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Push to establish own site to monitor quality of air locally

CANTERBURY Bankstown needs its own air monitoring site, says Cr Rachelle Harika.

She said the council received a letter from the Parliamentary Secretary for the Environment and Veterans in April this year, in which he outlined that the needs of our city will be considered in a future review of Sydney’s Air Quality Monitoring Network, but unfortunately the letter is silent on when such a review will take place.
She said that more recently, the responsible Minister, Matt Kean MP, appeared in a video alongside Lord Mayor Clover Moore and a new air quality monitoring station in the Sydney CBD in which “the Minister rightly points out that every single citizen in NSW has the right to access clean air in NSW, but unfortunately his Government’s actions haven’t backed up his words”.
The council will now write to the Minister for Energy and Environment calling for the installation of an air quality monitoring site in the Canterbury-Bankstown LGA.