Commerce Qld - Federal funds not just for recycling ...

From the Chronicle:

Funds not just for recycling: Commerce Qld

29 June 2006

Commerce Queensland believes alternatives to Toowoomba City Council's recycling project could receive government subsidies similar to those that have been approved for recycling.

Commerce Queensland regional chairman Ken Murphy was commenting on the report, 'Shelton: Polling style is legitimate' (TC, 28/5, Page 3), which said an alternative to Water Futures – swapping underground irrigation entitlements for Toowoomba's treated effluent – was unlikely to get State and Federal Government subsidies.

However, Mr Murphy said he was confident alternatives to Water Futures could attract subsidies.

The Federal Government gives National Water Commission grants for groundbreaking and innovative projects and which could be demonstration projects for the rest of Australia.

"For instance, coal seam gas for Dalby has been given approval which shows there is funding available there,'' Mr Murphy said.

"In New South Wales and Victoria, groundwater swaps have received federal funding which shows those projects are innovative enough."

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