Is pure h2o dead in the water?
An interesting letter to the Editor, the Chronicle (18 March) from the spokesperson of the Council affiliated petition gatherer (annotated):
It is now six months since the "imminent" announcement from the Federal Government of a decision on funding for the Water Futures Proposal.
[No, the Mayor has been continually trying to put pressure on the Federal Government by saying a decision is imminent.]
The National Water Commission has recommended funding.
[Has it or has it made certain recommendations with a number of conditions the Mayor cannot fulfil?]
The PM and the Minister responsible for Water Policy Malcolm Turnbull are both advocates of recycling.
[PM Howard has not stated his position on drinking recycled sewage. MP Turnbull's comments: “And the decision as to whether a particular community wants to put recycled waste water back into the drinking water stream has to be a decision for that community. The reality is that a project of this kind will not succeed without community support." - the Australian, 2 March 2006]
Only our own local Federal Member Mr Macfarlane equivocates.
[Actually, no. MP Macfarlane's comments: “I cannot support the proposal as it stands until all of these unresolved issues are properly addressed, detailed explanations on costings and technology made public, and all options fully investigated and costed.” -Downs Diary, November 2005 - that seems pretty clear.]
Consequently, Toowoomba residents are left in limbo.
It is entirely reprehensible of Minister Macfarlane to leave this city dangling and divided.
[Is it reprehensible to believe that all options should be fully investigated and costed? No. And isn't it the Mayor who has divided the community?]
Get your Government to make a decision, Minister, one way or the other.
[Interesting - the Council affiliated group seems to be threatening a Federal Minister - that will get you a long way.]
It is the Federal Government's lack of decision that perpetuates division in this community.
[No, it's the Mayor's inability to compromise in the face of overwhelming community opposition - putting the FTR good before the common good.]
JN
Spokesperson [of the Council affiliated interest group]
Toowoomba.
If you can't dazzle with brilliance - lie, demand and threaten ...
posted by Concerned Ratepayer at 2:31 PM
5 Comments:
No one I have spoken to actually wants to drink recycled effluent.
Were is the divided community that the media and TCC go on about?
12:29 AM, March 22, 2006
Well, there's the community on one side and the Flanagan, Thorley, Ramia trio, the Councillor ladies, the support group petitioners and a few others on the other.
1:32 AM, March 22, 2006
Do the council ladies actually go out of the ivory tower and talk to the people. I have not talked to any one who want the reclaimed sewage water project. The booklet dose not help as the people have already educated them self and will not be taken in by misinformation.
The girls would seem to have their hands full just keeping the mayor calm as the tears flow at the council.
6:52 AM, March 22, 2006
The Water Book will come back to haunt the Councillors at the next election - it will be brought out in 2008 as an example of misinformation and financial mismanagement.
10:43 AM, March 22, 2006
The mayor loses it when HMAS Toowoomba came to town. Now she's crying at a book launch.
Is the Mayor suffering a nervous breakdown?
10:52 AM, March 22, 2006
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