“After 20 years of collaboration, hard work and advocacy, the Clean Ocean campaign to eliminate mixing zones around Australia has had another fantastic win, this time at Warrnambool,” said Mr Morehead, lawyer for the Foundation. “This historic accomplishment is the result of so many people who love our oceans: members of the Federal, State and Local governments who span the country and political spectrum, members of the various Water Authorities and Environment Protection agencies, stakeholders in industry and environmental groups, and everyday Australians. The Warrnambool treatment plant upgrade will improve Australia’s ability to monitor and clean up industrial scale trade and domestic sewage waste, advance cooperation with industries responsible for the majority of toxic nutrients and pollution entering the oceans, and explore innovative ways to manage and reuse water in an increasingly dry continent.”
“The elimination of coastal mixing zones will be particularly important for inshore State fisheries and for our exclusive economic zone in the 12 nautical-mile boundary of Australia's territorial waters. Australia has the third-largest exclusive economic zone on the planet, behind the United States and France, with our total area of 8,148,250 square kilometres (3,146,060 square miles), which well exceeds our land territory.”
“I commend Wannon Water and their legal team for ensuring the passage of this VCAT review into law, and I also thank my client Clean Ocean Foundation and its executive team of Peter Smith and John Gemmill for being such strong science-based partners and champions for our oceans, important aboriginal cultural and dreaming regions, fisheries, wildlife and coastal communities.”
“I am thrilled to witness the beginnings of this monumental treatment plant upgrade embodying Australian leadership and global engagement. Mixing zone pollution in our world’s oceans is a global problem with dramatic and enduring implications for our livelihoods and well-being. As a landmark bipartisan environmental victory, the coming Warrnambool treatment plant upgrade represents a stepping stone toward greater collaboration and progress in our efforts to preserve a most vital resource that sustains life today and will provide for generations to come.”
-Michael Moorhead
“The elimination of coastal mixing zones will be particularly important for inshore State fisheries and for our exclusive economic zone in the 12 nautical-mile boundary of Australia's territorial waters. Australia has the third-largest exclusive economic zone on the planet, behind the United States and France, with our total area of 8,148,250 square kilometres (3,146,060 square miles), which well exceeds our land territory.”
“I commend Wannon Water and their legal team for ensuring the passage of this VCAT review into law, and I also thank my client Clean Ocean Foundation and its executive team of Peter Smith and John Gemmill for being such strong science-based partners and champions for our oceans, important aboriginal cultural and dreaming regions, fisheries, wildlife and coastal communities.”
“I am thrilled to witness the beginnings of this monumental treatment plant upgrade embodying Australian leadership and global engagement. Mixing zone pollution in our world’s oceans is a global problem with dramatic and enduring implications for our livelihoods and well-being. As a landmark bipartisan environmental victory, the coming Warrnambool treatment plant upgrade represents a stepping stone toward greater collaboration and progress in our efforts to preserve a most vital resource that sustains life today and will provide for generations to come.”
-Michael Moorhead
