7.30 Report - Effluent happens ...
Nothing much new from the discussion on the ABC's 7.30 Report last evening.
Premier Beattie speaks lovingly of his bottle of NEWater like it's his favourite beer.
Bruce Flegg, the doctor, is obviously not going to tell you that the pharmaceuticals he prescribes may be harmful the second time around.
Even Greg Leslie made an appearance (sans 5 year old or is she almost 7 now?)
A prize should surely go to the person who can decipher Mayor Thorley's comment:
"It will be all over Australia that we'll have some influence, not only on us, but us on reverse back over the nation."
Huh .... who is she reversing back over ...
posted by Concerned Ratepayer at 9:10 AM
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In the Chronicle today, Mayor Thorley hints at trying to revive the carcass of her Water Futures project.
She seems to think Premier Beattie's Singapore style democracy will work in Toowoomba.
Fundamental error.
Premier Beattie had his early election and doesn't face the voters again until 2009 (if he's still around!). Mayor Thorley is on the run down to the Toowoomba City Council elections next year.
Premier Beattie's decision to cancel the March poll pushes the issue of drinking recycled water to the Council elections. Mayor Thorley seems to want to help it on its way.
By trying to resuscitate a dead project (which would have bankrupted the city), she is sealing her political fate.
Does she think the Federal government will give her funding now, notwithstanding the July 2006 referendum result? Or perhaps she thinks Premier Beattie will fund it - except he's gone cap in hand to the Feds for funding for his own recycled water project.
10:36 AM, January 30, 2007
From ABC News
Separate water treatment plant for Toowoomba unlikely
[Anna to Thorley - you had your chance and you blew it!]
30 January 2007
The Queensland Government says it is unlikely a separate treatment plant will be built to provide Toowoomba with its own recycled drinking water.
The Government will add recycled water to Wivenhoe Dam late next year, and Toowoomba will be connected to the dam as part of the south-east water grid.
Residents last year rejected a council plan to add recycled water to the city's own dams.
Infrastructure Minister Anna Bligh says it is unlikely that plan will be resurrected.
"The decision in relation to Toowoomba isn't just about costs, it's about long-term water security," she said.
"If you're connected to the Wivenhoe-Somerset system, then your water supplies are guaranteed into the future as part of the water grid.
"That was really the major thinking behind our decision in relation to Toowoomba."
12:58 PM, January 30, 2007
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