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A petition containing 2,087 signatures against Straits Resources’ proposal
was tabled in State Parliament by Vincent Catania on Wednesday
3 December 2008. These signatures were gathered prior to an
unequivocal rejection of the project by the Environmental
Protection Authority (EPA Report 1295, dated 23 July 2008).
The petition is on the back of 4,504 letters of concern written
to the EPA, the former Carpenter government and the Barnett
government. These letters were submitted by Australians across
the nation and by concerned people from as far away as the
United Kingdom, Germany, the United States, Canada, Sweden,
Norway, France, Spain, Israel and Italy.
Representatives of the Halt the Salt Alliance held a press
conference on the steps of Parliament House an hour before
the petition was tabled. |
The petition was presented to Vincent Catania
by Piers Verstegen
on behalf of the Alliance.
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