{"id":11449,"date":"2018-02-12T11:52:00","date_gmt":"2018-02-12T11:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/portstrategy.nfdtesting.uk\/greenport\/2018\/02\/12\/adelaide-faces-dredging-plan-backlash\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T15:08:06","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T14:08:06","slug":"adelaide-faces-dredging-plan-backlash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/news\/oceania\/adelaide-faces-dredging-plan-backlash\/","title":{"rendered":"Adelaide faces dredging plan backlash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Australian Greens&#8217; South Australian parliamentary leader Mark Parnell said the project risks &#8220;massive&#8221; environmental harm and has suggested that details of the Environmental Protection Authority&#8217;s advice on the dredging is being kept secret.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Parnell said one of the most important assessments from the EPA will be whether dredged material could be more safely disposed of on dry land rather than at sea.<\/p>\n<p>He said the EPA&#8217;s advice won\u2019t be released prior to a planning assessment of the A$50m project. &#8220;This secrecy makes a mockery of both the independence of the EPA and the State Planning Commission&#8217;s commitment to openness and accountability.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Flinders Ports has defended the plan to widen Port Adelaide&#8217;s Outer Harbour Channel to accommodate larger containerships as essential to protect the import and export industry in South Australia.<\/p>\n<p>The Flinders Adelaide Container Terminal is the only container terminal in South Australia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Political opposition has mounted to Port Adelaides plans to dredge to accommodate larger containerships.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":11450,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-11449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oceania"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11449"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11449\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11451,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11449\/revisions\/11451"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11449"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=11449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}