News - March 2010
2 posts - 2 authors - Last post: 8 hours ago
With
water now flowing down the Sugarloaf
Pipeline and Tarago Reservoir
... done to help
Brumby in November, at the sacrifice of Victorian
water security.
...
www.fishvictoria.com/member-forums/General-Fishing/40209?p...
3 hours ago - April showers Melbourne's best hope of breaking drought ... MELBOURNE has fallen just short of breaking the drought, after the city failed to get the ...
www.theage.com.au/.../april-showers-melbournes-best-hope-of-breaking-drought-20100401-rff9.html
23 hours ago - The commission says water buybacks and caps on extraction are more ... 8:22am MELBOURNE has fallen just short of breaking the drought, after the city . ...
www.theage.com.au/.../minister-warned-on-water-caps-20100331-rew9.html
10 hours ago - Acting Water Minister Gavin Jennings said water supplies in Melbourne had turned the corner because of record investment by the Brumby Labor Government in ...
www.premier.vic.gov.au/component/content/article/9958.html
47 minutes ago - JOHN Brumby's multibillion-dollar plan to save water in northern .... the annual 75 billion litres in water savings coming down the north-south pipeline. ...
www.theage.com.au/.../brumbys-water-plan-savaged-20100327-r4dh.html
2 hours ago - The cost of Labor's dam ban just went up even more: JOHN Brumby's ... Free water a must for licensed venues - 3AW.com.au; Brumby's pipeline opens - Larvatus ...
wotnews.com.au/like/more_bills_than_water...to_brumbys.../4790901/
2 hours ago - AUSTRALIA'S record on water management has been a disgrace, the secretary of the .... Cities worldwide unplug for Earth Hour · Brumby's water plan savaged ...
www.smh.com.au/.../water.../henry-lashes-nations-disgraceful-record-on-water-20100328-r59k.html
40 minutes ago - Those 108 farmers control more than 90 per cent of water in the Campaspe district - which sprawls north of Bendigo and includes Rochester - meaning the ...
www.theage.com.au/.../water.../parched-farmers-vote-to-abandon-irrigation-20100325-qzvp.html
19 hours ago - Farmers cannot get by without water. 25 Mar, 2010 04:00 AM ... about taking water from the dry Murray-Darling system to Melbourne through a pipeline. ...
www.bendigoadvertiser.com.au/news/opinion/...water/1785693.aspx
9 hours ago - Wimmera-Mallee pipeline work nears end. There is less than 40 kilometres of ... Australsun · Sims Recycling Solutions - Perth · Sims Recycling Solutions - Melbourne ... pipeline work nears end · Nationals won't be rushed on water policy ...
www.austconserv.com/.../5758-wimmera-mallee-pipeline-work-nears-end.html
7 hours ago - The recent highlighting of crumbling rail infrastructure in Melbourne has ... water from the dry Murray Darling system to Melbourne through a pipeline. ...
rivheraldechuca.net/readstory/read.asp?id=1146581
1 hour ago - Mr Nardella has told The Age his dispute was with Nationals' MP Mr Drum about his right as a parliamentarian to question Ms Riedl. ...
www.theage.com.au/.../i-was-scared-labor-mp-accused-of-tirade-20100323-qsq4.html
5 hours ago - Loc: Melbourne. Pipeline is a joke. I'm from the city and I reckon the only sensible solution to the water problem down here is to build a plant that ...
forum.weatherzone.com.au/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number...
12 minutes ago - Pipeline just a cash and water grab ... as a grab for votes in southern Victoria by supplying 75 Gl of water for Melbourne and 244 Gl environment water. ...
www.sheppnews.com.au/news_1145902.aspx
44 minutes ago - YES, Premier John Brumby, "Why the rush to ease water restrictions?" (Editorial, 18/3), particularly when the north-south pipeline has managed to pump only ...
www.theage.com.au/.../keep-heritage-and-commerce-apart-20100321-qo31.html?...
21 Mar 2010 ... THE developer of Victoria's controversial desalination plant will pay workers as much as $150 million above industry standards in its bid to ...
www.theage.com.au/.../150m-desal-pay-bonanza-20100321-qo2p.html - 12 minutes ago
21 Mar 2010 ... EVIDENCE is mounting that floods gushing through northern Australia are among the biggest on record, and downstream states such as Victoria ...
www.theage.com.au/.../southern-states-rejoice-over-share-of-record-floodwaters-
21 Mar 2010 ... THE company favoured to buy Cubbie Station has offered to sell the government 92 billion litres of water for the Murray-Darling Basin, ...
www.theage.com.au/.../cubbie-station-deal-floated-20100321-qo2i.html - 2 minutes ago
59 minutes ago - JOHN Brumby has a story to tell voters about water this year. ... solutions to the crisis (the north-south pipeline and desalination plant). ...
www.theage.com.au/.../few-happy-as-voters-eyes-turn-to-water-works-20100320-qn85.html?...
17 Mar 2010 ... This talk about moving towards a sustainable city leads me to think that the government has no idea what ecological sustainability means.
www.theage.com.au/.../sustainable-means-letting-rivers-flow/.../1268501489514.html
7 minutes ago - WHEN Premier John Brumby travelled deep into the suburbs on Tuesday to relax ... controversial government water projects such as the north-south pipeline ...
www.watoday.com.au/.../living-in-defiance-of-a-drying-climate-20100319-qm8v.html
5 minutes ago - Water falls short of pipeline promise. Date: March 19 2010. Peter Ker. A PROMISE to bring 75 billion litres to Melbourne through the north-south pipeline ...
www.theage.com.au/.../water-falls-short-of-pipeline-promise-20100318-qicl.html?..
