News - January 2010
9 hours ago - The $1 billion earmarked for the second stage of the Food Bowl Modernisation Project should be spent on a massive buyback of environmental water and not on ...
www.sheppnews.com.au/news_1136843.aspx
7 hours ago - In comparison, an investment of $1bn planned for the Stage Two Food Bowl project ... But the Victorian Minister for Water, Tim Holding, said the Food Bowl ...
www.theaustralian.com.au/news/nation/.../story-e6frg6nf-1225823060487
1 hour ago - “Melbourne would've been dry today if strict water-saving measures hadn't been ... Pipelines and dams were among the most expensive options, he said. ...
watersanity.com/?p=855
47 minutes ago - MITCHELL Shire Council has hit out at the State Government's plan to regularly pump water to Melbourne through the north south pipeline. ...
www.starnewsgroup.com.au/story/84624
11 minutes ago - Shadow minister for country water resources Peter Walsh said the north-south pipeline was a bad plan from the start. ''John Brumby's Government is so ...
www.theage.com.au/.../waterbill-rise-quietly-pays-for-70m-upgrade-20100123-mrqw.html
23 Jan 2010 ... HOUSEHOLDS will pay hundreds of dollars extra for water as state governments splash $9 billion of taxpayer funds on energy-guzzling ...
www.theaustralian.com.au/.../water-charges-are-set-to-spiral-in-desalination-squeeze/story-e6frg6nf-1225822705341
13 hours ago - ... involving the taking of water for the north-south pipeline had been appalling. ... “We believe Mr Brumby has promised the Commonwealth 100GL of water ...
www.vic.liberal.org.au/.../BRUMBY-RELUCTANTLY-RELEASES-WATER-BUSINESS-CASE.aspx
5 hours ago - ... out some criticism to the State Government, calling its new fire-rating signage "disgraceful" and its current north-south pipeline strategy wasteful. ...
telegraph.seymour.net.au/
20 hours ago - A FORMER prominent water chief has called on the Victorian Government to be. ... instead of taking it to Melbourne through the 70km north-south pipeline. ...
www.weeklytimesnow.com.au/article/2010/01/21/150611_water.html
11 posts - 9 authors - Last post: 7 hours ago
These lakes have always had salt
water periods even as recorded by Charles Sturt.
... Building of a
pipeline to
Melbourne for the first time ever.
...
www.railpage.com.au/f-p1378001.htm
1 hour ago - ... and are still upset with how the Brumby government handled the development process. ... "Having a new source of water that is not dependent on rainfall, ... "We've got orders for the pipeline and power cable in place with local ...
22 hours ago - ... on taking 10 billion litres of the water quality reserve to Melbourne, via the north-south pipeline, to be used for the luxury of watering gardens. ...
rivheraldechuca.net/readstory/read.asp?id=1136356
16 posts - 12 authors - Last post: 7 hours ago
i think the past week is evidence enough that Brumby and his Laws don't work. ... about "increasing the water grid"? So the word 'pipeline' is not popular. ...
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5 hours ago - ... A recycled water pipe should be an option for Melbourne ... The water has been allocated from 766 gigalitres purchased by the Federal Government to date ...
watersanity.com/?p=845
20 posts - 20 authors - Last post: 14 hours ago
Not build
pipelines from nothing, ignoring all other options. Not corrupt planning processes that leave entire
..... By Another
Brumby crisis. Re:Fix the TRAINS By Get ready for the spin
... Re:Urban
Water By Elections coming
...
www.sunshine.asn.au/component/option,com_fireboard/.../limitstart,0/
21 hours ago - Mr Brumby should make a stand _ which is with the state's right _ to disallow the sale of water out of each district, otherwise it will only take a few ...
news.mcmedia.com.au/news_1135601.aspx
13 hours ago - Sugarloaf pipeline · Jan Beer. Premier Brumby and Water Minister Holding ... There are absolutely no restrictions on water usage in Melbourne households. ...
cgn.org.au/dp/node/1026
20 hours ago - meet our growing
water needs, without this
pipeline *
Melbourne – it's time we stood up against this destructive project! This will mark the launch of a new
...
www.3cr.org.au/events/north-south-
pipeline-community-action -
Cached6 days ago - ... and the controversial north-south pipeline as the main justification for relaxing ... ''In flagging the possibility of easing Melbourne's water restrictions the ... Mr Northe said current water storage levels would enable Melbourne, ...
