Mr Flanagan - Water Futures was never intended to get Toowoomba through the current drought ...
Finally, the truth comes out.
At yesterday's Water Facts meeting to discuss water source options (as reported in today's Chronicle), the Council's Director of Engineering Services Kevin Flanagan made a shocking admission:
Water Futures, the Mayor's controversial recycled sewage project, was NEVER intended to get Toowoomba through the current drought.
What?@!?@?
Since July 2005, Mayor Thorley and Deputy Mayor Ramia have been telling Toowoomba residents that their recycled sewage project will solve Toowoomba's water source issues.
And then at the first real meeting of Water Facts, the Council's Director of Engineering Services tells us that the project was never intended to get Toowoomba through the current drought and that, if needed, the State government would pipe water from somewhere as it did when Gladstone faced a similar crisis.
I'm sorry Mr Flanagan but what the @?!?&*? have you and the Council been telling the Toowoomba community for the past nine months?
Weren't you telling us that there are no other options and that the recycled sewage project would solve Toowoomba's water source problems?
Weren't you scaring the community into thinking that the water would run out unless the recycled sewage project proceeded?
Forgive us for being more than a little surprised!
What this says is that Flanagan, Thorley and Ramia have been so preoccupied with trying the shove their recycled sewage project down people's throats that they have not planned for the immediate future. They have not planned for the current drought and the need for other water source options.
This is Council mismanagement at its very worst.
Mr Flanagan gets some marks for finally coming forward with the truth but it seems unlikely that it will garner him much favour with the community.
If you only circulate one article from this blog, it should be this one. Use the email link to email it to at least one person in Toowoomba you know and ask them to email it on to at least one more person in Toowoomba.
The truth is now out - so make sure everyone knows ...
posted by Concerned Ratepayer at 11:36 AM
23 Comments:
Flanagans Job now in jepardy
11:44 AM, March 30, 2006
For 9 months we have been told that we need Water Futures otherwise the water will run out - now we are told that it was never intended to help with the drought.
I'm hopping mad now!
11:54 AM, March 30, 2006
Time to go K K Kev.
Poor man does'nt seem to even know yet.
12:46 PM, March 30, 2006
The people will have to spread the word as we cannot count on the Chronicle to repeat that statement.
This about the recycled sewage plan.
"It was never intended to get Toowoomba through the current drought". By Flanagan.
What were they trying to do. Scare the people into accepting their plan even though the water is not ready until 2011. Where is it to come from?
They will be judged on it.
Shame, shame Thorley, Ramia and Flanagan.
***Tell every one you know and tell them to tell some-one.
This can be beaten by the community being informed with the truth!
2:03 PM, March 30, 2006
Shame Council shame
Shame Flanagan shame.
3:16 PM, March 30, 2006
tell everyone you know - tell the CMC!
3:19 PM, March 30, 2006
How can they get away with such lies - they shouldn't.
3:37 PM, March 30, 2006
One of the Council's problems is that the longer this went on, the greater the likelihood of being trapped by the lies and the deception:
- there are no other options
- it will solve Toowoomba's water problems
- they do it elsewhere [not at 25% they don't!]
- 70% of the community wants it.
The Council treated the public as idiots and that was offensive.
People started to talk and do some research and pretty soon we knew that the Council's strategy was to mislead the public into accepting their recycled sewage proposal.
Heads should roll over this - you cannot mislead the public in the manner in which the Council has over the past nine months and expect to get away with it.
If you mislead the public, you have to expect that there will be consequences when the truth does finally come out.
3:44 PM, March 30, 2006
BOOT THEM OUT NOW!!!!
3:54 PM, March 30, 2006
If anybody in their right mind listened to the councils water futures project and beleaved it, need to be properlly educated.
We don't all have access to such information and rely on alternate sources such as the council, hence why the Water Futures Booklet was released, aimed at the public without knowledge and insigts a bit of godleness if you ask me.
I think the council under esimated the intelligence of the Toowoomba community and are now paying for it.
The biggest cover up story to date, WATER FUTURES, it was intended to hold back the real proplem and keep people's minds away from the real picture, WE NEED WATER NOW, not in 5 years.
4:10 PM, March 30, 2006
council has been caught out now. what next?
4:12 PM, March 30, 2006
It's a scandal. Should be an inquiry into the misconduct.
4:13 PM, March 30, 2006
Can someone please tell me any other example where a local council has tried to mislead its community the same way this council has. I can't think of one.
4:21 PM, March 30, 2006
The writing is now pretty much on the wall. After the lies the truth is now out there. Thorley and co should do the only honourable thing left to them and resign before they are forced from office. It's time for some people power. They were elected to serve the people not to deceive them. Enough is enough.
4:29 PM, March 30, 2006
Comments on this issue by Councillor Shelton:
http://lyles-blog.blogspot.com/
4:30 PM, March 30, 2006
I have believed all along that there recycled effluent plan was nothing more then a means to population control in an attempt to not have to solve our cities water problem with something a little bit more expensive, long-lasting and more drought-proof. Just think about it. Council gets there effluent project up and running, people move away from the city in disgust and no-one wants to come and live here, less people means less water being used, negative growth leads to businesses closing and people moving elswhere to acquire employment which means even less water being used. I do believe this maybe the state governments agenda as well.
Just look at the effect just the project being mooted has had. Developers of several major projects that were planned for the city have shyed away and I have heard rumours of several major food-processing industries contemplating a move from the city.
Shame on you TCC, time for most of you to move on and get jobs elsewhere and let some people that are a little bit more skilled in problem solving take the reigns of this city.
The drought has gone into its seventh year and almost no rainfall this month. I bet DI wasn't hoping for that. We now need urgent action on a pipeline from the Condamine Alluvium aquifer to the west which is far less expensive then Beatties plan to pump effluent from Brisbane to Tarong. This has a potential to yield up to 6 times more water then TCC's recycling plant and would give the city at least 20 to 30 years to come up with a drought-proofing strategy.
4:40 PM, March 30, 2006
email it to the mayor
D.Thorley@toowoomba.qld.gov.au
5:32 PM, March 30, 2006
The cat is out of the bag now. I bet the mayor is desperately trying to stuff it back in.
6:39 PM, March 30, 2006
Almost at the point where the people ain't gonna take any more.
8:01 PM, March 30, 2006
The TCC is so hypocritical. They ask us to believe in their water futures plan which will resolve Toowoomba's water problems. Then what they don't tell us is that it won't resolve the water problems. What help is that? They have lied to us from the start. They should be ashamed of themselves.
9:32 PM, March 30, 2006
Flanagan well and truly let the cat out of the bag. He has sung Thorley's tune up until now.
His admission is amazing - despite everything the Council has been telling us, their sewage project was NEVER intended to deal with the current drought.
What the hell was it for then?
A money making exercise for the Council?
1:55 PM, March 31, 2006
All councillors to get the chop no transparency.
They all knew and said nothing and still continue to say nothing just shows waht you get when you vote for tree huggers flower lovers singers has beens etc all with no brain power don't vote for popularity or personalities next time at the voting box. Shaft this start with a complete new bunch
10:15 AM, April 01, 2006
If the overseas and north coast experience is anything to go by, expect them all to be clean out at the next election.
12:35 PM, April 01, 2006
Post a Comment
<< Home