News - July 2009
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 ...
14 posts - 12 authors - Last post: 5 hours ago
Set up a new committee that will look into why Melbourne has no
water,
.... we'll be in real trouble and the State Labor Govt under grinning
Brumby is useless.
... the
pipeline from the north to feed the upper murray and all surrounding
...
8 hours ago - ... today raised concerns about the Brumby Government's long-term water strategy ... “The desal plant and pipeline project remove incentives to implement ...
1 hour ago - Premier John Brumby said household water restrictions would be gradually ... "This investment plus progress on the north-south pipeline . . . means our ...
1 hour ago - Water bills have been forecast to at least double to pay for major drought-busting projects, including desalination, but Mr Brumby said the cost would be ...
5 hours ago - PREMIER John Brumby has undergone a turbulent two years as the state's top ... Trying to fix a crumbling train service, pushing through unpopular water ... knee jerk reaction projects like Nth Sth Pipeline and desal plant without any ...
Editorial : Australia needs to avoid future housing price bubbles.
9 hours ago - Rain not helping lower Murray acid fight. Posted July 29, 2009 14:18:00 ... Mr Holmes has told a parliamentary inquiry it means water regulators, ..
29 Jul 2009 ... The last two days of the month are predicted to reach 16 and 17 degrees to round off what is expected to be Melbourne's fourth warmest July, ...
16 hours ago - Water entitlements of 446 gigalitres have been bought by the Federal Government as efforts are made to boost the ailing Murray.
19 hours ago - In a statement to the media, Goulburn-Murray Water says that the purchase is about 3000 megalitres more than the minimum required to maintain system ...
6 hours ago - IN his July 27 letter (“Pipeline will serve essential needs”), ... The information can be found on the Melbourne Water and other government websites. ...
18 hours ago - Yarra Valley Water and Melbourne Water were slammed for allowing six Boroondara golf clubs to use 842 megalitres from the Yarra River on their courses. ...
7 minutes ago - The north-south pipeline and the Wonthaggi desalination plant are ... John Brumby and Tim Holding have made it clear they don't care about the impact of ... tap after you've thrown out the full bucket of water so you can catch the drip. ...
9 hours ago - near Wonthaggi and the north-south pipeline from northern Victoria. "Thankfully, Melbourne Water is future-proofing. the upgrade so the option to create ...
8 hours ago - It advises that the Brumby government 'allows logging in five of Melbourne's ... This is the government which is moving water to the city, by pipeline, ...
7 hours ago - While he faces an upstream battle on the water he is also aware that the government is ... passionate against the Brumby Government's north-south pipeline. ...
2 hours ago - Labor argues its major water projects, including a controversial desalination plant on the Bass Coast and a pipeline to bring water to Melbourne from ...
14 hours ago - Melbourne's rapid growth is putting severe pressure on the state's resources. ... that favoured cities over country, such as the north-south water pipeline. ...
They told the Valley to give a bit of water to melbourne and we will save you all this ... Don't get me started on this pipeline....... absolutely stupid....it should never have .... Someone should be charged with stupiditry, Mr Brumby ...
18 minutes ago - Light at the end of the sewage pipeline for Gunnamatta. Monday, 27 July 2009 16:36. The Brumby Government has announced an upgrade to the Eastern Treatment ...
15 minutes ago - That change alone could save Melbourne up to 15 billion litres of water ... and north-south pipeline "could put this city in serious trouble", he said. ...
8 hours ago - NSW has put a freeze on new sales of environmental water rights, ... Vic 'safe' for Indian students: Brumby · Two teens charged over fatal shoot-out ...
23 hours ago - Farmers lay water bogy image to rest. Date: July 25 2009. Peter Ker. VICTORIAN farmers sold more water entitlements back to the Murray River than their NSW
20 posts - 7 authors - Last post: 57 minutes ago
I know that's the premise upon which the North-South pipeline is predicated, but it is a huge amount of water to be wasting \:\( ...
17 minutes ago - THE shallows of Gunnamatta beach will continue to be the dumping zone for half Melbourne's treated sewage if Melbourne Water gets its way. ...
