NSW: Rural NSW waste facility to impact local area: court told

AAP General News (Australia)
12-12-2007
NSW: Rural NSW waste facility to impact local area: court told

A court hearing to determine the impact of a waste facility .. proposed for central-western
New South Wales .. continues in Sydney today.

In the Land and Environment Court yesterday .. lawyers debated the impact the Hub Regional
Resource Reprocessing Facility will have on local land .. in an estimated 40 years.

The joint landfill project of Orange City and Cabonne Councils was approved by Planning
Minister FRANK SARTOR in January.

The Hub Action Group has challenged the approval .. saying the facility will increase
traffic and damage agricultural land.

TIM ROBERTSON SC .. for Orange City Council .. has argued the land is already unviable
for cultivating crops .. according to a report prepared on behalf of all parties.

But the report's authors .. agricultural experts BASIL BALDWIN and RICHARD IVEY ..

have denied that claim.

Mr IVEY says the fact the site hasn't been used for crop growing for years .. doesn't
reflect on its ability to do so.

AAP RTV cj/hn/tm/wf/crh

KEYWORD: HUB (SYDNEY)

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