s pollution control system, after reviewing a range of compliance audits which revealed that incidents of environmental harm are going unreported across industry sectors. Cumulative pollution loads on local people and the environment are also unknown.
Latest Orica leak shows a pollution control system in crisis
Wednesday, 28 September 2011 07:39
The release of toxic mercury vapour from the Orica Botany plant is another example of the state's pollution control system being in crisis, Total Environment Centre said today.Read more: Latest Orica leak shows a pollution control system in crisis
How to stop more Oricas
Sunday, 21 August 2011 10:20
In the wake of the Orica pollution incidents, special legislation will be needed to reform pollution control licences so that industry is required to expeditiously inform government and the community about pollution incidents, Total Environment Centre said today.More Articles...
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