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News - October 2010

Ouch! Why your utility bills are soaring

 
4 hours ago - IT WAS the last thing the Brumby government needed four days from the ...
www.theage.com.au/.../ouch-why-your-utility-bills-are-soaring-20101030-1789h.html

Brumby wins on economy, Libs on crime

13 minutes ago - VOTERS believe John Brumby will do a better job of managing the economy, the environment, ... the north-south pipeline, bay dredging and the desalination plant. .... with Melburnians said to be facing another doubling of water bills. ...
www.theage.com.au/.../brumby-wins-on-economy-libs-on-crime-20101030-1789i.html

Water bills 'to double again'

2 minutes ago - The new water figures come as the Brumby government faces an election backlash ... north-south pipeline and other works to boost Melbourne's water supply, ...
www.theage.com.au/.../water-bills-to-double-again-20101030-17899.html?...

Front-runner challenged on two fronts

2 hours ago - Premier John Brumby has betrayed his discomfort with an extraordinary appeal ... to respond differently to issues such as major water projects depending on which ... Opposition to the north-south pipeline is concentrated in particular ...
www.brisbanetimes.com.au/.../frontrunner-challenged-on-two-fronts-20101029-177d5.html?...

Water measures just won't wash | The Australian

1 hour ago - But the deluge won't wash the Brumby government's controversial water ... raise water bills through the roof and the Sugarloaf pipeline sending water from ...
www.theaustralian.com.au/.../water...just.../story-fn59niix-1225945349990

Beer pipes up in Seymour - Weekly Times Now

 
1 hour ago - COULD the woman accusing the Brumby government of spying on her pinch the ... the $750 million north south pipeline to pump water from the Goulburn River in ...
www.weeklytimesnow.com.au/article/2010/10/.../253075_politics-news.html

Water chiefs flush with cash splash | Herald Sun

 
3 hours ago - WATER bosses have pocketed salary increases of up to tens of thousands of ... major projects including Wonthaggi's desalination plant and the north-south pipeline. .... How much money do the Brumby clowns earn from the water companies, ...
www.heraldsun.com.au/news/.../water.../story-e6frf7kx-1225944907963

WATER RESTRICTIONS GUARANTEE FOR REGIONAL TOWNS - Premier of Victoria

20 hours ago - The key connections in the Brumby Government's Water Grid include: ... The desalination plant pipeline which will connect towns in Western Port and South ...
www.premier.vic.gov.au/newsroom/12561.html

Never say never when it comes to our water supplies - Opinion ...

7 hours ago - YESTERDAY'S announcement from Premier John Brumby that Ballarat would never be placed on water restrictions higher than Melbourne strikes as a curiosity ...
www.thecourier.com.au/news/opinion/.../never...water.../1982601.aspx

With torrential rain coming, dams nearly half-full

3 minutes ago - According to Melbourne Water, dam levels have dipped below 50 per cent in 19 of the past 50 years, with nine of those years recorded since 2000. ...
www.theage.com.au/.../with-torrential-rain-coming-dams-nearly-halffull-20101028-175q2.html

Victorian Greens

9 hours ago - Despite John Brumby's climate change white paper, the Labor government ... The Greens opposed the North-South Pipeline. Mr McNamara didn't mention that. ...
vic.greens.org.au/

Murray Darling talks turn to Melbourne | National - Rural ...

5 hours ago - Angry farmers and activists are queuing up in central Melbourne for another fiery ... against the Victorian government's North South Pipeline to Melbourne. ... the Murray-Darling Basin because every drop of water that has come down the ...
bigpondnews.com/.../Murray_Darling_talks_turn_to_Melbourne_531912.html

Local irrigators take Murray Darling Basin Plan to task

3 hours ago - Opposition water spokesman Barnaby Joyce, who flew to MIldura for the meeting, ... Melbourne's more recent drain on Murray Darling waters will be more ... on to urban consumption and projects such as Victoria's North South pipeline. ...
www.milduraindependent.com/.../index.php?...

Dear Editor,

12 hours ago - On 13th October Premier Brumby re-badged this water as now being allocated to Sugarloaf Reservoir for Melbourne's usage via the North-South Pipeline. ...
www.panpa.org.au/ThreadView.aspx?tid=40194

Murray chief looks to cities to save water - The Age | Australia ..

27 Oct 2010 ... Sydney Morning HeraldMurray chief looks to cities to save waterThe AgeMELBOURNE'S drain on Murray-Darling... http://zmarter.com/1317607.
zmarter.com/.../murray-chief-looks-to-cities-to-save-water-the-age.html

Brumby's sleepless nights

1 hour ago - ... clearways, high-rise towers, the north-south pipeline, street violence, ... Brumby is not kidding when he says he expects the election to be close. ..... time the Speaker wondered aloud if there was ''something in the water''. ...
www.theage.com.au/.../brumbys-sleepless-nights-20101027-173qn.html

10000 JOBS in Rural Australias MDB! - Going, going gone.... - Just ...

4 posts - 2 authors - Last post: 9 hours ago
"A leading water economist told the Australian National University forum last ... With the North South Pipeline linking the Goulburn River at Eildon Weir with the ... What is John Brumby going to say when the MDBA takes up to 37% of ...
agmates.ning.com/xn/detail/3535428:Comment:163569?... - Cached

Planning In Victoria

  
9 hours ago - In this way, proper and considered planning for big picture items such as water, ... such as the north-south pipeline, Westlink and the desalination plant, ..... Booze the greater of two evils · Brumby's Labor lives in a glass house ...
   www.nationaltimes.com.au/.../planning-is-pointless-without-community-input-20101025-170bf.html?...
  

