“Carrington is basically a dinosaur of the 1970s and there’s a recent coal terminal in Western Australia and the stock piles and load facilities are completely enclosed. We know that technology is commercially available,” he said.
Tighes Hill Community Group spokesperson, Charlotte McCabe agreed with Mr Alcorn.
“While in Newcastle we’re still debating weather or not dust is a health issue for us here, in other parts of the world they’ve already worked out that it is very serious health concern and they’ve developed new technology for covering stock piles and train [waggons] and loaders,” she said.
The Tighes Hill survey is a pilot for a wider survey early next year.
“We really hope we can see some good out comes from this survey,” Ms McCabe said.