1 May 2007:
Asia’s 3 million contaminated sites represent
a huge export opportunity for Australia’s growing clean-up
industry, says one of the nation’s leading contamination
scientists.
A plan to launch an industry information exchange
or cluster enabling Australian companies to tap the best new
science and technology for assessing and cleaning up site
contamination will be a focus at the nation’s
first-ever Remediation Industry Summit in Adelaide, in June
2007.
“Asia’s spectacular economic
development is coming at a high price – increasing
contamination of land, water and air, according to scientific
colleagues we work with there,” says Professor Ravi Naidu,
managing director of CRC CARE.
“There are real threats to human and
environmental health – and an urgent need and demand for the
skills and technologies needed to fix them.
“Australian companies, regulators and
scientists are blazing a trail towards new, cost-effective ways to
clean up and prevent this pollution which threatens human and
environmental health. There are huge export opportunities for those
who get in first, with the best technologies.”
CRC CARE plans to set up a nationwide contamination cleanup
industry cluster and information exchange, to be known as
Australian Contamination CleanUp (ACC).
The cluster proposal will be discussed by industry,
government agencies, local councils and scientists at Contamination
Cleanup 07, to be held in Adelaide from June 24-28 this year. See:
http://www.crccare.com/clean_up07.htm
Depending on what its members want, advantages from
joining ACC could include:
- access to top experts in contamination science,
industry and regulation
- early access to new scientific breakthroughs
- a chance to be ‘first to market’ with
new technologies
- partnership with like-minded companies to gain
clean-up contracts at home and overseas
- better intelligence about global market
opportunities
- access to leading regulators and advice on
regulatory trends.
- a strong peer network for exchange of ideas,
advice and information
- access to CRC CARE’s proposed contamination
overseas trade missions.
“CRC CARE’s aim in helping to set up
this cluster is to ensure our latest science and technology reach
industry as quickly as possible, in order both to improve
Australia’s own health and environment and to generate new
commercial and export opportunities,” Prof Naidu says.
“CRC CARE itself was set up with close
involvement from our industry partners, and we are keen to share
the benefits of our research as widely as possible. Details of what
the ACC cluster will do and how it will operate will be worked out
in consultation with industry participants and with bodies like the
newly formed Australian Land and Groundwater
Association.”
Companies and organisation with an interest in
joining ACC and helping to build a dynamic new export sector in
cutting-edge cleanup technology and advice are welcome to contact
CRC CARE, below.
More information:
Professor Ravi Naidu, MD, CRC CARE, ph 08 8302 5041 or 0407 720
257
Kim Sinclair, CRC CARE Communication Officer, ph 08 8302 3933 or
0416 095 324
Kim.sinclair@crccare.com
