Zoom won't do for West Gate Tunnel soil talks

The COVID-19 pandemic is making it harder for Victorian communities to get information on the disposal of contaminated soil from Transurban's $6.7 billion West Gate Tunnel because big public meetings cannot be held, local residents say.

Cleanaway Waste Management, one of several companies bidding to remove soil contaminated with per-and polyfluorinated alkyl substances (PFAS) from the West Gate Tunnel construction site, held a Zoom meeting on Thursday night with community members and representatives from Victoria's Environmental Protection Authority (EPA.)