News - March 2009
Water grid in Victoria. By Warwick Long. Tuesday, 31/03/2009. The issue of water dominates news headlines and just by saying that some of you may be trying ...
31 Mar 2009 ... Landholders are taking Melbourne Water to court, claiming its employees are trespassing on their property.
30 Mar 2009 ... MELBOURNE will stay on Stage 3a water restrictions despite storages dropping to 29.3 per cent - the trigger point for Stage 4.
The controversial $750 million north-south pipeline is unnecessary and the desalination plant could have been avoided with greater efforts to cut water use, ...
28 Mar 2009 - THE controversial $750 million north-south pipeline is unnecessary and the ... Bracks/Brumby deliberately created the water crisis by cancelling the ...
27 Mar 2009 - An 85-kilometre pipeline will connect the plant to Melbourne's existing water .... water woes, and it's about time to the Brumby government has proposed to ...
Brumby must release secret water documents: Ryan. 23 Mar 09 | The State Government must release secret documents it has tried to suppress for almost a year ...
22 Mar 2009 - It has always been a mystery why Brumby Labor has been so wedded to the north-south pipeline to bring virtual water from Eildon to Melbourne, and the desal ...
The truth is beginning to come out. What we have been saying ever since this project was first announced is being proven correct. The amount of water is not ..
21 Mar 2009 - A BRUMBY government agency threatened to criminally prosecute a ... he did not know how much water the pipeline would deliver to Melbourne after 2010. ...
One of the foremost experts on the Murray-Darling river system has called for it to be disconnected from hundreds of lakes, wetlands and other environmental ...
20 Mar 2009 ... Furious opponents of Victoria's north-south pipeline say it is not too late to pull the plug on the project amid doubts about water yield.
[ 20.03.09 ], LABOR WATER CLAIMS EVAPORATE. [ 18.03.09 ], KICK IN THE GUTS FOR BARWON HEADS AND OCEAN GROVE COMMUNITIES. [ 02.03.09 ], LABOR REFUSES FUNDING ...
THE Brumby Government's disgraceful threat to criminally prosecute a Coalition staffer pursuing a Freedom of Information request demonstrates how seriously ..
20 Mar 2009 ... FURIOUS opponents of Victoria's north-south pipeline say it is not too late to pull the plug on the project amid doubts about water yield.
Brumby's low-flow water pipe · Minister turns back on water pipeline ... refusing to release a report commissioned to ensure taxpayers' money would be well spent. ... Nationals leader Peter Ryan said $2 billion was an enormous amount of ... Meanwhile, contract documents released to The Sunday Age under FoI laws ...
19 Mar 2009 - Vic pipeline now a pipe dream as water forecasts dry up .... The fact that the Brumby Government REFUSES to release any legitimate evidence of the proposed ...
14 Mar 2009 ... THIS picture shows the collapse of a 50m stretch of Murray river bank - the latest evidence of the drought's toll on our river.
Rain tumbles from the sky 24 hours after Spring Street places an ad in the papers, offering rebates to citizens of the charcoal state if they spend a ...
13 Mar 2009 - The Sugarloaf pipeline has the approval of the federal Minister for the ... The argument from Premier Brumby in Victoria is that it would be water neutral, ...
12 Mar 2009 ... THANK heavens Kevin Rudd solved the Murray-Darling water crisis last year so that he can fix the global financial one this year. If only.
Northern Victorians are in danger of becoming Australia's first climate change refugees, according to a top Brumby Government water official.
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10 Mar 2009 - 25 years—we could be twice as productive on half the
water. We are going to have to live with half the
water because the north-south
pipeline—Mr
Brumby's ...The project meant to secure Melbourne against water shortages is facing a crisis: a money shortage because of the global credit squeeze.
THE real reason why the Premier of South Australia, Mike Rann, is making a constitutional challenge to free up water from Victoria may be because he will ...
Technology exists to reduce emissions and ensure the water supply.
8 Mar 2009 - Premier John Brumby's $3.1 billion desalination plant, the cornerstone of his plan to .... on alternate water sources (you mentioned the Goulburn pipeline, ..
6 Mar 2009 ... THOUSANDS of families will be driven on to hardship grants for water charges in the next five years, water companies say.
5 Mar 2009 ... Victorian Water Crisis Looming In Wake of Wild Fires. Mike Dalmau [pictured], owner of a 4ha property that fronts on to the Acheron River in ...
4 Mar 2009 - “The Brumby Government promotes the desalination plant and pipeline as their 'silver bullet' solution to Melbourne's water woes. ...
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Target 155 a 'flop' as people splashed out. Date: March 03 2009. Peter Ker. A HIGH-PROFILE campaign to limit personal water consumption to just 155 litres ...
1 Mar 2009 - Construction on the Victorian government's pet pipeline project has ... on Brumby's pet infrastructure project, the $750 million north-south water pipeline. ...
There's still much to learn about the effect of fire on the environment.
28 Feb 2009 - City support for rural communities over the north-south pipeline ... is impossible to save sufficient water to send 75 GL to Melbourne, so Brumby will pinch ...
28 Feb 2009 - City support for rural communities over the north-south pipeline ... the desalination plant, alternatives and why the Government's water policy is flawed. ...
The Government can no longer ignore the threat to our catchments.
The State Government is big on promises but small on delivery.
MORE than a billion litres of drinking water — enough to supply Melbourne's entire daily water consumption — was rushed out of one of the city's major dams ...
17 Feb 2009 ... The massive bushfires that have scorched Victoria could reduce Melbourne's drinking water supply by 30 per cent for 30 years.
Once the smoke clears, polluted dams will be a serious concern.
One of State Government's top strategic consultants advised cabinet against building controversial desalination plant and north-south pipeline in an ...
7 Feb 2009 ... NSW faces pressure from the commonwealth and Victoria after a leaked scientific report found it had knowingly restricted flows to the Snowy ...
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6 Feb 2009 - because the
Brumby Government wants to take
water from the drought-stricken
... to the North-South
Pipeline and its effect on the health of the Murray
...Water trading pilot scheme deemed a success. WALNUT grower Arthur Hayes has saved his 700-tree plantation by participating in a water trading pilot scheme ...
GLENUN cattle eede Don Lawson will have to wait six weeks fo any futhe action on his pivate-tespass posecution of Meloune Wate staff woking.
Fire threat sparks call for pipeline work stop. Posted February 6, 2009 11:07:00. Updated February 6, 2009 11:06:00 ...
Water in the Murray-Darling Basin dropped to only a third of normal levels last month, killing fish and increasing the risk of toxic algal blooms.
After a tumultuous summer for the Government, the controversy continues as Parliament resumes.
Balneus » Saving the Goulburn-Murray bill: Overwhelming support. Saturday 7 February 22:48:10 EST 2009. I've just reviewed all 31 public submississions that ...
Water Minister Tim Holding was given a fiery reception at a Rural Press Club of Victoria lunch in Melbourne on Friday, as opponents of the Government's ...