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Groovy Booby Bus helps us keep abreast of our health STORY: PAGE 5 Greens raise central west environmental issues in NSW upper house By SHARON BONTHUYS LAST week Narromine and Trangie were mentioned in the NSW Legislative Council, the upper house of the NSW Parliament, when Greens member Sue Higginson MLC called for documents from several government departments, agencies and ministers pertaining to chemical overspraying and chemical drift. Under Standing Order 52, which is a call for papers, the Greens member requested all documents, including advice, briefi ngs, minutes of meetings, correspondence, pollution notifications and emails, relating to chemical overspraying and chemical drift between two departments, two agencies and two ministers with nine organisations, the Australian Pesticides and Veterinary Medicines Authority (APVMA), commercial industry and industry groups occurring between January 1, 2019 and October 1, 2022. “The purpose of this call for papers is to establish the facts about how this government is handling genuine community concerns about the destruction of vast swathes of vegetation in local and regional environments,” Ms Higginson said in the upper house on October 19. “There is a reason-based concern that the NSW government is not undertaking its regulatory role as it should.
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Trangie Caltex set to close in December By SHARON BONTHUYS TRANGIE’S only service station is set to close on December 4, leaving the town without a fuel facility until new arrangements are in place for another provider to take over the site. How long this may take is anyone’s guess. The Narromine Star has confi rmed with Ampol Limited that the Trangie Caltex is set to close permanently following the expiry of the existing lease. “Ampol will be closing its service station on Sunday, December 4, 2022, due to lease expiry. We would like to thank the community in Trangie for their support over the past several years,” a company spokesperson said in response to our enquiry. The situation has infuriated Narromine Shire Mayor, Cr Craig Davies, who has swung into action and escalated the matter to the highest levels within stakeholder UGL. He said another provider was waiting in the wings to take over the site but this could not happen until UGL and Ampol had resolved their issues. “The changeover in possession of a fuel station site initiates a remedial rehabilitation process,” said Cr Davies, who indicated the process to close
The Trangie Caltex outlet is set to close on December 4. PHOTOS: NARROMINE STAR. the service station was initiated two years ago. “How it can take two years is a question the bureaucracy of Transport for NSW are responsible for and is symptomatic of a bureaucracy that has been allowed to run amok
under this state government. “It is pretty appalling that bureaucrats have such little regard for what happens in rural and regional areas that these transactions can take so long. It highlights the growing divide between the polit-
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ical and bureaucratic classes and the rest of us on this side of the mountains, and the seeming lack of resolve to improve this woeful service level,” Cr Davies said.
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