Springborg finds waste plan hard to swallow ...
From ABC News (annotated):
Springborg finds waste water plan hard to swallow
Friday, 17 March 2006.
The Queensland Opposition leader says he would rather see water piped to Toowoomba from coal seam gas mines in the Surat Basin than the city's residents being forced to drink recycled water.
Shadow Cabinet ministers met in the Garden City yesterday.
The Toowoomba council wants to purify waste water to supplement the city's drinking supplies as part of a $68 million plan to drought-proof the city.
Lawrence Springborg says people would not be allowed to drink treated sewerage if the Coalition wins the next election.
"I'd prefer not to be drinking it, absolutely. I'd prefer to be drinking some water that's supplied to farmers in the west of here or even water that's come out of our coal beds to the west of here as well. No, I don't think I'd be very happy about it," he said.
Toowoomba Mayor Di Thorley says it will cost more than double the council's water recycling project to have water piped from coal seam gas mines in the Surat Basin.
[This is according to the Mayor's figures which have not been independently costed - her costings for the pipeline for the gas water are clearly inflated when you read the NWC application.]
"Well, I hope they're going to have a big cheque book if they get into power because it's going to cost an awful lot of money and there's a whole heap of work," she said.
[More scare tactics - will it cost more than $136 million for the Mayor's controversial project - $70 million + $66 million for the RO waste stream disposal upon Acland Coal closure or earlier.]
"And then I wonder what's going to happen to all the salt that's going to be left out there while everybody takes water out of this and we lay it out on some of the good farming land for evaporation ponds, or is there going to be a miracle cure?"
[What about the Mayor needing 600 hectares of evaporation ponds for her recycled sewage project if Acland Coal doesn't take the RO waste stream. What happens when Acland Coal closes - where will her RO waste stream go then?]
See - Mayor Thorley clearly on the defensive.
posted by Concerned Ratepayer at 7:04 AM
4 Comments:
Is that the best the Mayor can do. Water will cost more if you don't back her. Is that all you have Mayor? You might as well concede defeat.
It would cost me hundreds of thousands to relocate to another City to avoid what you have to offer.
I will happily pay twice the amount for water for my family and tenants who occupy the houses I own.
9:28 PM, March 17, 2006
I have a miracle cure for the mayor - it's called the council elections in 2008!
11:07 PM, March 17, 2006
$41,000 for a book to tell us the facts that should have been told freely to rate payers through the media. That is $41,000 that could have been used to clean the public pool that is being neglected by The Toowoomba City Council.
What a waste of rate payers money. Lets hope we have water left in our dams when the council election comes up in 2008 so we still have a community here to vote them out.
10:00 PM, March 19, 2006
It's a complete disgrace.
3:44 PM, March 20, 2006
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