sale.yourguide.com.au/news/local/news/.../water.../1726018.aspx - Cached
5 hours ago - “It is now openly acknowledged that the water from the stressed Goulburn River to be pushed through the new pipeline is not needed by Melbourne consumers at ...
www.liberal.org.au/news.php?Id=4540
5 hours ago - “What is worse is the fact that Melbourne may never need water from the pipeline as the city's dams have almost enough water sitting in them today to last ...
www.vic.nationals.org.au/news/Article.aspx?ID=9914
16 hours ago - Of course, the urban authorities (Melbourne Water, Coliban Water and Central Highlands Water) are the chief beneficiaries with their carryover and pipelines ...
www.countrynews.com.au/story.asp?TakeNo=201001181956166
17 Jan 2010 ... Firemen angry at political 'stunt'. PETER KER January 18, 2010. INTERNAL tensions have struck Country Fire Authority crews in some of ...
m.theage.com.au/.../firemen-angry-at-political-stunt-20100117-medd.html - 37 minutes ago
9 hours ago - I can safely speak on behalf of Melbourne's enormous community of .... sources to provide clean power and desalinated water to more sustainable cities, farms, ... and should not be taken away, via the north-south pipeline, to Melbourne. ...
www.theage.com.au/.../knuckleheaded-decisions-20100115-mcj0.html?skin...
9 hours ago - ... and the controversial north-south pipeline as the main justification for relaxing ... ''In flagging the possibility of easing Melbourne's water restrictions the ... Mr Northe said current water storage levels would enable Melbourne, ...
sale.yourguide.com.au/news/local/news/general/water.../1726018.aspx
5 hours ago - Anti-pipeline protesters and the Victorian Farmers Federation raised questions ... "How many years of reserve water does Mr Holding want for Melbourne, ...
www.weeklytimesnow.com.au/article/2010/01/14/148841_water.html
8 minutes ago - ENCIRCLING Melbourne with a recycled-water pipeline should be a priority for the Brumby Government, according to Victoria's peak farming lobby. ...
www.watoday.com.au/.../water.../call-for-recycled-water-pipeline-20100113-m6zh.html
53 minutes ago - On March 8, 1995, Mr Brumby, then opposition leader, assured the House that ... just weeks from seeing the first water flow down the north-south pipeline. ...
www.watoday.com.au/.../more-unfulfilled-promises-theyre-part-of-the-pain-20100112-m4nl.html
1 hour ago - Michel Masson, CEO, Yarra Trams, Melbourne ... We're going to get water from the north-south pipeline whether we need it or not. Who cares about the farmers ...
www.theage.com.au/.../a-call-for-mercy-and-charity-20100113-m6ul.html
5 minutes ago - JOHN Brumby must be getting used to the summertime blues. ... services such as public transport, power and water as poor or appalling, ... to Melbourne down that controversial pipeline might not be necessary for the city after all. ...
www.theage.com.au/.../failures-put-heat-back-on-brumby-20100112-m4pz.html
1 hour ago - Melbourne is not going to run out of water without the north south pipeline. According to a press release dated January 12,Melburnians consumed 357 billion ...
www.3aw.com.au/blogs/3aw-generic...co...water.../20100112-m40u.html
4 hours ago - ... the north-south pipeline takes water away from those areas to Melbourne. ... sits awkwardly next to the Brumby Government's plan to take water out of ...
sl.farmonline.com.au/news/state/agribusiness-and...water.../1722792.aspx
3 hours ago - In the future, water will be required via the Brumby pipeline grid to service the ever-increasing urban population. Gary Duke and the NVI have caused ...
www.countrynews.com.au/story.asp?TakeNo=201001111923256
14 minutes ago - ... priority'' regions for returning water to the environment, just weeks before the north-south pipeline takes water away from those areas to Melbourne. ...
www.theage.com.au/.../state-canberra-at-odds-on-water-priority-20100111-m2ok.html
10 hours ago - JAN BEER, PLUG THE PIPE: This extra water going down the pipeline will be ... Conveniently for the Brumby Government, an election is due at the start of ...
www.abc.net.au/7.30/content/2010/s2788596.htm
17 hours ago - Adding the desalination plant and the north-south pipeline will bring fresh costs ... Last October, John Brumby raised the question of where water ...
m.theage.com.au/.../country-pays-a-high-price-to-slake-the-citys-thirst-20100109-lzrz.html
The Victorian government has spent thousands of dollars trying to convince the people that the North South pipeline was a win win win ...
lilydale-yarra-valley-leader.whereilive.com.au/.../opinion-sugarloaf-pipeline-a-loser/
26 minutes ago - This week, he said the desalination plant and the pipeline were Melbourne's ''path out of water restrictions''. He would not confirm restrictions would be ...
www.nationaltimes.com.au/.../the-government-is-porkbarrelling-over-pipeline-20100105-
5 minutes ago - THERE are two reasons for Melbourne's water shortage: the huge ... Please, John Brumby, turn on the pipeline and do not hold back on desalination. ...
www.theage.com.au/.../water-companies-are-the-winners-20100105-ls8b.html?.
