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MELVILLE CITY HERALD Volume 23 No 9 Melville Cityʼs own INDEPENDENT newspaper 41 Cliff Street, Fremantle Saturday March 3, 2012 Letterboxed to Applecross, Alfred Cove, Ardross, Attadale, Bicton, Booragoon, Ph: 9430 7727 Fax 9430 7726 Applecross to Bicton Edition Brentwood, Melville, Mt Pleasant, Myaree and Palmyra. Email: [email protected] Sack CEO over stink: Trade slump Labor MP by BRENDAN FOSTER FRAN LOGAN wants Water Corporation CEO Sue Murphy sacked after her agency spent $137 million batters Freo on a failed bid to fi x odour problems at the Woodman Point Waste Water Treatment STEVES Plant. GRANTG He says the agency’s failure to deal with odour has resulted FREMANTLE’S retail sector in it telling Munster residents a continues to slump despite 20-year-old “temporary” buffer modest signs of improvement zone around their homes is likely across the rest of the state. to be made pemanent. “I got $100 million out of the The Australian Bureau of Carpenter Labor government Statistics reports a 0.5 per cent to address the odour problems retail sector improvement for WA at Woodman Point Waste Water over December and January. Treatment Plant,” the former A survey of 315 businesses Labor energy minister said. commissioned by Fremantle “The total cost of the council over the same period project appears to have blown found many that had been out to $137 million and now keeping their heads above water Watercorp’s press release tells last year were now fl oundering. residents that they cannot Almost 44 per cent reported lower guarantee they will not get sales over the past year, up from odours from time to time and 30 per cent in February 2010. the buffer zone over their land The number expecting sales to should stay in place. drop even further almost doubled “If Watercorp have spent and those who thought they’d sell $137 million worth of taxpayers’ more rose just three per cent. • Photo by money and the odours still cannot Matthew Dwyer be controlled, then people in Sack Watercorp need to be sacked...” • Deirdre Westerhout wants to close her store and is looking for someone to take over the lease. Jobs are on the line, with 18 per • continued page 7 cent planning to sack staff or not replace those who leave. All shock, no awe: Closure looms Beat the gloom Despite its appointment of DO your bit for the economy economic consultants and gurus, DEIRDRE WESTERHOUT’S But with empty shops lining weren’t enough. The couple - deliver the Herald and then its creation of business precincts company Shock and Oar is a the city’s streets, her Fremantle has young children and trying fl spend your cash in one of the and committees and spending little microcosm of the issues Property Services landlord isn’t to juggle a agging store great shops that advertise with hundreds of thousands of dollars facing retailers. keen on releasing the couple while cranking up an internet us. Check out the maps inside on slick marketing campaigns, from their lease, so they’re business isn’t working. then call Marie 9430 7727 the council has lost traders’ Following an eight per cent searching for some other business “If retail took off we would confi dence. decline in sales from last year, to take over. be able to take people on and Almost half those surveyed Ms Westerhout and hubby Brian Ms Westerhout says FPS have a good quality of life, but Find the Fake Ad & WIN a think the council isn’t helping are trying to close the doors on “came to the party” in trying to it just doesn’t look like it,” she Chance for a Feast for 2 improve the local economy. their Fremantle clothing store offer inducements to keep the told the Herald, sadly. In February 2010 just 18.4 per and focus on online retailing. store running, but they simply • continued page 9 cent thought the same. Satisfaction with the council plummeted from “cooperative trading/marketing when expensive TV ads featuring assertion that clicks on a website 32.7 per cent to 18.9 per cent. approach...had been successful”. some Dockers spruiking the city didn’t translate into bums on However, Mayor Brad Pettitt Council offi cials pointed had aired in the eastern states. plane seats or money in local tills. tells the Herald council offi cials For details, please see the proudly to the fact 10,000 people However, Dr Pettitt glumly “The evidence is that both Competitions page are telling him the council’s had entered an online competition acknowledged the Chooks’ • continued page 9 The Grand Pearl Sale - Peppermint Grove Jewellers Little Penguins in peril Limited off sale time only a serious threat to the colony’s 40% ends 31 March by BRENDAN FOSTER