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MPNEWS (1300 676 397) or email: team@mpnews.com.au www.mpnews.com.au Lessons in nature: Pupils
from Rye, Sorrento, Boneo and Our Lady of Fatima primary schools were among 120 children at last week’s Kids Teaching Kids event at Point Nepean. Among pupils attending were Layla, Brooke, Gabby, Noah, Kade, Charlie, Boronica, Oskar, Natlie and Charlotte. See story Page 3. Picture: Yanni
Quarry tip refused by EPA By Mike Hast THE Environment Protection Authority has knocked back the application for a rubbish tip, or landfill, in the old Pioneer quarry on the Arthurs Seat escarpment at Dromana. On Friday morning the EPA said the
proposal did not comply with “threshold issues around groundwater, construction design and management”. The decision is a blow to tip proponent Peninsula Waste Management and its owner R E Ross Trust as well as Mornington Peninsula Region Waste Management Group of which Morning-
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ton Peninsula Shire is the sole member. The waste group earmarked the quarry as a potential tip site in the late 1990s. PWM wanted the old quarry on Boundary Rd for up to 150,000 tonnes of municipal waste a year for up to 20 years. Less than one-third of the waste would have come from the peninsula.
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The proposal generated massive opposition and the formation of a highpowered lobby group called Peninsula Preservation Group. It was formed soon after the plan became public in late January (“Arthurs Seat tip plan”, The News, 24/1/13) and members include successful business people, law-
yers, scientists, doctors and teachers. More than 20,000 peninsula residents and others had signed paper and electronic petitions objecting to the tip. Thousands had attended protest meetings, a rally in Dromana and an EPA conference in Mornington. Continued Page 9
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