5 hours ago - By 30 June, the Government had purchased just over 400 GL of water ... the extent to which John Brumby had outfoxed the Prime Minister and his interstate ...
| Thursday, 23 July 2009 |
The folly of the State Government’s North-South pipeline water policy will be exposed by author, adventurer and lifelong water-engineer Steve Posselt, as he paddles and drags a kayak from Echuca to Melbourne, beginning August 1. |
Wednesday 15 July 2009
Friday 3 July 2009
6 days ago - Their land was entered by pipeline employees, who fenced off a portion of their ... the Pipe is not involved with any legal actions against Melbourne Water. ...
6 days ago - ... John Brumby and watch the responses through the Premier's YouTube . ... Water lost in pipeline leaks. About 500000 litres of water was lost ... the supply pipeline from the Waranga Western Channel to the Rochester water treatment . ...
26 posts - 16 authors - Last post: 14 hours ago
They told the Valley to give a bit of water to melbourne and we will save you all this ... Don't get me started on this pipeline....... absolutely stupid....it should never have .... Someone should be charged with stupiditry, Mr Brumby ...
7 posts - 4 authors - Last post: 5 hours ago
What are your thoughts about the north/south
pipeline buzz.
... and this idiotic Labor Government wants to take
water out of Lake Eildon (which was built to
... But no, there is not enough rain to fill it according to
Brumby and co.
...
16 Jul 2009 - Campaigners against the north-south pipeline are branding moves by Melbourne Water to recover court costs in its legal battles with them as “disgraceful” ...
16 hours ago - Premier John Brumby argues that increased water rates are needed to fund infrastructure including the north-south pipeline and the desalination plant. ...
1 hour ago - Perhaps it is time to broaden the definition of household water use to include the ... THE Brumby Government plans to increase TAFE fees (The Age, ...
12 hours ago - FLINDERS MP Greg Hunt has urged Premier John Brumby to categorically rule out ... environmentally destructive option for securing our water supply at the ...
8 hours ago - He approved the Sugarloaf pipeline, which will take scarce water from the Goulburn River ... Melbourne film festival should... Nationalise coal— to fund a . ...
10 hours ago - THE Brumby Government is determined Geelong will be interconnected by a pipeline to Melbourne's water system with the works to begin in August 2010 and to ...
14 hours ago - The north-south pipeline only pumps in one direction, ... As irrigation communities dry up, Brumby's savings will fail to materialise, like all mirages. ... about returning water to the Murray-Darling Basin when his Government is so ...
11 hours ago - The group, Watershed Victoria, is campaigning for stormwater collection and recycling to be used to replenish Melbourne's falling water storages. ...
9 Jul 2009 ... ALMOST half the water entitlements purchased under the national Murray-Darling rescue plan last financial year will never reach the ...
20 hours ago - He told an Australian Business Forum during the Singapore International Water Week last week that climate change had seen cities such as Adelaide, Melbourne ...
23 hours ago - THE lunacy of the State Government's water policies must stop. ... I GUESS Tim Holding, John Brumby and the senior management of the Department of ...
12 minutes ago - MELBOURNE'S water officials have been told to run the new desalination plant at full capacity, ... under new instructions from the Brumby Government. ... on the water authorities to run the plant, and the north-south pipeline, ...
21 hours ago - CENTRAL Highlands Water paid a whopping $1.27 million to power the ... Ballarat link of the pipeline between June 2008 and January 31 this year, excluding the cost of water. .... Search John Brumby 18 mentions Show articles mentioning . ...
22 hours ago - (Echuca) system the water levels where down drastically ( and the signs saying "No pipeline" where everywhere.)Dec 08/Jan09. ...
Brumby is a @#*#@$% rabbit, this pipe is gonna cost hundreds of job's up around ... next year) at least he will have water to put in his chinese milk powder ...
58 minutes ago - Perhaps Mr Brumby could come to our house, so my daughter can remind him about what ... Why not invest the money in a solar thermal array to preheat the water, ... Instead it builds a pipeline that is clearly not going to be effective. ...
53 minutes ago - I don't think the Brumby Government has yet begun to understand the depth of ... The plan developed by Melbourne Water in 2002 was to pump part of this water to ... The Government's decision to scrap the pipeline to Yallourn on the ...
20 hours ago - Mr Drum said the Brumby State Government was under constant attack for its expensive and ill-considered water projects, such as the North-South Pipeline and ...
EASTERN Australia is increasingly likely to be hit by the drought-inducing double whammy of an El Nino and a positive Indian Ocean Dipole.
Despite consistent rainfall throughout June, Echuca and district was unable to match the longterm average rainfall for the first six months of the ..
