The Andrews Labor Government has made a gift of hundreds of millions of dollars, that would otherwise be payable in landfill levies by the West Gate Tunnel's builders.

Toxic PFAS contaminated tunnel soil has also been exempted from the protections provided by the Environment Protection Act 1970 to permit the dumping of West Gate Tunnel soil.

The only protection that will remain is the requirement for an approved environment management plan, which the Andrews Labor Government clearly intends to waive through. Most will be kept secret by special exemptions for so-called commercially sensitive information.

Community consultation has been ditched. The special regulations make no mention of any requirement for community consultation or consultation with affected councils.

Daniel Andrews has arrogantly suspended rights of appeal to VCAT leaving local communities with few legal avenues. He has stripped away basic democratic rights.

The extraordinary regulations will allow the transport, receiving, processing and dumping of PFAS contaminated toxic tunnel boring machine soil from the West Gate Tunnel just 200 metres from “any building that is a sensitive land use, including a residential dwelling, a health service, a child care centre or an education centre”.

This effectively gives the Government and its Transurban mates the ability to process and dump toxic PFAS contaminated soil close to child care, schools, houses and health services at will. It gives the green light to dumping at Bacchus Marsh, Bulla and Ravenhall as Daniel Andrews sees fit with virtually no checks and balances and no community consultation whatsoever.

The new requirements are so weak as to render the Environment Protection Act meaningless, a special deal to allow Daniel Andrews’ mates to pollute virtually unchecked.