Clean air for NSW consultation paper

Over 120 ships arrive at the White Bay cruise terminal per year. Each burns dirty, dangerous high sulphur fuel emitting harmful air pollutants into the surrounding neighbourhood and beyond.

Yet the Environmental Protection Agency’s Clean Air for NSW Consultation Paper fails to deal adequately with pollution from cruise ships at White Bay, and proposes no action to end it. This consultation paper will set the strategic objectives of the NSW government in relation to air quality.

The NSW Government needs to install shore to ship electric power at the White Bay cruise terminal. It’s the long term solution to ensure clean, healthy air for the community of Sydney.

Please fill in your name and address below to make a submission to the Environmental Protection Agency, telling them you want them to take real action to end pollution at White Bay:

To: EPA Air Policy unit

I note with disappointment that the Clean Air for NSW Consultation Paper does not make mention of the significant levels of toxic pollution emitted by cruise vessels burning sulphur fuel at the White Bay Cruise Terminal. This is a significant source of air pollution for the surrounding area, with residents reporting health issues including breathing difficulties and asthma.

The Consultation Paper also makes no mention of the lack of regulation of cruise ships burning high sulphur fuel while travelling through Sydney Harbour, despite the fact that it has 35 times higher levels of sulphur than the fuel they are required to use in Europe and 3,500 times the level required by Australian diesel cars.

I urge you to directly address  this significant air pollution issue, and to take action to protect residents both of the area around White Bay, and the broader Sydney Harbour, from the health risk posed by cruise ship pollution.

The only long term solution to address both noise and emissions is shore to ship power and we encourage the EPA to set the installation of this technology as a key goal to enhance air quality. 

Yours sincerely,

Who's signing

Karen Cook
Pamela Nilsson
Claire Weir
Michelle Fallon
Katie Doyle
Dinah Berlin
Emma Frater
Pamela Bruce
Julie Marlow
Jan Steven
Christine Kurpitz
Jennifer Burton
Deborah Heber
Wendy Kain
Jennifer Parkyn
Ian Wilkinson
Allen Blewitt
Trish Lane
Rob Vail
Sheldon Sowter
Dereka Ogden
John McGill
Marcus Peterson
Arthur McKerron
Nola Saillard
Frank Tulic
Gary Nicklin

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  • Karen Cook
    signed 2016-12-17 11:33:35 +1100
  • Pamela Nilsson
    signed 2016-12-17 11:03:35 +1100
  • Claire Weir
    signed 2016-12-17 10:02:59 +1100
  • Michelle Fallon
    posted about this on Facebook 2016-12-17 09:08:12 +1100
    Make a submission: Clean air for NSW Consultation Paper
  • Michelle Fallon
    signed 2016-12-17 09:07:39 +1100
  • Katie Doyle
    signed 2016-12-17 08:57:57 +1100
    Now we have the imminent threat of WestCONnex it is even more important to improve the levels of air pollution in Rozelle, which is already one of Sydney’s most polluted suburbs as recently reported in SMH.
  • Dinah Berlin
    signed 2016-12-17 08:32:49 +1100
    Our government acts like a traitor. In wartime traitors are shot.
  • Emma Frater
    signed 2016-12-17 08:22:06 +1100
  • Pamela Bruce
    signed 2016-12-17 08:19:41 +1100
  • Julie Marlow
    signed 2016-12-17 07:50:26 +1100
    Small particle and sulphur emissions and noise pollution from cruise ships are significant health risks for the people of White Bay and Sydney Harbour. They also pose potential risk to the wildlife in these areas. Measures must be taken to make the cruise industry as environmentally safe as possible. An additional and alarming concern is the government’s and tourist industry’s big effort to open up the ports of Newcastle and Port Kembla to cruise tourism without adequate risk assessment or monitor installation, let alone the regulation to reduce toxic emissions and noise that has long been sought by the residents of White Bay.
  • Jan Steven
    signed 2016-12-17 07:44:13 +1100
    This issue has been going on too long. We need action.
  • Christine Kurpitz
    posted about this on Facebook 2016-12-17 07:22:04 +1100
    Make a submission: Clean air for NSW Consultation Paper
  • Christine Kurpitz
    posted about this on Facebook 2016-12-17 07:21:43 +1100
    Make a submission: Clean air for NSW Consultation Paper
  • Christine Kurpitz
    signed 2016-12-17 07:21:23 +1100
  • Jennifer Burton
    signed 2016-12-17 07:17:42 +1100
    The smell at the moment is horrible. It must be stopped.
  • Deborah Heber
    signed 2016-12-17 06:53:28 +1100
  • Wendy Kain
    signed 2016-12-17 01:26:52 +1100
    The people and environment should be looked after – that’s part of the job. The ships can and should stay without causing such enormous detriment.
  • Jennifer Parkyn
    signed 2016-12-17 01:13:32 +1100
  • Ian Wilkinson
    signed 2016-12-17 01:12:13 +1100
  • Allen Blewitt
    signed 2016-12-16 23:53:40 +1100
    Allen Blewitt
  • Trish Lane
    signed 2016-12-16 23:04:49 +1100
  • Rob Vail
    signed 2016-12-16 22:15:50 +1100
    Why are we behind the rest of the first world?
  • Sheldon Sowter
    signed 2016-12-16 21:42:14 +1100
  • Dereka Ogden
    signed 2016-12-16 21:34:22 +1100
    Cruise ships are a scourge. They do not contribute much to local economies and they cause pollution.
  • John McGill
    signed 2016-12-16 21:00:06 +1100
  • Marcus Peterson
    signed 2016-12-16 20:48:13 +1100
  • Arthur McKerron
    signed 2016-12-16 20:27:34 +1100
  • Nola Saillard
    signed 2016-12-16 20:23:54 +1100
    I can hear the announcements from the ship in my kitchen.
  • Frank Tulic
    signed 2016-12-16 20:12:02 +1100
    When ships are in and burning fuel to run their generators, you can really smell the pollution, which is a real turn off to be near the water front.
  • Gary Nicklin
    signed 2016-12-16 20:08:59 +1100