Toowoomba Regional Council - legacy or lunacy ...
Premier Anna Bligh has set the tone:
"If the [coal seam gas] water can be treated effectively and then transported efficiently, I would like to get this as drinking water to regional towns and Toowoomba."
New Toowoomba Regional Council Mayor Peter Taylor thinks it might just be all a bit too hard:
"There are some significant costs in reducing the salt from the water and of course the disposal of that salt, and transporting that water over long distances to get it to any town, are expensive."
Many will remember the efforts of senior staff within the Toowoomba City Council who stated at public meetings that coal seam gas water was poisonous. It was part of their 'do anything, say anything' approach to force people in Toowoomba to drink recycled water.
It didn't work.
And how embarrassed were they when the State and Federal governments granted Dalby funding to use coal seam gas water for its town water supply?
The Toowoomba Regional Council will discuss water source issues this week.
The new Council has a choice - create a lasting legacy as the Council which took the steps to drought-proof the region OR become simply another Council that has had the wool pulled over its eyes by the bureaucrats who will stop at nothing to introduce potable reuse to Toowoomba.
The choice is yours ...
posted by Concerned Ratepayer at 8:03 AM
6 Comments:
Taylor won't do anything, wait and see.
It is a disgrace in todays Chronicle on the front page to see that Toowoomba has won the tidy towns award. So many council employees there (a great expense to us - why) and also that Thorley has herself in the photo. Why? That women has nothing to do with Toowoomba anymore, just because she lives in Tasmania, doesn't give her the right to be in the photo.
Clive Berghofer would have more right to be in it then her!
9:27 AM, April 21, 2008
"I would like to congratulate the town of Toowoomba for winning the 2008 Australia's Tidiest Town award," Rudd said.
It's a city.
10:27 AM, April 21, 2008
However distateful the woman is, she was mayor when the judging took place. The photo of her in the Chronicle says it all - arms draped over others while everyone else looks relatively dignified. Thank goodness she's just a bad memory.
10:38 AM, April 21, 2008
This is a great water source and provides the ability to drought-proof Toowoomba and a number of towns with any surplus going into Wivenhoe. But just watch the Toowoomba Regional Council poo-poo it (pun intended) because the bureaucrats are fixated with forcing people to use recycled water.
3:52 PM, April 21, 2008
I have e-mailed the article regarding the supply of water to Toowoomba and western Qld towns to the Chronicle. In my opinion, this news should be on the front page of the next available Chronicle. I also think that the
new Toowoomba Councillors and the reporters at the Chronicle should go out to see Richard Cottee at the Gas fields and ascertain for themselves the potential for clean water that exists now. Please don't foist the recycled sewerage water for drinking purposes on this long suffering community. We now have the title of Australia's tidiest town. Don't let it become known as the City of unsafe drinking water.
3:52 PM, April 21, 2008
Email it to all the Councillors too!
3:55 PM, April 21, 2008
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