The 4350water Blog highlights some of the issues relating to proposals for potable reuse in Toowoomba and South East Qld. 4350water blog looks at related political issues as well.
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posted by Concerned Ratepayer at 7:48 AM
For many years, the 4350water blog has informed readers of plans by the Toowoomba City Council (now Toowoomba Regional Council) and the Qld government to introduce recycled water for drinking in Toowoomba. It has also looked at the issue from a State and Federal perspective and dealt with related State and Federal political issues. There continues to be a need for the Toowoomba Regional Council to be completely transparent in its dealings with the ratepayers and residents of Toowoomba. There also continues to be a need for open debate on the benefits and risks of potable reuse and long-term studies on the effects on humans of drinking recycled water. Coal seam gas water is emerging as a possible alternate water source for some uses for the region. The 4350water blog is a collective effort and thanks go to its many contributors.
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22 Comments:
Where is the Labor candidate?...
2:58 PM, November 03, 2007
Word on the grape vine is that the Family First candidate has forgotten to put in his occupation on his form and his nomination might be invalid.
A new draw may have to happen?
3:01 PM, November 03, 2007
Someone noticed!
The ALP was left out of the Chronicle article.
3:53 PM, November 03, 2007
See - Chronicle leaves ALP out of race
3:57 PM, November 03, 2007
Ian Macfarlane holds an 18.8% margin for the Liberals from the 2004 election.
Would seem hard to unseat.
4:05 PM, November 03, 2007
Nothing unusual from the Chronicle. I'd be amazed if they got it right.
10:16 PM, November 03, 2007
Which one of these will stand up and fight for what is of most importance to the Groom electorate?
We need a reliable sustainable water supply.
We have voted to say that we do not want recycled sewage water and yet the Labour Party and Liberal Party would bring it to you in a heart beat.
We have other options and they should be done instead of subjecting this community to more worry and angst by these same people.
*In Sydney recently we read where a man was murdered because some hot head got it into his head that this man could not water even though it was his allotted watering day. He battered him to death. I lay the blame at the feet of people like our 6 pack of Singapore Sewer Sippers and politicians both state and federal who continually talk nothing but gloom and doom. All the time they are to blame for the disastrous state our water supplies are in. They have raked in our taxes and built no substantial infrastructure for the communities they have sworn to serve.
We have had to wear the burden of restrictions and at the same listen to the crap about global warming.
It is hard to believe when we are to enter into a wet season. This is information from our weather bureau.
The smart money would be to build Emu Creek Dam.
A fact to remember is that recycled sewage water will not deliver much water in the time of drought and that it does not have the data to prove that it's safe.
Shame, Shame, Shame.
Please vote for people who will listen and who will stop this propaganda being peddled for the big companies who stand to make millions from experimental techknowledgies.
4:58 AM, November 04, 2007
what are the views of the independents?
11:45 AM, November 04, 2007
How could the Chronicle possibly leave out the Labor candidate? Labor is the only party they support wholeheartedly judging by the recent water furore.
12:13 PM, November 04, 2007
because it's the chronicle!
12:29 PM, November 04, 2007
The full list from ABC News:
2007 BALLOT PAPER (9 Candidates)
COLLINS, Pauline The Greens
VOLKER, Grahame Arthur Independent
JONES, Irene Citizens Electoral Council
FINDLAY, Peter Charles Family First
BERRY, Rob Independent
NAJEEB, Shalina Democrats
MEIBUSCH, Chris Australian Labor Party
JEANNERET, Rod Independent
MACFARLANE, Ian Liberal
11:28 AM, November 05, 2007
Also from ABC News:
Groom (QLD)Toowoomba and Darling Downs
Very Safe Liberal 18.8%
MP
Ian Macfarlane (LIB) since 1998.
Minister for Industry, Tourism and Resources.
Profile
Rich agricultural district covering 6,452 sq.km on the Darling Downs in southern Queensland. It includes the regional city of Toowoomba and rural communities to the west and south.