5 minutes ago - The findings have prompted claims the pipeline water could be better used elsewhere, and created an conundrum for the Brumby Government over Melbourne's ...
www.theage.com.au/.../city-will-not-need-pipe-water-20100103-lnb8.html
29 minutes ago - "I'm sure Mr Brumby and Minister Holding would desire nothing better than to ... At the moment they have 10.8 gigalitres of Wimmera-Mallee pipeline water ...
17 minutes ago - THE controversial north-south pipeline could be called into action as early as ... The Brumby Government yesterday hit back hard after the Victorian Farmers ... it's saving more water than any other project anywhere in Australia and ...
m.theage.com.au/.../northsouth-pipe-ready-to-fight-fires-20100105-lsct.html
10 hours ago - DESPITE getting a taste of the rain that has NSW farmers hoping for an end to the drought, irrigators in Victoria and South Australia may not yet see any ...
PETER KER | Relaxed water restrictions look likely for Melbourne before the November state election.
3 hours ago - The findings have prompted claims the pipeline water could be better used elsewhere, and created an conundrum for the Brumby Government over Melbourne's ...
www.3aw.com.au/blogs/3aw-generic-blog/...water.../20100104-lnvq.html
2 hours ago - Pipeline debate: State Government set to ease water restrictions · Bluescope caught in Thai pollution case · City will not need pipe water ...
www.smh.com.au/.../pipeline-debate-state-government-set-to-ease-water-restrictions-20100104-lp1a.html
1 hour ago - Melbourne won't need any water from the $750 million North-South Pipeline. I'm reading: Join me in saying "I Told You So"Tweet this! Posted by Jayne ...
ourgreatsouthernland.blogspot.com/.../join-me-in-saying-i-told-you-so.html
1 hour ago - The pipeline from the Goulburn River has been built to provide water for ... Foals caught in mass brumby slaughter · Conditions ease after wild storm ...
12 hours ago - Opponents of Victoria's controversial North South Pipeline say new figures show the pipeline may not be needed to supply Melbourne with water. ...
ballarat.iprime.com.au/.../pipeline-protesters-say-new-figures-prove-their-point,248501
7 hours ago - MELBOURNE may never need water from the controversial north-south pipeline, with a stocktake showing existing storages and minimal rainfall should easily ...
wotnews.com.au/like/melbourne_will_not_need_piped_water/4436709/
1 post - 1 author - Last post: 10 hours ago
New analysis of
water supplies and projected rainfalls before Victoria's desalination plant comes online suggests the state's capital
Melbourne may never
...
7 hours ago - 23 Mar 09 | Lindsay Fox's plan to establish Melbourne's second ... believes contain damning projections on water availability for the north-south pipeline. ...
sl.farmonline.com.au/news/nationalrural/agribusiness-and-general/?page...
1 hour ago - Melbourne seems likely to have relaxed water restrictions before this year's state ... insisting that supply from the north-south pipeline will be needed. ...
6 hours ago - Opponents of the pipeline say current water storages are sufficient to supply ... Foals caught in mass brumby slaughter · Teen accused of $2m bank fraud ...
www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/01/04/2784752.htm
6 hours ago - "So it is completely reasonable for the people of Melbourne to expect that there would be water available to them through the northsouth pipeline." ...
17 hours ago - MORE than 90 per cent were angry that the north-south pipeline takes water from the bush for suburban Melbourne. 63 per cent said the planned Wonthaggi ...
3 hours ago - He hit out at speculation that water from the pipeline would not be needed in ... Brumby wouldn't have stood over the farmers if there wasn't money or votes ...
26 minutes ago - A TYPICAL tradesman on the desalination project in Wonthaggi is set to earn about $150000 a year for a four-day week under a deal that has also seen the ...
18 hours ago - We have just had published the latest water statistics figures, today, stating that the North-South Pipeline did not need to be built. Another $750 million wasted! ... Why Brumby and Kosky haven't been sacked in disgrace is beyond me. ...