16 hours ago - Mr Brumby and Water Minister Tim Holding will argue that conservation strategies, the north-south pipeline and the desalination plant - two projects at odds ...
www.brisbanetimes.com.au/.../why-the-rush-to-ease-water-restrictions-20100317-qfj4.html
3 days ago - VICTORIAN Premier John Brumby has weighed into the debate over Lake Wendouree, ... Mr Brumby pointed out that with the completion of the Wimmera-Mallee pipeline, ... Brumby's govt caused the severity of our water crisis, at Ballarat and ...
www.thecourier.com.au/news/local/.../brumby-call.../1779653.asp
8 hours ago - The north-south pipeline is operating sporadically, sending a reduced amount of water to Melbourne, according to anti-pipeline group Plug the Pipe. ...
rivheraldechuca.net/readstory/read.asp?id=1145243
14 hours ago - It's opposed the construction of the new pipeline bringing water from the state's north to Melbourne. JAN BEER: Premier Brumby always stated that they would ...
www.abc.net.au/pm/content/2010/s2847620.htm?site=southcoast
16 Mar 2010 ... MELBOURNE will never again go above stage 3 water restrictions, with Premier John Brumby promising that yesterday's decision to relax the ...
www.theage.com.au/.../water-restrictions-never-again-above-stage-3-20100316-
2 hours ago - Has the setting of water restrictions in Melbourne become a political, ... John Brumby, that Melbourne's Stage 3A water restrictions will be reduced to ... cited the commissioning of the (much hated) North-South (Sugarloaf) Pipeline, ...
blog.adonline.id.au/water-restrictions/
13 posts - 7 authors - Last post: 8 hours ago
The
water will be used as environmental flows to wetlands in Victoria.
... boxa, i like the eildon comment, who knows what
Brumby and Co will pull out of their hat
... im from melbourne and im totally against this north south
pipeline.
...
www.fishvictoria.com/member-forums/topic?f=5&t=39876&view
15 minutes ago - Brumby to ease city water restrictions ... the relaxation of restrictions was due in part to water savings programs, the north-south pipeline coming online, ...
www.theage.com.au/.../brumby-to-ease-city-water-restrictions-20100316-qaiy.html
10 hours ago - Desal company 'spying'. MELISSA FYFE March 14, 2010. THE state government is allowing the private consortium behind Victoria's controversial desalination ...
m.theage.com.au/national/desal-company-spying-20100313-q595.html
46 minutes ago - He told parliament the priority for the allocation of water savings from the ... supported the disallowance but said he hoped the Brumby Government would ... to use a temporary qualification of rights to provide water for the pipeline. ...
7 hours ago - Ken O'BrienBarham Strange silence on water now that parks are secured ... to divert water it had promised for the environment to flush Melbourne's ... Whether you supported or opposed the north-south pipeline, it is now a reality. ...
www.news.mcmedia.com.au/news_1144610.aspx
2 Mar 2010 - The Brumby Government's failure to plan for appropriate water infrastructure has led to a series of ill-conceived projects such as the north-south pipeline, ...
www.vicnats.com/news/article.aspx?ID=10188
15 hours ago - North-South pipeline means 50% water rate hikes for Coliban customers ... “This application is a direct result of the Brumby Government's mismanagement of ...
www.southernthunderer.com.au/.../north-south-pipeline-means-50-water-rate-hikes-for-coliban-customers/
10 Mar 2010 - The opposition has always been opposed to the pipeline to Melbourne; it has always ... minister Maywald, Prime Minister Rudd and Premier Brumby. ... of the project in Victoria as South Australia's Water Security Commissioner (not to ...
www.davidridgway.com.au/news/default.asp?action=article&ID...
3 Mar 2010 - “This report confirms that the Brumby Government cannot be trusted to manage Victoria's water,” Mr Walsh said. Media contact: Peter Walsh 0428 507 541 ...
www.vic.liberal.org.au/.../BRUMBYS-POOR-WATER-REPORT-CARD.aspx
3 Mar 2010 - A new report by Engineers Australia says Victoria's infrastructure is barely ... of the state's energy, telecommunications, transport and water sectors. ...
www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/03/03/2835201.htm
18 posts - 18 authors - Last post: 6 days ago
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/state-fails-on-trains-power-
water/story-
.... days after that
engineers report graded public transport in
Victoria as a D.
...
www.sunshine.asn.au/component/option,com...71/.../id,1133791/
21 Feb 2010 ... As the river between Wodonga and Echuca was elevated to ''red alert'' for algal bloom, there were concerns the risks to human health were ...
www.watoday.com.au/.../murrays-algae-red-alert-fails-to-sway-swimmers-20100221-
17 Feb 2010 - Mr Brumby said the pipeline was biggest single boost to Melbourne's water supplies since the Thomson Dam was built more than 25 years ago. ...
www.weeklytimesnow.com.au/article/2010/02/.../158361_water.html
7 hours ago - Mr Drum said the Brumby Government had buckled under pressure from its federal colleagues ... the Liberal/National Coalition Shadow Minister for Country Water, ... North South pipeline project even more galling for country Victorians. ...
22 hours ago - SENSITIVE water data was changed without record or explanation by senior officials working on the billion-dollar Foodbowl Modernisation Project, ...
sj.farmonline.com.au/news/...and.../foodbowl.../1752999.aspx
5 hours ago - THE north-south pipeline may have been switched on, but Plug the Pipe will ... Mr Brumby often highlights the inequity between the water restrictions faced ...
www.weeklytimesnow.com.au/article/2010/02/.../158781_opinion-news.html
7 hours ago - ``The Brumby Government is taking water from the reserve so that it doesn't look ... held back 10 billion litres of water for the north-south pipeline.'' ...
rivheraldechuca.net/readstory/read.asp?id=1141052