R.A.P.S. - Residents Against Polluting Stacks

Inquiry into the M5 East Ventilation Stack (2001)

NSW Legislative Council (Upper House) General Purpose Standing Committee No. 5

Day 2 Public Hearing, Thursday 03 May 2001

Various Videos from the Inquiry

GPSCNo5's homepage for Inquiry into the M5 East Ventilation Stack (2001) including Terms of Reference, Transcripts, etc.
02May2001 RAPS Inc. Media Release "Stack Will Exceed Air Pollution Goals"
03May2001 RAPS Inc. Media Release "A Mere $13 Million Would Filter the Stack"
01May2001 Inquiry Day 1, other Videos and Documents

Videos

Streaming videos encoded with Windows Media.

Large videos will be progressively be broken down into smaller chunks (the unedited longer versions have been uploaded to publish the information as early as possible).

RAPS (Inc.) - Residents Against Polluting Stacks

Charles Briers - Introduction 28.8kbps video (Short section after swearing in; Past 2m14s mark, please use links below for individual speeches)
Mark Curran RE: Standards 28.8kbps video (11m32s)
Peter Siapos RE: Summary since 1999 Inquiry 28.8kbps video (10m01s)
Video compilation 56kbps video or 28.8kbps video (8m40s)
Giselle Mawer RE: International Tunnel Ventilation Workshop 2000 28.8kbps video (16m10s)
Judi Rossi RE: Department of Health (part 1 of 2) 28.8kbps video (4m16s) (start and end of recording disrupted)
Judi Rossi RE: Department of Health (part 2 of 2) plus Q&A of RAPS (Inc.) speakers, also including Ricc Rossi 28.8kbps video (45m21s)
RAPS Inc. Submission to the Inquiry: _{(NB: These PDF documents
have the same content as the actual submission, though some minor changes
to aesthetics. Some content may have shifted to an adjacent page).}

PDF document, (1.6MB). Recommended for smaller file size. For screen viewing. Low quality graphics, even for screen viewing.
PDF document, (2.6MB). Medium quality graphics. Improved graphics for viewing and printing.
PDF document, (4.0MB). Better quality graphics. Recommended for printing and higher quality viewing, though large file size.

Dr Peter Best, Katestone Scientific

Presentation 28.8kbps video (16m53s)
Q&A 28.8kbps video (14m47s)
Executive Summary to Katestone Scientific Report (28kB)
Katestone Scientific Report (138kB)

Dr Best is a Brisbane based air quality modeler. Katestone Scientific have been called on to give advice on many aspects of pollution impacts, including small scale modelling of industrial air pollutants and in the investigation of the health impacts of pollution. He was commissioned by RAPS to give advice, independent of the RTA, on the likely impacts of pollution coming from the stack. It was his opinion that many of the likely impacts of pollutants had been underestimated.

Lane Cove Tunnel Action Group

Click for pictures comparing this lung of a Sydney city resident with a healthy rural resident...

Professor Ray Kearney and June Hefferan. June Hefferan speaking on the International Tunnel Ventilation Workshop 2000, and Professor Kearney speaking on health effects of unfiltered road tunnel emissions.

Presentation (Part 1 of 2) 28.8kbps video (11m11s)
Presentation (Part 2 of 2) 28.8kbps video (followed by Howden / Filtrontec)
Executive Summary from Lane Cove Tunnel Action Group submission to the Inqury (Microsoft Word document, 133kB)
Pictures of air pollution effects on the lung

Howden Australia (in assoc with) Filtrontec Germany

Presentation (Part 1 of 2) 28.8kbps video follows Lane Cove Tunnel Action Group (45m34s)
Presentation (Part 2 of 2) 28.8kbps video (followed by CTA - Norway)

Hans Anderl, CTA - Norway

Presentation 28.8kbps video follows Howden / Filtrontec (45m32s). Hearing ended shortly after end of this video
Electrostatic Precipitator in action against smoke from fire test for Eckeberg Tunnel, Norway 56kbps video or 28.8kbps video (7m31s). Accompanied CTA - Norway submission.

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