Mangrove Mountain residents want an inquiry into the golf course that became a regional landfill site

By Joanne McCarthy
August 7 2017 - 4:00pm
Mangrove Mountain residents ask how approval for 80,000 cubic metres of waste became 800,000 cubic metres.

PREMIER Gladys Berejiklian has been asked to establish a commission of inquiry into how the state’s environment watchdog licensed the dumping of 500,000 tonnes of waste at a Mangrove Mountain golf course for nearly a decade, and later backed the environmentally sensitive site as a regional landfill facility to take another 1.3 million cubic metres of waste.

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