long-term survival. “Not only did we see an 42 Napolean St. Cottesloe • Tel: 9383 1108 • Layby welcome A MURDOCH UNIVERSITY researcher fears for the future increase in dead birds, but of Perth’s Little Penguin breeding was also very poor in 2011. population. “If penguins lay their Research associate Belinda eggs later in the year, their Cannell says the death rate is chicks will be in the nests in running four times above normal November to January and and rising sea temperatures are are also at risk of death from year, but in 2011 we found 49.” to blame. overheating. “This marine heat wave “Members of the public and “The penguins in Perth are probably led to a decline in department of conservation staff quite unique compared to other the fi sh stocks that the Little found dead penguins between Little Penguin colonies, so it is Penguins rely on for food.” Safety Bay and the mouth of the vital we understand the various Dr Cannell says some birds Donnelly River as well as on pressures they face in order to died from starvation, others Penguin Island,” she says. protect them.” from overheating while others “Between 2006 and 2010 we • Little Penguins used to be still were mowed down by boats. found an average of 12 dead known as Fairy Penguins. Why the She says the death rate poses It’s where birds in the second half of the change? Who’d know. the locals eat Authentic Italian food cooked by Italian chef Council backs Aaron Palermo Come along and try your new wind farm favourite dish But Barnett, Port, have doubts 93 Market St, Fremantle Ph: 9430 6126 OPEN 7 DAYS 11am - Late by STEVE GRANT it’s safe and viable. Mr Ally says he’s A NEW bid for a wind farm crunched the numbers on North Mole has been and is sure it will ❚❘■❚❘■❚❘■❚❘■❚❘■❚❘■❚❘■❚❘■❚❘■❚❘■❚❘■❚❘■❚❘■❚❘■ launched. work. The imminent American-born engineer introduction of a federal Jamie Ally is spearheading the carbon tax will make experienced, push, and aims to produce 6.4 it even more viable megawatts of power through compared to gas- and fi advertising salesperson eight turbines—equal to four coal- red power times what Fremantle council production. uses every year. The project’s wanted. fi Mr Ally says the project will proposed pro tability took a hit last month Please forward your CV, including references to use information gathered during a previous stalled bid, estimating with WA’s independent Natalie Hug, Advertising Director energy regulator Fremantle Herald, PO Box 85, North Fremantle WA 6159 it will take $15—$18 million and two years to build once cutting the rate per or email [email protected] approvals are in. kilowatt hour the WA A key sticking point appears government will pay to be reluctance from the Barnett wind farm operators. government and Fremantle • Jamie Ally is hoping to get a wind farm It did this because it Ports to allocate land: It was running on North Mole. found wind generators aren’t as reliable in ❚❘■❚❘■❚❘■❚❘■❚❘■❚❘■❚❘■❚❘■❚❘■❚❘■❚❘■❚❘■❚❘■❚❘■ their reluctance to embrace wind power that caused the previous times of peak demand bid to falter. “wind farm syndrome” is pretty as previously thought. Mr Ally is hoping a new thin. He says wind farms are the Mr Ally says the change has business model, which will see most low-cost form of alternative already been factored in. the project in the hands of local energy, able to compete with He’s the general manager of shareholders, can prove to port gas-powered power stations. HAC Australia, a company he managers the community can Dr Pettitt says the council established which was recently embrace the project. The Herald had been talking to Mr Ally and bought out by Energy Made Attention Parents understands two sticking points supports the project. Clean Engineering. He says for the port are concerns by the “The city thinks this is the the wind farm is a side project community and workers about project that ticks every box, and unrelated to either entity and he health effects of wind turbines. we would like to see it happen,” hopes to eventually become a Here’s 4 reasons why you Mayor Brad Pettitt, a former he told the Herald. shareholder. dean of Murdoch University’s He wants the port to set HAC is in the process of should enrol your Child sustainability unit, says he’d aside 10sqm for each turbine, arcing up a solar array near looked into wind farms during even if it puts a moratorium on Carnarvon. It was constructed in our Junior Karate Classes his studies and real evidence for construction until it’s satisfi ed on time and under budget. 1. A Genuine 2 weeks +++++++++++++++ FREE Unlimited Karate Manures so that you can come and check us out Learn Sheep, Cow, without risking 1 single cent.