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    • April 19

      Cancellation of April 2023 ACNCG Meeting

      The scheduled ACNCG meeting, scheduled for 6:00pm on Thursday 20th April, has been cancelled as no ACNCG community members have advised they will be able to attend.
      The presentation material that was scheduled according to the agenda will still be posted on the ACNCG website under the meeting event.

    • March 31

      Qenos Altona Plant Restart Following Planned Maintenance - update

    • March 21

      Qenos Altona Plant Restart Following Planned Maintenance

    • March 10

      DOW Chemical Altona Groundwater Sampling Mar/Apr 2023

    • February 09

      Qenos Scheduled Plant Maintenance Feb/Mar 2023

    • January 29

      QENOS OLEFINS SCAL-2 PLANT START UP UPDATE

    • January 28

      QENOS OLEFINS SCAL-2 PLANT UNSCHEDULED SHUTDOWN

    • December 24

      Qenos Olefins SCAL-2 plant start up has been completed.

    • December 18

      Qenos Olefins SCAL-2 Plant start-up status update

    • December 10

      Qenos Olefins SCAL-2 Plant start-up status update

    • December 08

      Qenos Olefins SCAL-2 plant start up status

    • December 01

      Qenos Olefins SCAL-2 plant start up and return to production

    • October 30

      Qenos Olefins SCAL-2 Planned maintenance shutdown

    • October 22

      LOCAL ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING

    • August 05

      Qenos Flaring

    • December 05

      Qenos Flaring

    • October 28

      Local Environmental Monitoring

    • September 02

      QENOS ALTONA OLEFINS ETP CLEAN

    • August 09

      Qenos Flaring

    • July 19

      Local Environmental Monitoring

    • June 07

      Solve Altona maintenance and flaring

    • May 14

      Local environmental monitoring

    • April 05

      Odour reduction project implementation

    • February 25

      QENOS OLEFINS FLARING Feb 26 to March 4 2019 (UPDATE)

    • December 14

      Qenos Olefins flaring

    • November 01

      Local environmental monitoring

    • October 30

      Notification of works - early November

    • August 24

      Qenos Altona - PFAS Update

    • July 27

      Local Environmental Monitoring

    • July 23

      GROUNDWATER WELL SURVEYING

    • July 06

      Qenos plant start up update

    • July 03

      Qenos plant shutdowns 3/7/18

    • June 21

      Qenos Olefins SCAL-2 unplanned shutdown and startup

    • June 08

      Qenos Olefins plant start up

    • June 06

      Recent Qenos flare use

    • May 17

      Local environmental monitoring

    • April 24

      Qenos Altona Maintenance Activities Update - April 2018

    • March 28

      Qenos Altona Maintenance Activities April 2018

    • February 08

      Local environment monitoring

    • February 01

      Qenos Olefins SCAL-1 Shutdown and Maintenance

    • November 23

      Qenos Olefins SCAL-2 start up after steam supply interruption

    • October 09

      LOCAL ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING

      In October 2017 contractors from Coffey Environments Pty Ltd will be out in the northern part of Altona sampling groundwater. This regular monitoring work is being done on behalf of Dow Chemical to help assess the performance of groundwater remediation systems in place on the company’s manufacturing site.

      If you have any questions or for more information please contact:

      Taimor Hazou at Dow Chemical, Public Affairs

      +61 3 9956 7593 or thazou@dow.com

    • October 09

      Qenos Olefins SCAL-1 start up

      Qenos has completed the maintenance of the Olefins site SCAL-1 plant over the weekend of 7th and 8th October and will be restarting the plant over the next two to three days.

      The flare will be in operation during the start up and will be managed to minimise the community impact.

      Flares are used to safely burn waste gases which cannot be recovered or recycled in the processing plants. Further information about flares at Altona can be found on the Qenos website

    • October 02

      Qenos Flaring

      Qenos Olefins site has experienced two elevated flaring events in the past week that will have been observed by the community. On Wednesday 27th of September there was some flaring when a section of the SCAL-1 plant was shutdown for some unplanned maintenance. (The plant is yet to be restarted).


      On Sunday 1st October at 8:45pm the SCAL-2 plant's production went off specification and was diverted to the flare until 11.20 pm when it returned to specification. This flaring was very bright with the atmospheric conditions creating a glow in the sky in the Altona region. Qenos received four calls to the Environmental Action Line about the flaring.

      The timing of the SCAL-1 plant restart which will require some flaring is still to be determined. An update will be provided with the restart timing.

      Flares are used to safely burn waste gases which cannot be recovered or recycled in the processing plants.

    • September 27

      Local hydrogeological studies

      During October 2017, contractors from Coffey Environments Pty Ltd will be working in the northern part of Altona conducting groundwater pumping tests.

    • August 08

      Local environmental monitoring

      Local environmental monitoring

    • June 19

      Local Environmental Monitoring

    • May 26

      Qenos Altona Power failure event update - Restarting facilities

    • May 25

      Qenos Altona Flaring event

    • May 23

      May groundwater sampling

    • February 02

      Altona groundwater sampling

    • September 02

      Local environmental monitoring

    • June 01

      EPA Approves Dow Clean Up Plan

    • February 23

      Qenos Olefins SCAL-2 Plant unplanned shutdown

    • September 30

      Qenos Plastics Ground Flare Activation

    • September 04

      Commissioning of Qenos expansion project

      Commissioning of the Qenos Altona Expansion Project is set to commence during the first week of September 2013. Please see the attached Letter to our Neighbours for information regarding start up.

    • July 11

      Activation of Ground Flare

      The Qenos Plastics Ground flare activated as designed when a plant shutdown was required by a compressor gearbox failure.

    • May 10

      Noise complaints for high pitched noise

      Qenos Plastics has accepted five noise complaints between 10-13 May 2013 related to a tonal noise generated from a low speed gear box fitted to the Reactor 1 Recycle Gas Compressor in Mid April.

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