Why the blogs worry the government ...
If the amount of time that the Toowoomba City Council and the State government spend reading the blogs is any indication, then they are indeed concerned about this form of media and its ability to reach readers and offer a different view to the government authorised PR spin served up through the main stream media.
If they're trying to shut the blogs down and yet can't stop reading them themselves, the blogs must be doing something right ...
posted by Concerned Ratepayer at 2:05 PM
12 Comments:
I think they visit and get worried about all the people about to vote for Snow.
7:11 PM, January 31, 2008
Whh would the State Government woory about Snow getting in. The decision to Toowoomba' water problems have been made...and now or that decision will be implemented.
Should Snow get into power, he can meet with the Premier all he wants, but the decision will not be overturned. It was the recommendation of the taskforce. Snow making noise about it now is just hot air.
6:58 AM, February 01, 2008
In a letter to the editor today I said:
It is a pity to see debate in the first election of our Regional Council becoming dominated by Toowoomba water.
Anna Bligh’s announced pipeline to Cressbrook Dam wasn’t the recommendation of the Toowoomba Water Supply Task Force which recommended a pipeline to Perseverance Dam first and then build a dam at Emu Creek second. The premier of the time (Beattie) said purified sewage was an ‘Armageddon’ solution and he hadn’t announced water assets of councils joining the SEQ water grid would be taken by the state.
This latest announcement is not supported by operating costs or construction costs to rank it against other options.
The Darling Downs Water Grid is growing and already comprises recycled water to Millmerran Power Station, committed to Acland Coal Mine and used by irrigators.
There are pipelines to Oakey, Highfields and Crows Nest, deep bores at Oakey, Hampton, Cooby Dam and Wetalla and the city basalt bores. Regional towns have independent water supplies. This is in addition to private tanks, dams and bores, Cooby, Cressbrook and Perseverance Dams.
The issue is whether we accept Anna Bligh’s solution without discussion or stay out of the SEQ Water Grid. According to the Premier forced amalgamations would give regional councils ‘clout’ but already the State is dictating.
The outgoing Toowoomba Mayor dividing the community yet again on the issue of water at this late stage of her term doesn’t serve any useful purpose.
It isn’t about water. It’s about the new regional council not being dominated by a mayor, councillors and bureaucrats representing the State Government on amalgamation, water and regional planning rather than the people.
Cr Snow Manners
7:17 AM, February 01, 2008
There is no decision made.
The government is going to spend $20M to investigate the feasibility of a pipeline to our dams.
That's a long way from building a pipeline for $200M!
The people power will win again and the government will have to listen as they are the next to face an election.
Kerry Shine's seat is already in doubt because his finger prints are all over this lastest stunt with the Mayor's help.
8:22 AM, February 01, 2008
Anonymous gets it wrong - that's not what the report says.
10:23 AM, February 01, 2008
Anonymous at 6.58am I was referring to
10:26 AM, February 01, 2008
Of course it worries the Government. They seem to have control of the newspapers, radio and TV and the blogs allow honest discussion of various topics that the Government does not want you to know. Why is this so? in a so called Democratic country. In a Communist country you would be taken away in the middle of the night and shot. Socialists just lie about everything to manipulate the people. Just see what they come up with until 15th March!
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