What a disgrace

• General News
• 15th July 2013

On a recent trip to Port Hedland I came across two sites that can only be described as a disgrace.

The first being BP’s Self Service fuel site at the front of Toll Mining’s premises in Wedgefield.

The pot holes and divets are big enough to bury a car in.

As trucks manouvered their way through the quagmire I was amazed no one punched the arse out of their fuel tanks or ripped the legs off their trailers.

I was told that drop decks were bellying out and looked more like ploughs in a paddock.

Somebody had arranged for a couple of loads of reclaimed bitumen to be dumped in front of the crater-filled moonscape but the ugly looking heaps just sat there waiting to be spread.

Obviously the owners of the dump see no urgency in the situation.

In any case it’s just a bullshit bandaid measure that won’t be worth two bob after the first downpour.

You’d think that given the massive volumes of fuel they sell to the trucking industry -and the fortune they reap - that they’d give something back.

The tight-arses should put their hands into their deep pockets and hardstand the whole friggin area with concrete.

Our campaign has just begun.