Traveston tragedy!
Is it just me or does everyone feel like a country cousin today?
Peter Beattie is coming to Gympie today, to reveal his plans to flood the Mary Valley.
Every-one agrees, we don’t have enough water.
According to the Sunshine Coast Environment Council Website, the Beattie Government has been told that because of population growth southeast Queensland will run out of water as early as June 2008.
The Government needs to do something, and Premier Pete has decided to hang tough in Gympie…today he is expected to announce that 900 properties will be resumed at the Traveston site. 900….Essentially, because Brisbane doesn’t get enough rain.
There’s a lot of great information in today’s sunshine coast daily…one letter to the editor from David Wise of Palmwoods is interesting…he calls on Peter Beattie to investigate
Recycled effluent…rather than turn the pristine Mary River into a giant cistern for Brisbane’s toilets…
Because that’s the issue isn’t it…Mr Beattie knows how unpopular the Traveston decision is in this region…but he’s counting on the voters of Brisbane to save him at the next election…interesting co-incidence too that the Traveston site falls largely in two electorates not held by the Beattie Government.
I understand the government is facing a water crisis. But there’s got to be a better way…another letter to the editor in todays daily is a beauty.
Gail Godwin of Gympie calls for a smaller dam at Amamoor (Peter Wellington told me that was where the government was always supposed to go)…
Or what about increasing the size of the Borumba Dam…
And most importantly, lets get smarter. A new Dam at Traveston…sure…but if we don’t start using water more wisely…where will we put the next dam…because we’re bound to need one…
Why shouldn’t every single household in south east queensland have a water tank. Charge people more for water. Make them think about that ten minute shower. Subsidise water saving devices.
900 families hearts are going to be broken today. In some cases, a century of farming heritage will be sacrificed…a cemetery…personal burial plots and some of the most beautiful and productive farming land in Queensland will be sunk…literally…
All because our voting power doesn’t scare Peter Beattie.
If you want to join the public meeting today…it’s One O’clock at the Gympie Showgrounds, corner of Exhibition and Johnson Roads Gympie.
Peter Beattie is coming to Gympie today, to reveal his plans to flood the Mary Valley.
Every-one agrees, we don’t have enough water.
According to the Sunshine Coast Environment Council Website, the Beattie Government has been told that because of population growth southeast Queensland will run out of water as early as June 2008.
The Government needs to do something, and Premier Pete has decided to hang tough in Gympie…today he is expected to announce that 900 properties will be resumed at the Traveston site. 900….Essentially, because Brisbane doesn’t get enough rain.
There’s a lot of great information in today’s sunshine coast daily…one letter to the editor from David Wise of Palmwoods is interesting…he calls on Peter Beattie to investigate
Recycled effluent…rather than turn the pristine Mary River into a giant cistern for Brisbane’s toilets…
Because that’s the issue isn’t it…Mr Beattie knows how unpopular the Traveston decision is in this region…but he’s counting on the voters of Brisbane to save him at the next election…interesting co-incidence too that the Traveston site falls largely in two electorates not held by the Beattie Government.
I understand the government is facing a water crisis. But there’s got to be a better way…another letter to the editor in todays daily is a beauty.
Gail Godwin of Gympie calls for a smaller dam at Amamoor (Peter Wellington told me that was where the government was always supposed to go)…
Or what about increasing the size of the Borumba Dam…
And most importantly, lets get smarter. A new Dam at Traveston…sure…but if we don’t start using water more wisely…where will we put the next dam…because we’re bound to need one…
Why shouldn’t every single household in south east queensland have a water tank. Charge people more for water. Make them think about that ten minute shower. Subsidise water saving devices.
900 families hearts are going to be broken today. In some cases, a century of farming heritage will be sacrificed…a cemetery…personal burial plots and some of the most beautiful and productive farming land in Queensland will be sunk…literally…
All because our voting power doesn’t scare Peter Beattie.
If you want to join the public meeting today…it’s One O’clock at the Gympie Showgrounds, corner of Exhibition and Johnson Roads Gympie.
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