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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 2000 Week 9 Hansard (5 September) . . Page.. 2873 ..

MS CARNELL: Mr Speaker, as I said last week, the contract with SOCOG requires us to pick up the tab for delivering a stadium that is to FIFA and SOCOG requirements. There are no costings on the new turf at this stage. As I said last week, the contract with the new turf supplier is with SOCOG, not with the ACT government.

I would like to pick up on the comment made in asking this question about how it was the government that had made statements about StrathAyr. Mr Speaker, you may remember the comments and statements that were made by those opposite about tropical plants being brought in, having a serious go at StrathAyr and the grass that they brought from Queensland.

Mr Speaker, the grass that was laid by StrathAyr was grown by StrathAyr's contractors. They undertook to deliver a grass surface to the standard required. However you look at it, that was not done. I think that it is extraordinarily sad, Mr Speaker. The job of this side of the house will always be to ensure that we get on with the job and deliver a solution, and that is exactly what we have done. Even this morning-

Mr Quinlan: Help! Please stop!

MS CARNELL: Mr Speaker!

MR SPEAKER: You will not get a chance very shortly, Mr Quinlan.

MS CARNELL: Even this morning, it was good to see people from FIFA and people from SOCOG indicate that they were absolutely confident that the grass surface at Bruce Stadium would be appropriate for soccer next week.

Mitchell Incinerator and Lower Molonglo Sewerage Treatment Works-Emissions

MS TUCKER: My question is to the Minister for Urban Services, Mr Smyth, and relates to the information obtained by Greenpeace about emissions from the Totalcare incinerator at Mitchell and the ACTEW sewerage treatment facility at Lower Molonglo, as reported in the Canberra Times yesterday.

Minister, the ACTEW sewerage treatment facility operates an incinerator for burning sewerage sludge. While ACTEW is required under its environmental authorisation to monitor annually for dioxin emissions from this incinerator and provide the data to Environment ACT, FOI requests by Greenpeace of Environment ACT found no data pertaining to dioxin emissions from Lower Molonglo. This implies either that ACTEW has not done the testing required by the environmental authorisations or that ACTEW has not passed this information to Environment ACT.

Either ACTEW has breached its environmental authorisation or Environment ACT has not been keeping track of the information it should be receiving from ACTEW. Could you tell us which option is correct? If Environment ACT does have information on dioxin emissions from Lower Molonglo, could you table it, please?

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