Mayor should talk to the community ...

Letter to the Editor, Toowoomba Chronicle which sums up the Council's approach to community consultation on the Mayor's controversial project:

Mayor should talk to the community

Last week we saw the Mayor go to the north coast and address the Coolola Council and the Chamber of Commerce on how she is the leading light for recycling sewage water for drinking.

They were led to believe that Toowoomba people have embraced it and it would be on line soon.

This mayor should be talking to her community at a public meeting where people who know the facts can debate them with her and the council.

We have towns of Chinchilla, Miles and now Dalby signing on for gas water and we have a council telling us that it is not safe and that it will be too expensive.

This is deliberately misleading the public.

At Chinchilla, the gas fields are about to install a snow maker to help to get rid of water, all the time we keep bucketing the water to our gardens.

Shame, Shame on all the Council.

Never have we seen so little debate from a council on such an important issue.

RM
Toowoomba

The letter raises some interesting issues:

- why is the Mayor addressing other communities on the issue of drinking recycled sewage when she will not address the concerns of the Toowoomba community?

- her increasing absence from Toowoomba - is she still discharging her responsibilities as Mayor?

- why is the Council so afraid of public debate on the issue in Toowoomba?

- will the Mayor offer a similar story at the conferences she is scheduled to attend over the next couple of months?