News - August 2009
''It's reasonable to say that a lot of the current drought of the last 12 to 13 years is due to ongoing global warming,'' said the bureau's Bertrand Timbal. ...
JESSICA Weir says traditional Aboriginal owners along the Murray River taught her that ''if we look after the river, the river will look after everything ..
17 hours ago - Opponents of the north-south pipeline are doubtful there will be enough water to flow down the pipe from the Goulburn River to Melbourne next year. ...
12 hours ago - Mr Holding said the pipeline, which is funded by Melbourne Water users, ... Next year, Melbourne will receive 75 billion litres of water down the pipeline, ...
Water shortfall, despite downpour. August 28, 2009 - 4:50PM. It rained, it poured yet Victoria's dams failed to receive much of a boost from this week's ..
6 hours ago - Water claims are blackmail. Done deal: the north-south pipeline is ready to go ... would be looted and redirected to Melbourne via the north-south pipeline. ...
6 hours ago - VICTORIAN Water Minister Tim Holding has vowed to reintroduce laws to divert water ... districts to Melbourne via the controversial north-south pipeline.
9 hours ago - NO MATTER how often the minister tries to spin the pipeline as a saviour of Melbourne's water shortages the numbers don't add up. ...
10 hours ago - LAYING 70 kilometres of pipeline through hostile territory was the easy part. Securing water rights for Victoria's controversial north-south pipe looms as the next challenge for the Brumby Government. The final piece of the pipe was ...
''The fact that this Government is boasting of an 'army' of PR spin doctors to conceal their failures is an insult to every Victorian,'' he said. ...
21 minutes ago - Liberal MP for Eastern Victoria Phil Davis said extracting more from the Thomson would place further stress on the river and the Gippsland Lakes, ...
13 hours ago - There is of course the water pipeline from Perth to Kalgoorlie, WA (~650km). ... bag it to melbourne - port phillip, where the Yarra comes out, ...
10 hours ago - Mr Ryan said the government had intended to redirect water to Melbourne through the north-south pipeline which was promised to the Snowy and Murray rivers. ...
21 hours ago - While Victorian Water Minister Tim Holding slammed the move as the Opposition ... degradation of Victoria's river systems and the north-south pipeline. ... “Melbourne Water is contributing $300 million to the irrigation upgrades, ..
1 hour ago - "The government's intention was to redirect water to Melbourne through the north-south pipeline despite it being promised to the Snowy and Murray rivers," ...
11 hours ago - Water maths don't hold water Mike Dalmau, Acheron Is it time for John Brumby and Tim Holding to go back to school and learn arithmetic? In opposing the north-south pipeline, we have always said the numbers don't add up. ...
12 hours ago - The Victorian Premier, John Brumby denies his government has a ... country water to be funnelled to Melbourne via a north-south pipeline will be challenged ...
4 hours ago - Stuck in the pipeline: North-South project doesn't hold water ... going to be screaming for water, won't be able to get it and Brumby will start the pumps. ...
7 hours ago - Melbourne's water storages are alarmingly low - with reservoirs at just 27.5% ... a 70km long pipeline over the great dividing range so it can pump water to ...
2 hours ago - ... down the amendment to the north-south pipeline, Water Minister Tim Holding has stated, ... The Brumby Government is trying to ram through major water .
2 hours ago - "The effect of it is to mean that Melbourne can't get its water from the north/south pipeline and that the environment can't get any of the benefits from ...
13 Aug 2009 ... The Victorian government is set to bypass the State Parliament to access water for its controversial pipeline from the state's north as the ...
10 hours ago - Water pipeline plan rejected. August 13, 2009 ... potentially preventing Melbourne from accessing water through the north-south pipeline. ...
18 hours ago - “Premier John Brumby must consider the recycling of water for Melbourne, ... “Mr Brumby's plans for the pipeline will suffer a major setback today, ...
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It is costing hundreds of millions of dollars, but the pipeline which is supposed to save Melbourne from running out of water has hit a major hurdle. ...
