{"id":897,"date":"2018-12-03T06:41:17","date_gmt":"2018-12-03T06:41:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=897"},"modified":"2018-12-03T06:41:17","modified_gmt":"2018-12-03T06:41:17","slug":"greens-welcome-senate-report-into-pfas-contamination-government-must-act-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2018\/12\/03\/greens-welcome-senate-report-into-pfas-contamination-government-must-act-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Greens Welcome Senate Report Into PFAS Contamination – Government Must Act Now"},"content":{"rendered":"

Australian Greens Senator for NSW, Dr Mehreen Faruqi, has called on the Federal Government to urgently implement the recommendations\u00a0 of the Senate ‘Inquiry into the management of PFAs contamination in and around Defence bases\u2019\u00a0, which has called for compensation and a new\u00a0Coordinator-General to coordinate the national response to the PFAS contamination issue.
\nSenator Faruqi was the Greens representative on the inquiry. The report can be found\u00a0here<\/a>.
\nSenator Faruqi said: “The Australian Greens\u00a0welcome this report and although much more remains to be done, it is a really important step to resolving the long running and damaging issue of PFAS contamination.\u00a0I want to thank and acknowledge community members across the country for their continued advocacy for the protection of our environment, the scarce water resources we have in Australia and the health of our people and communities.
\n“If the government cares about the community, if they care about our environment, they should urgently accept the recommendations of the report. They don\u2019t have to wait for months to provide a response.
\n“The community has waited long enough. Communities have suffered enough. It\u2019s time to take concrete action to help them. And it\u2019s time concrete action is taken now.
\n“It should not have taken years of community campaigning for Defence to be accountable for the contamination it had created.\u00a0The failure of Defence to take responsibility for this matter may have had significant health and social implications for communities.\u00a0Consistent with the \u2018polluter pays\u2019 principle, Defence has an obligation for all costs associated with testing, containment, remediation, as well as compensation of affected people.
\n“It is worth remembering that this issue is not restricted to Defence properties. Other Federal Government properties as well as properties formerly owned by the Federal Government, such as airfields and former defence sites should be fully investigated by the Commonwealth Government and the same measures applied.
\n“I strongly encourage the Commonwealth Government to urgently develop a buyback program for properties where contamination is significant. The reality is that the effects of PFAS contamination are not known yet and we know that some properties will be significantly affected. \u00a0There are no options but for compensation to include buyback,” she concluded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Australian Greens Senator for NSW, Dr Mehreen Faruqi, has called on the Federal Government to urgently implement the recommendations\u00a0 of the Senate ‘Inquiry into the management of PFAs contamination in and around Defence bases\u2019\u00a0, which has called for compensation and a new\u00a0Coordinator-General to coordinate the national response to the PFAS contamination issue. Senator Faruqi was … Continue reading “Greens Welcome Senate Report Into PFAS Contamination – Government Must Act Now”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aussie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/897\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}