Previous story - Country News - McPherson Media Group

9 hours ago - The plan is an aggravation of the many years of drought when the water ... Eildon Reservoir to serve Melbourne via the controversial north-south pipeline. ...
   www.countrynews.com.au/story.asp?TakeNo=201010253104314
  

Murray Darling Basin Report Into Water Buy-backs

15 hours ago - And I see no mention of Melbourne's grab for 75 gigalitres of water annually out of the MDB via its pipeline. The irrigation scheme is not only a one-way ...
www.watoday.com.au/.../weaning-off-the-dripfeed-20101024-16z3v.html

Labor admits its plan is on the wrong track - Just Grounds Community

5 posts - 3 authors - Last post: 20 hours ago
What are Messers Brumby and holding going to do if the authority recommends sending water up the pipeline from Melbourne to the Murray Darling System? ;-) ...
agmates.ning.com/xn/detail/3535428:Comment:163392?xg_source...

Water Recycling To Be Considered | The Southern Thunderer

 
22 hours ago - Similarly in Melbourne the Brumby Government is building the North-South Pipeline while taking water from surplus supply that will impact on Farmers. ...
www.southernthunderer.com.au/2010/10/water-recycling-to-be-considered/

www.theage.com.au - The trouble with managing water

41 seconds ago - ... are diverting country water to city folk via the north-south pipeline and .... and 70s who were holding down full-time jobs, some of them in Melbourne. ...
www.theage.com.au/.../water.../the-trouble-with-managing-water-20101022-16xvl.html?...

News in brief - Riverine Herald: Read Story

 
20 hours ago - The environmental activist who opposed the North-South Pipeline is taking ... ``At issue in the proceedings is whether Melbourne Water attempted to comply ...
  www.rivheraldechuca.net/readstory/read.asp?id=1183118
 

Jobs, towns and our future on line | Herald Sun 

4 hours ago - For instance, the north-south pipeline to send water to Melbourne was the ... Driver crushed: Man killed in tractor accident · Illicit drugs: Brumby rules ...
www.heraldsun.com.au/opinion/.../story-e6frfhqf-1225941402445?...

So this water rage isn't Howard's fault, after all | Herald Sun ... 

  
21 hours ago - I wonder where all that money went, not on a pipeline to the Darling or Murray .... been diverted to melbourne and now their Murray flows are limited too. ...
blogs.news.com.au/.../so_this_water_rage_isnt_howards_fault_after_all/ - Cached

Tony Windsor's Murray-Darling prescience - Eureka Street

- 3:37am
7 hours ago - By the same token, the Brumby Government's North-South Pipeline remains an appalling idea, until Melbourne starts recycling its waste water and sends some ...
www.eurekastreet.com.au/article.aspx?aeid=23808

Police in a pickle as deals turn sour

1 hour ago - ON MARCH 10 last year, a police officer sent an email to a government bureaucrat involved in overseeing construction of Victoria's north-south pipeline. ...
www.smh.com.au/.../police-in-a-pickle-as-deals-turn-sour-20101013-16jy1.html

Basin plan forced to put environment above people | The Australian

14 hours ago - The objects of the act talk about promoting "the use and management of the basin water resources in a way that optimises economic, social and environmental ...
www.theaustralian.com.au/.../basin.../story-e6frg6xf-1225936847480

www.smh.com.au - Not too late to stop the disaster that is our ...

21 minutes ago - It is hard to believe, but the buyback scheme looks crazier than the desalination plant and north-south pipeline, which is designed to take water out of the ...
www.smh.com.au/.../not-too-late-to-stop-the-disaster-that-is-our-desalination-plant-20101010-16dxd.html?...

Pipeline protester announces candidancy

 
5 hours ago - North-south pipeline opponent Jan Beer has announced she will stand as an ... to pump water from the Goulburn River in the state's northeast to Melbourne. ...
  news.brisbanetimes.com.au/.../pipeline-protester-announces-candidancy-20101010-16dg4.html
 

Pipeline protester Jan Beer announces candidancy | Herald Sun

- 7:46pm
4 hours ago - NORTH-SOUTH pipeline opponent Jan Beer has announced she will stand as an ... to pump water from the Goulburn River in the state's northeast to Melbourne. ...
www.heraldsun.com.au/.../pipeline.../story-fn5kmqy2-1225936613285

Beer could spoil the party for Brumby in Seymour

18 minutes ago - NORTH-SOUTH pipeline critic Jan Beer has announced she is running as an independent in the seat of Seymour, dealing a blow to the Brumby government's ...
www.theage.com.au/.../beer-could-spoil-the-party-for-brumby-in-seymour-20101009-16d3l.html

Desal plant cost could hit $24bn

17 hours ago - VICTORIAN taxpayers and water users will pay up to $24 billion over nearly three decades for the Brumby government's decision to drought-proof Melbourne with ... underground power supply for the project pipeline, plant refurbishment, ...
www.theage.com.au/.../water.../desal-plant-cost-could-hit-24bn-20101007-169r8.html -

WATER RESTRICTIONS REMOVED FOR MORE THAN 50 TOWNS FOR AT LEAST 2 ...

