Secret toilet to tap plan for SEQ water ...
Press release by Qld Coalition:
Secret toilet to tap plan for SEQ water
2 June 2006
Author/Owner: Lawrence Springborg
South-East Queensland households could be drinking recycled sewage effluent under a secret Beattie Government plan.
Queensland Coalition Leader Lawrence Springborg today demanded the Premier "come clean" on the plan.
Mr Springborg said water planning documents had identified a new, "major source addition" water supply from 2008.
"It’s now becoming apparent that ‘new’ water supply is treated sewage from Brisbane."
"Does the Beattie Government plan to use the western corridor recycled water pipeline to pump treated effluent into Somerset and Wivenhoe dams? The people of South-East Queensland deserve to be told about this plan. They deserve to have a say in this plan. But no, the Beattie Government wants none of that. It wants to keep this secret."
Mr Springborg said the recycled water going into the pipeline would be the tertiary treated effluent that is currently pumped into Moreton Bay.
"The Beattie Government told us the western corridor pipeline would be used by industry and agriculture replacing fresh water they now take from South-East Queensland’s dams. Now we learn that, it also plans to pump the same effluent into those dams."
"This is the result of eight years of Beattie Labor mismanagement and inaction. A failure to plan and build water infrastructure, which now leaves South-East Queensland in crisis," Mr Springborg said.
"It should never have been allowed to get to this."
Source - Qld Coalition press release - Secret toilet to tap plan for SEQ water.
posted by Concerned Ratepayer at 4:32 PM
1 Comments:
The referendum does count. It's an opportunity to pass judgement on Mayor Thorley and the Council.
It is not clear whether Mayor Thorley will abide by the results of the referendum.
Should she decide not to, things will certainly get interesting. The next step would probably be to have an administrator appointed.
A majority No vote takes us to the next stage - to see whether Council will abide by the referendum decision or seek funding elsewhere - and to have the other water source options examined in detail.
Every No vote is important - it's important to send a message that the ratepayers of Toowoomba are fed up with the lies and deception and aren't going to take any more.
A decisive No vote on 29 July will send that message.
9:47 PM, June 05, 2006
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