BREAKING NEWS - Toowoomba knocks back recycled water plan ...
... Mayor Thorley concedes defeat.
From ABC News:
Toowoomba knocks back recycled water plan
29 July 2006
The Mayor of Toowoomba, Queensland's biggest inland city, has conceded defeat over a proposal to add recycled water to drinking supplies.
Toowoomba residents were asked to approve a plan to draw 25 per cent of the city's water from recycled effluent.
With 32,000 of 60,000 votes counted, 62 per cent of residents have voted against the proposal.
Lyle Shelton is one of three councillors who campaigned against the proposal and is encouraged by the early result.
"That's probably about what the 'no' case was expecting," he said.
A short time ago, Mayor Di Thorley conceded the city would not be drinking recycled water.
"At the end of the day, we still don't have a water project," she said.
She says it is now up to the Queensland Government to drought-proof the city.
Source - ABC News - NO case wins.
posted by Concerned Ratepayer at 8:41 PM
6 Comments:
The people have spoken!
1:29 AM, July 30, 2006
Amazing!
2:48 AM, July 30, 2006
Winner are grinner's and losers abuse so it seems.
We have other water and it will come in a year.
Wake up and open your ears and stop listening to the proper gander spilling out on Toowoomba City Hall.
You are in the same place you were going to be in if the Yes case had won. The Council water would not be here until 2013 and the emergency supplies will be applied as the Council well knows.
9:07 AM, July 30, 2006
The good thing about democracy is we all get to have a winge and whine when we lose but it doesn't take away the fact that we lost! Quit with the blaming of one or two people or are you just looking for some scapegoats because you didn't get your own way and were outvoted 3 to 1! Only fools try to fight a war they know they cannot win and now Beattie is going to make the same inane mistake!
12:10 PM, July 30, 2006
Dummy spits by those whose jobs are now gone!
12:11 PM, July 30, 2006
While Yes voters may feel frustrated, if you want to make comments using foul language, you should make them on your own blog (or start one for your comments).
If you want to use foul language, do it there. But it just shows the calibre of your argument.
What you witnessed was democracy in action.
12:22 PM, July 30, 2006
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