Toowoomba to name and shame ...
Brisbane says it won't.
From WIN News:
HIGH WATER SHAME LIST
Warning from council
Toowoomba City Council is warning water abusers to be ready to be publicly humiliated. The worst of the city's high water users will soon be published in the Chronicle, council warning every culprit will be fully investigated.
See - name and shame game.
From News.com.au (annotated):
Brisbane water abuser privacy safe
4 May 2006
BRISBANE Lord Mayor Campbell Newman said today he has no plans to name and shame water abusers following similar moves by Toowoomba City Council.
Residents in Toowoomba, west of Brisbane, are being threatened with public humiliation as part of council moves to punish those wasting limited water supplies.
Mr Newman said Brisbane City Council had been active in seeking out water abusers, and if the situation became more desperate “well anything's on the table”.
“But at the moment certainly (naming and shaming) is not under consideration in Brisbane,” he said.
Toowoomba Council's water and wastewater chairman Joe Ramia today said the city was in “dire straits”, with a total of 23.3 per cent of usable water in its three dams.
[Deputy Mayor Ramia will probably never give up on the scare tactics, notwithstanding Director of Engineering Services Kevin Flanagan's apparent admission at a meeting yesterday that Toowoomba currently has sufficient water to last until 2015.]
He said some people had been found to have “very, very” high water usage and the top 30 water abusers would have their names published in the local newspaper, The Toowoomba Chronicle.
But Mr Ramia said before that happened, the council would thoroughly investigate why residents were using so much water.
“Our people will be speaking with them and encouraging them to reform their ways, and if nothing changes ... and they're caught abusing the system then and only then will their name appear,” he said.
But Queensland Premier Peter Beattie said people were already shamed when caught out flouting water restrictions.
“People can in fact be shamed if you like when they are issued with a notice – if they're breaching the rules that in itself is a naming and shaming,” he said.
See - Brisbane won't play the name and shame game.
posted by Concerned Ratepayer at 8:48 PM
3 Comments:
Well if the Chronicle is about to do that then they should be expecting visits to the court rooms when they get sued.
12:09 AM, May 05, 2006
The TCC should be a shamed to even think of doing such a thing. I personally don't care who they are, but they do need to educated on water usage, and shaming them publiclly is only going to hurt Cr Ramia and the TCC's reputation. Which seems to be floating to higher places these days.
I think the TCC is in dire straits, and is using what ever tactics and I say criminal ethics to cover up their blunder.
If the TCC wants to shame and blame, Then here are the First two on the list:
1. Mayor Thorley.
2. Cr Ramia.
They should be a shamed to even speak to us for what they are putting this town through.
I have also researched this decision, and the The Chronicle would be liable for prosecution if the any of the named are published. It goes against the privact Act, and would indeed hold up in court. So The Chronicle better think twice before accepting any bribes from the TCC to publish the list.
12:22 AM, May 05, 2006
The council should be telling those property holders that they will turn their water off, if they don't lower their usage. That would make more sense, and bring these people to their sense that you just can't waste the water.
3:04 PM, May 05, 2006
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