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Marstel Coode Island Community Group Minutes February 2009
Marstel Community Group Minutes of the meeting: 09/02/2009 Held at Maribyrnong City Council Offices, Napier Street Footscray Attendees: Andrew Clifton (A.C) - Community Frank May (F.M) – Marstel Terminals Coode Island Ian Rice (I.R) – Marstel Terminals Coode Island Iris Carlin (I.C) – Marstel Terminals Joan Thomas (J.T) – Community Valerie Gemmell (V.G) – Community Michael Isaachsen (M.I) – Community Theo Pykoulas (T.P) – Maribyrnong City Council Betty Creighton – Minute Taker Apologies: Tim Gunning (T.G) – Marstel Terminals Jeff Hibbert (J.H) – Marstel Terminals David Barnes (D.B) – Marstel Terminals Coode Island ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Start time of the meeting: 5:55 pm . ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1. Welcome IR welcomed everyone, introduced Coode Island Operator Frank May and explained the night’s agenda. 2. Review of Actions from minutes of previous meeting (Nov 2008) Apologies from Jeff Hibbert , Marstel Terminals Engineering Manager, as he was unable to attend due to being in Queensland at Marstel’s Port Alma site.
3. Business Arising From Previous Minutes Student Accommodation T.P presented an electronic local map and showed the location of the proposed student accommodation (Cnr Napier and Whitehall Sts), enabling community members to gauge the distance from Marstel Terminals. Caretaker Accommodation – Aston Street Electronic map used again to gauge distance from Ashton St to both Marstel Terminals and Terminals Pty Ltd. It is understood that the planning application will be heard at VCAT in late February. 4. Environmental Improvement Plan. Action Plan Items for updating: 1.1 Previous Completion Date: Mar 08 Completion Date: due Mar 09 1.2 Previous Completion Date: Sept 08 Completion Date: due Mar – Apr 09 1.3 Previous Completion Date: Nov 08 Completion Date: due May 09 1.4 Remove item - completed. 2.1 Remove item – completed 2.2. Remove Item – completed. 2.3 Now 2.1 Previous Completion Date: Mar 08 Completion Date: Full round due Mar 09 2.2 Now 2.3 Comments: One discharge to river for Nov-Dec.
3.1 Change Action wording – I.R. 3.2 Remove item - complete. 4.1 P revious Completion Date: May 07 Discussion followed regarding the value of graphs Action to be changed to “Opportunities to reduce energy consumption” 6.1 Emergency Response Plan updated as part of Safety Case Review 7.1 EIP Action Plan updated February 2009 7.2 Previous Completion Date: May 08 7.3 Previous Completion Date: Nov 08 Environmental Management System under development. 7.4 Previous Completion Date: May 2008 Accredited licence targeted for 2009 5. Operations Report IR presented the highlights of the Coode Island operation over the past three months and expanded on some points. 6. Other Business - Vote of thanks by the community members to Marstel Terminals Management Team for company wide attendance and presentations at the August 08 meeting.
- Safety Case – I.R overviewed the Safety Case document outlining how the review plan was undertaken:
o Bowties diagram review o Management of Change process review o Review of Control Measures o Emergency Response Plan review o Safety Management System review - Marstel Terminals’ involvement with local community. I.C. outlined how Marstel Terminals’ are in the process of aligning themselves with the Western Bulldogs Engaged Community Program. The meeting agreed this was a very worthwhile undertaking. A Vote of Thanks to Marstel for this effort. Community group to be kept updated of progress. Action – IR/ IC
- When Industry is Your Neighbor – T.P again acknowledged Marstel’s contribution to assisting this program.
I.R. outlined Marstel Terminals Coode Island procedures on extreme temperatures days, and that during the recent hot weather all systems at the facility functioned correctly. Meeting closed 8:00pm
Next meeting will be 11th May, 2009 at 5.45pm
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