Western Port
Western Port
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28 February
2017
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Smoke signals end of clean up – for now THE smoke from Esso’s processing plant at Hastings has subsided for now, but the latest clean-up has revived calls for the practice to end. Dense smoke is emitted from the stacks at Long Island Point whenever the company undertakes maintenance and burns excess hydrocarbons. The emissions are allowed under licence by the EPA, but environmentalists say it’s time the plant - opened in 1970 - was modernised and fitted with the latest technology to minimise the discharge. The latest licenced discharge ended last week, coinciding with earthworks alongside the main entry into Hastings signalling the end is in sight for a new pipeline to the plant from Gippsland. The 187-kilometre long pipeline will carry crude oil and condensate from Esso’s Longford plant to its processing plant at Hastings. “It’s a gas all the way from Gippsland” Page 8 Picture: Fran Henke
Drug deals: mother, son charged Stephen Taylor steve@mpnews.com.au A MOTHER and son arrested in Somerville last week allegedly supplied cannabis to school students over the past 12 months. Sniffer dogs taken to their house assisted police in allegedly finding two
cannabis plants, 57 grams of cannabis in foils and $2865 cash. A 41-year-old woman was charged with drug trafficking and possession and profiting from the proceeds of crime. She was bailed to appear at Frankston Magistrates’ Court in April. Her son, 15, a former student of the school, was charged with cultivating,
trafficking and possession. He was summonsed to appear at a children’s court at a later date. Acting Senior Sergeant Melissa Rodgers, of Hastings police, described the pair as “major distributors [of cannabis] to kids in Somerville”. She said police would allege “four ounces of cannabis was being sold
from the house per week” since February last year. “We are told this house was the goto place for kids to buy cannabis in Somerville,” Sergeant Rodgers said. Two plants were allegedly found growing at the property, which is close to Somerville Secondary College. Principal Christopher Lloyd said he
did not know if the mother and son had sold drugs to Somerville secondary students, even though they “lived close by”. The school had not counselled students specifically over this drug issue, but regularly ran harm minimisation sessions to advise of the dangers of drugs.
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