Was the Kurnell community informed of the desalination plant?
No. The announcement has taken everyone by surprise. There has been no consultation with either council or the local community. • Will the plants construction be easy on the environment? No. The State Government has not yet decided how big the plant will be, yet any size plant would guarantee the destruction of the sites vegetation. The construction of a plant would result in significant loss to endangered ecological communities and the destruction of potential aboriginal archaeological sites. Sutherland Shire Council has recently spent $200,000 saving this environment from being destroyed. A desalination plant will ruin that good work. • Is there any mention that the desalination pipes with travel through the Botany Bay National Park? No. But thats the only way they can go. Cutting through the sandstone with tunnelling, the pipes may be ten times larger than those used by the treatment plant. • Has any traffic impact statement been released? No. No study addressing the traffic needs o