Redistribution
Loses Clifton Shire in the south to Maranoa, the Liberal margin dropping from 18.9% to a still safe 18.8%.
History/Trivia
New name adopted for the old electorate of Darling Downs in 1984. It is named after Sir Littleton Groom, member for Darling Downs (1901-29, 1931-36). He is famous in Australian political history for using his casting vote as Speaker against the Bruce government in a critical division in 1929, forcing an early election at which the Bruce government was defeated, the Prime Minister losing his own seat. Darling Downs was won for the National Party in 1972 by Tom McVeigh, holding the seat through its change of name in 1984, until his resignation from Parliament to take the job of Queensland Agent-General in London in 1988. McVeigh had been one of the leading 'Joh for Canberra' Nationals, so there was some satisfaction in the Liberal Party when its candidate Bill Taylor won the seat at the by-election. Taylor held the seat until his retirement in 1998, the Liberal Party then retaining the seat in the face of a challenge from both the National Party and One Nation. Taylor reappeared on the public stage in 2001 as the Administrator of Christmas Island during the Tampa 'crisis', a reminder of the odd places politicians end up after they retire.
Main Candidates
Age 52, Ian Macfarlane is a former President of the Queensland Grain growers Association and the Grains Council of Australia, and also a former Executive Member of the National Farmers Federation. First elected in 1998, he was appointed Minister for Small Business in the Howard government's December 2000 ministerial re-shuffle and elevated to Cabinet after the 2001 election as Minister for Industry, Tourism and Resources.
His Labor opponent is Chris Meibusch is a plaintiff lawyer and President of the Downs and South Western Law Association.
Assessment
Safe Liberal retain.
11:32 AM, November 05, 2007
To The misinformed person commenting on Building Emu Creek Dam and having a go at the government about the state of the water crisis.
Who are you and what do you know?
You obviously are looking through rose coloured glasses,Just answer one question why on this earth would you say that we should build Emu Creek Dam when we can't fill the Dams we have?People like you just amuse me.In case you don't know we are in a drought don't get rain and can't fill the Dams we have already let alone building another.
How about you use your time to build your intellect or maybe Knowledge on the to and fro and the FACTS on water issues than open your mouth.
Who are you you say?
I have helped building the Western Corridor Recycling Project and i am proud of it,I have a lot more knowledge now than i had before but i reacted a little differently to the recycled water debate to yourself because i Knew as much as you NIL.Do yourself a favour,study it from start to finish then comment otherwise pull your head in.Why? Because it's a field i know a lot more about than you and chances are i always will....
6:37 PM, November 24, 2007
Yeah right, the Labor party is Qld is not responsible for the water crisis in southeast Qld. Sure. Still laughing.
7:48 PM, November 24, 2007
Lots of people in Toowoomba have been studying recycled water and the games governments play for over two years now.
7:50 PM, November 24, 2007
So the government was employing unskilled workers on the recycled water project? On the job training in recycled water. Great.
7:53 PM, November 24, 2007
So Bryan Meredith is it you responsible for the deletions????
11:10 PM, November 25, 2007
sure it's Bryan
9:58 AM, November 26, 2007
yes the vote to bring in recycled water was weak - only 38% wanted it and that number was inflated by the council's scare campaign.
10:00 AM, November 26, 2007
Just not sure how "still laughing" could honestly say that any party had something to do with the water crisis you are A moron.
1:03 PM, November 26, 2007
Hmm, the Rudd/Goss decison not to build Wolfdene. The failure to act on falling dam levels early enough. No, not the state government's fault at all.
1:24 PM, November 27, 2007
It seems pretty logical to be blaming the Governments for lack of whatever.
However it may have not registered with you that building the dams does not automatically fill them.As said in a previous story we cannot fill the dams we have got let alone building more.
Im sure if you were in power Australia would be 1 big dam and the reason why it wouldn't be filled would be because of previous governments.
Yeah right!!!!!
7:53 PM, November 27, 2007
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