Monday, December 6, 2010

Fly-in, fly-out fuelling violence: study - WA Business News

Fly-in, fly-out fuelling violence: study - WA Business News

The mining sector's reliance on fly-in, fly-out workers is fuelling an epidemic of violence, a groundbreaking new study has shown.

Researchers have found rates of violent assaults in mining communities in Queensland and Western Australia are more than double the average for each state.

Queensland University of Technology Professor Kerry Carrington has identified serious social problems resulting from the fly-in, fly-out workforce model used by mining companies.

Prof Carrington, the head of the School of Justice Studies at QUT's Faculty of Law, said the three-year study showed mine workers were turning to alcohol and drugs in isolated environments where there were few other ways to spend their time.

Redhand believes that the real reasons these companies prefer FIFO, is because of their health.

If a federal government report says that there needs to be a 15 - 20 km exclusion zone around a LNG refinery because of the deadly air emissions and other highly volatile chemicals that are very dangerous to people and the environment. So what is it doing to the workers?

These problems are not just social and environment are also
physiology.

These
immoral companies need to keep their workforce working, so they give their FIFO time to return home and neutralize their toxic levels.

This is another reason they do not want to pipe the Browse or the Canning Basin gas to the Pilbara because this would send their emissions off the Richter scale in regards to the the National Pollution Inventory. But considering these companies are in charge of their own monitoring, who really understands what the real state of the air quality in the Pilbara is?

But from my research it appears that all levels of government and their associated departments, all companies with interests in the Pilbara are very aware that they are slowly but surely poisoning the entire population of the Pilbara, both with air shed emissions and the toxic condition of their groundwater and the highly hazardous waste within the environment. One of the reason why they also want to go to James Price Point, it has the highest quality of clear air, on the planet.

Enough to make anyone crazy, violent and take up drinking.

21 comments:

  1. I think people would be really shocked if they knew how many men go to Asia when they fly out,so they can have sex with children.I know,I quit working in those places,I couldn't stand working with the bastards.Remember the camp at Jabiru?And of course our good old Shire.Let's advertise it to the world,you can work here on a visa,have sex with our kids,and not go to jail,and keep your job!Perhaps Mamabulanjin can hire out their bus to transport the child prostitutes to and from the gas camps.The shire could have a new logo,something like,"why spend your gas dollars in Asia,when you can have all your child sex in Broome".Come on BCC get with it!

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  2. More contempt from the shire.These people think they are a law unto themselves.Please next election lets have some how to vote cards printed up for the Broome people who don't want everything turned to ****.A lot of people,like myself,find it difficult to get the right information on those in the election.Let's teach these swine a lesson they won't forget!

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  3. Seems this Qld Professor means to make example of us all, instead of addressing the problem/s she is calling the result = Crime. The Gas Hungry Fiends are to Harvest Gas from the Surat Basin ( way mid south west Qld ) & pipe to Gladstone. ( already choked up with Coal Dust & Aluminum. Brisbane is so much closer, & they by pass Bundaberg.. lol

    They also have drilled about the Bowen Basin & intend expand here
    & Who will Stop them!? Not the Central Highlands Regional Council,
    no sire EEE

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  4. The Local Rockhampton Rag led me to this Professor.
    http://www.themorningbulletin.com.au/story/2010/12/07/drunk-miners-dark-underbelly-report/

    What do they drink at Oxford? Sip wine or drink whisky with the Toffs?

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  5. Kellog,Brown and Root,our old friends working at JPP back to their usual form with guess who?http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/12/08/3087560.htm

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  6. Not at all surprising Anon.
    You left off a zero at the end
    & my web could not recognize..
    No difficulty in finding who's who!

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  7. "Nigeria charges Cheney in Halliburton case".ABC news.

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  8. And more on ABC news at 1:15.Wikileaks cables have confirmed Libya insisted the BP contract would not be signed while the Lockerbie Bomber was still in a Scottish jail.Contradicting British MPs who insisted no such deal was done.Scottish doctors said he only had 3 months to live.Over a year later he is still living with his family in a luxury villa in Tripoli.Just how dirty can these people get?Must be terrible for the survivors families,and all the people who have lost loved ones in "The War on Terror".Makes me spew these stinking scum want to come here and destroy this country,the Kimberley.

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  9. To the deputation:never ceases to amaze me,and a lot of others,how well and how hard you guys work for us,YOU'VE GOT MY VOTE!!!

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  10. FIFO workers get time off to de tox.What about all the people and children growing up there who don't get any time off from all this toxic brew?How many generations can we expect these poisons to stay in the enviroment for?

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  11. Do you support Julian Assange founder of Wikileaks?
    Please post your response.

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  12. Yes, and have voted for him for Aussie of the year and signed the get up and avaaz petitions.Bloody great piece on Shell Nigeria!

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  13. Your comment "These immoral companies need to keep their workforce working, so they give their FIFO time to return home and neutralize their toxic levels" - what planet are you on ? I believe you are the one who may be immoral for spreading such lunacy.

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  14. Redhand it is not enough just to say that your research says that govts at all levels and companies know about the toxicity etc...

    What you are asking your reader to do is to "trust you".

    It is a cynical world, Redhand. The people reading your blog who will trust you and repeat such things are only reading it because you are saying what they want to hear.

    The minute you stop saying what they want to hear they will call you a "sellout".

    Isn't people being led along by people telling them what they want to hear one of the problems in this debate?

    Redhand you have got to follow through with what the research is. I am not saying the research is not there - but you need to give your readers the chance to follow up.

    You lament the politically apathetic nature of Aussies, well that is because they live on a diet of media that tells them exactly what they want to hear.

    signed
    Guttenberg Friend

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  15. well for some reason the government does not release emissions data for the pilbara.do you trust them?

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  16. Neither does Woodside,bet you trust them.

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  17. re what planet are you on:there are a lot of occupations where time off is needed to de tox.

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  18. re what planet are you on:there are a lot of occupations where time off is needed to de tox.

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  19. Guttenberg friend,why do you not live in the present?Why persist in worrying.If you have the sense that this thing is only ever going to be safe in your hands,then I suggest you get your own thing going and take us all over from there.

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  20. Sorry for not responding sooner. I need a job and a place to live for 5 people. Can you help me? signed GF

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  21. And thank you for your advice.

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