The cost estimate – from transport through to maintenance of the site for 100,000 years - is also simply a guess.

I submit to the Inquiry that: (a) PFAS production and use be eliminated or severely restricted where no alternatives exist (b) During a transition away from PFAS chemicals that products and services carry PFAS warnings (similar to those used to deter smoking) (c) Any toxic PFAS waste dumps conform to Australia’s National Environmental Management Plan and that any such toxic waste dump is located sufficiently far away from residential areas, primary industries, water resources and sites of significance to Australian Indigenous communities.

On the 15th of December 2006, the Premier, the Hon Mike Rann MP, announced the Government’s intention to return the SA Water Depot at Thebarton to parkland, after SA Water staff vacate the site as a result of new facilities being built at Victoria Square, and to transform the site to an urban forest.

Some people would argue that oil shale could be dumped somewhere else, but considering the volume of it, I cannot imagine 60 metre high dumps of spent shale stretching for kilometres around the area.

This is a public document and it is available on the web site.

I submit to the Inquiry that: (a) PFAS production and use be eliminated or severely restricted where no alternatives exist (b) During a transition away from PFAS chemicals that products and services carry PFAS warnings (similar to those used to deter smoking) (c) Any toxic PFAS waste dumps conform to Australia’s National Environmental Management Plan and that any such toxic waste dump is located sufficiently far away from residential areas, primary industries, water resources and sites of significance to Australian Indigenous communities.

The data should be available through a government web site. 32.

When speaking to this motion, the Honourable Member described historical contaminated sites in South Australia, referring to the "unfortunate past practice 5 of owners of sites, including dumps, service stations, foundries, tanneries and factories.

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We were sitting at the front in the sun having some lunch and somebody inside pushed the duress and you could hear the screaming, so it was a legit one.