Letter to the Editor – Larissa Waters Questions
to the Australian Government re Leaded AvGas
Graphic: Screenshot from BFPCA’s Facebook page: https://fb.me/bfpca.org.au
Excerpt of Wednesday 28 February 2025 email from QUT (Queensland University of
Technology) Professor Marcus Foth, Chair, Brisbane Flight Path Community Alliance
(BFPCA) - People before planes community group advocating since Oct 2024 for
leaded AvGas ban, to Elizabeth O’Brien, The LEAD Group Inc
I’m writing to bring to your attention a
segment from Monday’s [26 February
2025] Senate Estimates hearings where
Senator Larissa Waters [pictured, who
became the Greens Leader following the
May 2025 Federal Australian election]
questions the Department of
Infrastructure’s aviation branch
[Australian Government’s Department
of Infrastructure, Transport, Regional
Development, Communications, Sport
and the Arts; see
https://www.infrastructure.gov.au/infrastructure-transport-vehicles/aviation where
neither <leaded> nor <AvGas> are mentioned] about their soil testing for lead at and
around airports. We have uploaded this video clip here:
https://youtu.be/MAhOBdx_FXQ
[Editor’s Note: the video is well worth watching as it shows that Senator Waters’
highly informed questions about AvGas being a leaded aviation fuel used by general
aircraft – not jets, about lead exposure from AvGas and about testing of soil for lead
at and around airports, came as a complete surprise to the Infrastructure
Department representatives.]
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