Haddad implicated in secrecy around smog stacks threat to Sydney residents, more on YouTube
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sharp
Topic: nsw govt
SAM editor has finally taught ourselves how to upload DVD (VOB file) to YouTube. It involves video conversion programme Super, downloaded for free from Majorgeeks.com, including working out preferred settings for YouTube upload easily found via google (eg say WMV file, which is also handy in the process for reduction in file size, 30 frames per second etc etc). Finally one must split any file longer than 10 minutes or longer than 100MB in size, via another free download programme Yamb found via google and a nervous download in terms of security integrity. Through all of this a 700MB file 14 minute file has become some 9 and 5 minute files of 78 and 44 MB file size respectively.
Here is our submission in the last 24 hours:
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This video from February 2007 shows background to plans of the NSW Government, Australia, to install a $5 billion truck tunnel via marginal seat of Marrickville to a vastly expanded Port Botany for gigantic new container ships. The film is about what is driving the tunnel/smog stacks project rather than the tunnel itself covered in more detail here:
1st March 2007
$5b secret road under Sydney
http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/nsw-act/b-secret-road-under-sydney/story-e6freuzi-1111113075104
A tunnel must have smog stacks which will pollute and kill Sydney citizens from air pollution well before their time. More detail here:
28 August 2009
"M5 East pollution harming asthmatics"
"POLLUTION levels in Sydney's M5 East tunnel are so high that healthy motorists who use it daily could develop respiratory problems within two years"
http://www.smh.com.au/national/m5-east-pollution-harming-asthmatics-20090827-f183.html
Botany Bay & Catchment Alliance (33 community groups) and local Green Party have been exposing this agenda for several years now, including BB&CA being a party to an official Commission of Inquiry. The CoI report urged minimising Port expansion but was kept secret prior to a sensitive Sept 2005 by-election in Marrickville by then Minister Frank Sartor via (then) Deputy Director of Planning Sam Haddad. The CoI report was released 3 weeks after that vote and ignored with maximalist project announced the same day.
This film reveals many of the arguments put to Commissioner Cleland who retired soon after his work was done. This secretive agenda for massively expensive truck tunnel/smog stacks is still affecting govt leadership dynamics in 2009 with local MP and Deputy Premier Carmel Tebbutt newly appointed health minister and tipped to take the top job before March 2011 general election. Will she sell out local voters, particularly the young, sick, elderly and democracy itself?
More at http://www.botanybay.info/
and
http://www.sydneyalternativemedia.com/blog
See part 2 also on Youtube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXbT9dl94Zg
Thanks for watching.
| | | Added: October 02, 2009, 02:50 AM
Time: 5:04
And here is the letter we refer to in the background signed by then Deputy Director of Planning Sam Haddad who also appeared last night in footage on ABC TV Stateline. We say this letter shows a very political agency on the part of Haddad for then Minister Frank Sartor and the NSW ALP given the sensitive timing of the Marrickville by election Sept 2005.
Posted by editor
at 10:37 AM NZT
Updated: Sunday, 4 October 2009 10:27 AM NZT
