Freedom of Information request forces Council to disclose NWC application ...
It's what the Toowoomba City Council did not want the public to see - the Council's application for funding to the National Water Commission.
One thing that is clear from the application is that the Mayor wishes to use Toowoomba's residents as Australia's lab rats.
Section 9.0 (Program Justification) should be renamed: "Justification for Toowoomba residents being Australia's lab rats" because that's exactly what it says.
In effect, it says: "Give us funding so we can experiment on the people of Toowoomba and if everything works out you can do it elsewhere."
After months of Mayor Thorley claiming she wasn't using Toowoomba residents as guinea pigs, the truth has been exposed.
I like the veiled threat at the end - in effect "give us funding or we will screw the Toowoomba ratepayers for the money (and they'll hate the Federal government for it)".
No wonder the Council didn't disclose this document before the FOI request forced its disclosure.
You certainly couldn't find it on the Toowoomba Water Futures website.
For further details on the NWC application, see the Water Futures blog - http://waterfutures.blogspot.com/
posted by Concerned Ratepayer at 7:30 AM
4 Comments:
No she will be out of this town and laughing.
What about the poor, elderly etc who can't afford to buy bottled water. They will have to be the "lab rats".
It is alright for all these ones in council, they are on good pay packets!
2:50 PM, December 22, 2005
If the TAB would take my bet, I would bet a tidy sum that the Mayor moves out of Toowoomba after the next election, possibly to Tasmania, possible to run a pub down there ...
3:32 PM, December 22, 2005
Don't forget that the Chief Engineer, Kevin Flanagan, doesn't live in Toowoomba. He lives in Crows Nest shire. So he won't be drinking the water at home.
6:44 PM, December 22, 2005
pure genius, will you be drinking the water? I know I won't and I shouldn't be forced into drinking bottled water by anyone. The Dual Pipeline system could solve all the problems. But hey! that costs more money doesn't it!
2:56 AM, December 23, 2005
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