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18 hours ago - Melbourne Water has banned them from pumping from the nearby Maribyrnong River - even during winter. "This is unheard of. In the past, the bans have been ...
11 hours ago - ALL that rain has finally paid off – Melbourne's water storage levels have seen their biggest rise since mid-December last year. ...
8 hours ago - Gore to launch green scheme in Melbourne. Date: July 07 2009 ... its Future Farming Landscapes program, which is buying land and water in northern Victoria. ...
4 hours ago - Melbourne Water recorded just 121millimetres of rain so far this year at Romsey, compared with 211millimetres for the same time last year. ...
5 hours ago - By contrast the minister and Premier John Brumby are happy to race ahead with ... of the north-south pipeline to deliver an unknown annual volume of water ...
13 hours ago - The north-south pipeline is destined to be the greatest government ... will have any spare water to send to Melbourne. How can Brumby get away with this? ..
THE salinity levels of River Murray water being pumped to the homes of 1.2 million people across Adelaide have more than doubled in the past three years.
8 minutes ago - Such an event could send Melbourne's water storages, already at a record low ... litres of water in storage and desalination and the north-south pipeline ...
52 minutes ago - Long range weather forecaster Dennis Luke predicts Melbourne's water storages ... and the controversial $750 million Goulburn Valley pipeline, which will ...
5 hours ago - Plan still in pipeline for Mentone foreshore ... Melbourne Water confirmed it is pushing ahead with a proposal to consolidate drains in the area but ...
Melbourne's water supplies will soon be supplemented by water from the formerly decommissioned Tarago Reservoir in west Gippsland.
7 hours ago - “Instead of harvesting this water, the Brumby Government is wasting ... single month what the north-south pipeline will deliver annually at full capacity. ...
49 minutes ago - In contrast, the state has a major new recycled water plant, which has not ... funds from the desalination plant and the north-south pipeline makes far more sense ... IT IS hard not to draw the conclusion that Tim Holding and the Brumby ...
23 hours ago - The government is spending $3.1 billion buying up water rights across the Murray-Darling Basin. ... Brumby urges volunteer firies to stay on. Jul 01, 2009 ...
7 hours ago - The long-awaited "Business Case" that Mr Holding released before the weekend put the cost to pipe treated waste water from Melbourne's Eastern Treatment ...
4 hours ago - This is equal to a quarter of Melbourne's water demand, currently 380 ... to $600 million if it used the pipes purchased for the north-south pipeline. ...
3 hours ago - Tourism and Water Minister Tim Holding spent $51893 on a 15-day visit to Los ... Sugarloaf Pipeline construction running ahead of schedule: Holding - Fluid ... John Brumby, Daniel Andrews and Minister Tim Holding announce WorkHealth ...
2 hours ago - ... been criticism of the government's calculations regarding the North South Pipeline. ... In this report: Tim Holding, Victorian Water Minister, Melbourne ...
see http://www.ourwater.vic.gov.au/programs/irrigation-renewal/water-savings-protocol
18 hours ago - "The Brumby Government has changed its position on desalination, on the north-south pipeline and now on the use of water from the Eastern Treatment Plant," ...
18 hours ago - John Brumby's approval rating is down four points to 48 per cent while his .... We are the largest water users in the world. secondly the pipeline is not ...
23 hours ago - “The Brumby Government is undertaking record investment in water projects ... projects come online including the desalination plant and Sugarloaf Pipeline. ...
18 hours ago - Sugarloaf Pipeline opponents have pounced on statements by a senior water public servant which have indicated that predictions made about water availability ...
6 Jul 2009 - In an interview regarding his decision not to stop the north-south pipeline, the Environment Minister Peter Garrett said that under Federal laws he has the ...
7 hours ago - Victoria's water policy focuses on two multibillion-dollar projects - a desalination plant near Wonthaggi and the north-south pipeline. ...
52 minutes ago - FoE campaigns co-ordinator Cam Walker said the controversial pipeline project would ... The report looks at the government's plan to take 75 gigalitres of water annually from ... The report can be downloaded via www.melbourne.foe.org.au ...
10 hours ago - ESC chairperson Dr Ron Ben-David said the price rise would secure Melbourne's water supply through extensive capital works programs. ...
21 minutes ago - But the pipeline was abandoned yesterday because a business plan found the ... go up and adding hundreds of dollars to Melbourne water bills for extremely ...