Labor mates' linked to lucrative winning tenders. Date: August 09 2009. Melissa Fyfe. METRO Trains Melbourne's successful bid for the lucrative contract to ...
8 minutes ago - SO the Brumby Government has used global warming to excuse itself from ... Government then justify the building and the huge expense of the north-south pipeline? With less rainfall projected, there will be no water to send to Melbourne. ...
28 minutes ago - Reversal of a pre-election water policy just before the former premier and ... JOHN Brumby shrugs away concerns of corruption in the Victorian ALP for one ...
11 hours ago - DEBT-ridden irrigators have been denied the right to sell their water as the state's ... No partner for Melbourne Water · Steve trips at pipeline madness ...
18 minutes ago - The Victorian Opposition hopes to use its numbers in the Upper House to stop the State Government pumping water to Melbourne through the north-south ...
42 minutes ago - PLANS to bring water to Melbourne through the north-south pipeline will face a new hurdle in Parliament next week, as the Coalition looks to put a dampener ...
42 minutes ago - WATER committed to the Snowy and Murray rivers would be redirected to Melbourne via the north-south pipeline. SAVINGS from stage two of the food bowl ...
4 minutes ago - ... will be robbed of water so the north-south pipeline can be supplied, the Opposition says. ... Terror raids reaction: Brumby moves to reassure Victorians ...
We must be wary. Christian values are catching. August 4, 2009 .... SURELY we must use water, along with other natural resources, much more cautiously. ...
9 hours ago - Federation Square City of Melbourne near Princes Bridge Yarra River side ... The folly of the State Government's North-South pipeline water policy will be ...
Increased rainfall in northern Victoria is needed if the pipe's water targets are to be met, and authorities are warning that the coming 12 months are ...
A journey by kayak down the Darling River in Australia from the Brisbane GPO to the Adelaide GPO ... Cry Me a River - Goulburn Trip · Darling - Murray Trip ...
10 hours ago - Steve trips at pipeline madness. Water follies: Steve Posselt plans to kayak and walk from Echuca to Melbourne in protest against the north-south pipeline. ...
13 hours ago - IF JOHN Brumby intends wholesale removal of trees within 10 metres of houses, .... The recycled water is, but it costs exactly the same as the safe drinking ...
23 hours ago - Household water bills are expected to more than double over the next five ... Mr Brumby said the project was fully funded and he did not expect this to be required. ... Rebuild Australian manufacturing · Stop the North South Pipeline ...
Slim chance Wally will be let loose with the hose · A glimpse of the future for Victoria's hilltops · Solar panel companies are feeling the heat ...
Steve Posselt's Cry Me A River Epic Trek Down The Goulburn and Murray River Started Today - 1 August 2009
THE multinational company behind Victoria's $3.5 billion desalination plant was fined by environment authorities earlier this year for illegally logging ...
35 minutes ago - Through measures to capture, use, cleanse and recycle that water, ... plant or a pipeline taking the dregs of water from the Goulburn River. ... One is left with the view that Mr Brumby does not want recycled water in his family home. ...
23 hours ago - Then, in early 2007, the power trio of Bracks, John Brumby and John Thwaites faced the unthinkable: Melbourne was running out of water. ...
5 minutes ago - Mr Brumby said the building of the desalination plant was the start of "the road map back from the harsh water restrictions" that have seen Melburnians cut ...
8 minutes ago - Water Minister Tim Holding said both water consortiums had spent tens of millions on ... ''Why is Mr Brumby's priority to support a losing bidder … when the ...
14 hours ago - If his desalination dream becomes a reality (and the Premier, his cabinet and his water advisers are supremely confident it will), Brumby's place in ...
19 hours ago - Victorian Premier John Brumby said this would secure Victoria's water supplies ... Pipeline, our new desalination plant will help ease water restrictions. ...
3 hours ago - IN “Pipeline will serve essential needs” (Letters, July 27), ... Unfortunately, the result of Brumby water policy is that Melburnians must face vastly ...
Rudd's 50000 'green jobs' pledge · Brumby's dream is far from watertight · Brumby's $3.5bn desal gamble · Solar panel companies are feeling the heat ...