27 minutes ago - Mr Brumby said recent good rainfall and water savings from the Wimmera Mallee Pipeline Project had made it possible to ease water restrictions. ...
www.premier.vic.gov.au/newsroom/12188.html

Farmers face cuts to save Murray

6 Oct 2010 ... Farmers face cuts to save Murray. Tom Arup. October 7, 2010. Dairy Farmer Jim McKeown is worried about water cuts when the Murray Darling ...
www.theage.com.au/.../farmers-face-cuts-to-save-murray-20101006-167tk.html

Murray basin report 'may cause riots'

31 minutes ago - Liberal MP Sussan Ley, whose NSW electorate of Farrer is located within the basin, says Water Minister Tony Burke needs to do more than wait for the process ...
news.theage.com.au/.../murray-basin-report-may-cause-riots-20101008-16a9x.html

Government faces $2 billion water bill for basin buybacks

3 hours ago - The Murray-Darling Basin Authority is expected to announce water extraction across the river system must reduce by between 27 and 37 per cent, ...
www.smh.com.au/.../water.../government-faces-2-billion-water-bill-for-basin-buybacks-20101007-169w5.html

Don't ask, don't tell, don't know

1 hour ago - Peter | Melbourne - October 07, 2010, 8:32AM. A bunch of individuals lining their own pockets, ... Myki, Desal, water pipeline, transport, "planning". ...
www.theage.com.au/.../dont-ask-dont-tell-dont-know-20101006-167po.html?...

Water Jan Beer in pipe legal fight - Weekly Times Now

10 hours ago - Melbourne Water rejected claims there were privacy breaches during the building of the pipeline. "The pipeline was subject to well-publicised threats, ...
www.weeklytimesnow.com.au/article/2010/10/06/241711_water.html

Its nearly full at 97.3%

Push for all-round support on Murray-Darling action

16 minutes ago - WATER Minister Tony Burke says cuts to farmers' water rights in the Murray-Darling Basin may need eventual backing by independent MPs or the opposition to ...
www.theage.com.au/.../push-for-allround-support-on-murraydarling-action-20101004-164bd.html

Basin plan must be balanced - Weekly Times Now

4 Oct 2010 ... Welcome to news.com.au, where you will find daily news from the News Limited mastheads across Australia. Access the portfolio of News ...
www.weeklytimesnow.com.au/article/2010/10/04/241141_latest-news.html

Land of poor white trash approaching

5 hours ago - The Wonthaggi desalination plant and the water it will produce will cost up to six times world's best practice - as recently announced by the Saudi Arabian ...
www.theage.com.au/.../land-of-poor-white-trash-approaching-20101003-162ll.html?...

Protester takes government to court

10 minutes ago - ONE of the Brumby government's most vocal critics is taking it to court over ... Water and its private partners in the north-south pipeline had spied on, ...
www.theage.com.au/.../protester-takes-government-to-court-20101002-1621y.html

Water rights to cost extra $3bn

The Murray-Darling Basin Authority will release next week its cost estimates of buying water rights back from irrigation farmers, aimed at cutting farm ...
The Australian - 2 related articles

The Murray-Darling Crisis | In-Depth | The Australian

Natasha Robinson THE expansion of a dam in independent MP Tony Windsor's electorate has attracted the ire of scientists and Victorian irrigators. ...
www.theaustralian.com.au/in-depth/murray-darling-crisis - Similar

BRUMBY'S FUDGED PIPELINE FIGURES > Liberal Victoria > Media Releases

  4 hours ago - The Brumby Government plans to use the north-south pipeline to pump 10 billion litres of water more than originally promised, according to figures in the ...
vic.liberal.org.au/.../BRUMBYS-FUDGED-PIPELINE-FIGURES.aspx

Police accused over files

23 Sep 2010 ... VICTORIA Police has been castigated for striking a deal to make available secret police files on people protesting against Victoria's $5.7 ...
www.theage.com.au/.../police-accused-over-files-20100923-15ot8.html

Victoria's Desalination Plant Is Costing Billions

4 days ago - The Brumby government's knee-jerk reaction, coupled with the lack of ..... Build a pipeline to send water from where there is too much and it runs to waste, ...
www.theage.com.au/.../the-desal-cup-runneth-over-with-our-cash-20100926-15s9j.html?

Panic such a part of governance | Herald Sun

7 hours ago - THE politics of panic. The Brumby Government has become an expert in it. ... guarantee the urban water supply - a desalination plant and a pipeline from the ...
www.heraldsun.com.au/opinion/panic.../story-e6frfhqf-1225928087356