Hansard debates

Mrs McARTHUR (Western Victoria) (12:55): My constituency question is for the Minister for Transport Infrastructure. After the Minister for Energy, Environment and Climate Change refused to answer my question about the Environment Protection Authority’s 2017 submission to the West Gate Tunnel Project environment effects statement, which recommended that the project address the management, treatment and disposal of PFAS-contaminated material on groundwater and land, Maddingley Brown Coal has been flagged as a potential site for a toxic soil dump. It sits beside Parwan Creek, which flows into the Werribee River, which provides irrigation water for Bacchus Marsh and Werribee. Bacchus Marsh Grammar is within 500 metres of the site. I ask the minister to explain why the West Gate Tunnel Project went ahead without addressing the recommendation by the Environment Protection Authority which now could have disastrous consequences for the Bacchus Marsh community, the agricultural production in the area and the neighbouring households and schools?