News - September 2010
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
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
...
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PIPELINE-FIGURES.aspx
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
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?
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
24 Sep 2010 - Prof Malano said the north-south pipeline alone would have adequately secured Melbourne's water supplies, given the maximum annual amount to be drawn from ...
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6 hours ago - ... wind of Mr Brumby's visit yesterday and ambushed him outside Quest Apartments yesterday ... and 'No pipeline to Melbourne,' the group interrupted a doorstop ... DIMBOOLA Boat and Water Ski Club plans to host an interstate barefoot ...
www.sunraysiadaily.com.au/news/local/news/general/.../1947945.aspx
4 hours ago - Since February the north-south pipeline has added just 24-billion litres to Melbourne's water supply. This equates to just one per cent of Melbourne's total ...
www.bendigoadvertiser.com.au/news/opinion/letters/.../1948011.aspx
6 hours ago - Ditto with drought and the crisis it caused for Melbourne's water supply. ... urban water supply - a desalination plant and a pipeline from the Goulburn ... On Tuesday John Brumby spent his morning inspecting locust eggs near Mildura, ...
www.weeklytimesnow.com.au/article/.../237281_print_friendly_article.html
21 Sep 2010 ... The pricing options are being developed before the city's next water pricing period, and are designed to increase flexibility for customers ...
www.theage.com.au/.../water-pricing-choices-to-flow-20100921-15lea.html
7 hours ago - Victorian Premier John Brumby turned the first sod for the Melbourne to Geelong Pipeline; the largest infrastructure project in Barwon Water's 100 year ...
trenchless-australasia.com/news/construction...on...pipeline/043866/
11 hours ago - THIS is Melbourne, not New York. We have an apartment development in ... the north-south pipeline pumps shifted to the south end so that future water can be ...
www.theage.com.au/national/.../a-moral-vacuum-20100920-15jrv.html?skin...
5 hours ago - Melbourne Water has cited the remarkable recovery of Melbourne's water supply ... The North-South Pipeline has only managed to pump 24.1 billion litres into ...
www.panpa.org.au/ThreadView.aspx?tid=39279
11 hours ago - Over the past decade the Bracks/Brumby government has wasted $6.6 billion on new road projects (as well as $7 billion on water). .... The N-S pipeline, Southern Cross Station, Myki, the (not-any-faster) rail links...the lists go on and ...
www.theage.com.au/.../wasted-years-for-victorian-infrastructure-20100919-15hv7.html?...
10 minutes ago - THE desalination plant and north-south pipeline were only needed so that ... The argument about water from north of the Divide goes back to Henry Bolte, ... ANOTHER farce over annual reports is justified by John Brumby as the government
Sep 2010
... Labor strangely would not even match the Coalition's
promise to put the small
... What a
Labor minority government could
mean for SMEs
... you
cannot get more water down a
pipe than what the
pipe can hold once it's full.
...
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Cached16 Aug 2010 ... Did she understand the full implications of what she promised? If by saving the Murray, she means restoring normal flows though the ... The obvious solution is to use the inlet pipe for water from ... that the Murray cannot have its water removed AND continue as it is, something's got to give. ...
www.smh.com.au/.../merry-muddle-over-water-leaves-labor-high-and-dry-20100815-1255a.html
16 Sep 2010 ... THE North South Pipe is lying idle and may not be restarted for weeks, meaning it has no chance of pumping the Brumby government's promised ...
www.theage.com.au/.../idle-pipe-means-labors-promise-cannot-be-met-20100917-15gee.html
14 hours ago - When Premier John Brumby pushed the button for water to flow out of the north-south pipeline and into Sugarloaf Reservoir, there was barely a two-minute ...
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3 hours ago - The 59km pipeline will link Barwon Water's Lovely Banks Basins in Geelong with the Melbourne system at Cowies Hill, near Werribee. ...
news.ninemsn.com.au/national/.../massiove-cost-for-desal-plant-revealed
5 minutes ago - ... trial5:15 PM Sydney Water ignored corruption claims5:13 PM Govt's desal figure misleading: Brumby5:08 PM WA premier slams federal detention plans5:06 PM ... pipeline re-start may cap gains6:50 PM Europe shares rise in early trade; ...
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8 hours ago - Save water - A long term, cost effective water plan starts with protecting ... our natural water storages, not expensive pipelines and desalination plants. ... In the lead up to the November 27 state election, tell John Brumby and Ted ...
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9 hours ago - “Rain is falling in Victoria and water restrictions are being relaxed. ... the Bracks/Brumby administration abandoned previous Melbourne Water plans for ... The pipeline from the north can deliver about half as much water as a new dam ...
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19 minutes ago - According to the government's calculations, the so-called water security ... including desalination and the contentious north-south pipeline. ... He concluded that each year, on average, every Melbourne water ratepayer would pay $345. ...
www.alpwatch.observationdeck.org/?p=919
2 hours ago - The average Melbourne Water ratepayer would pay $370 a year for the plant. ... in effect, signed up every household and business in Melbourne to a debt ...
news.brisbanetimes.com.au/.../massive-cost-for-desal-plant-revealed-20100917-15ewb.html
5 hours ago - And it will be Melbourne households slugged with the overruns through high bills with Melbourne Water ratepayers facing payments of up to $370 a year for ...
www.heraldsun.com.au/...to...water.../story-e6frf7kx-1225925118797
2 days ago - Pipeline + Desal cost slug adds up to a lot of waste on water ... desalinisation plant, built in a flood zone in Gippsland, by the Brumby Labor Government. ...
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16 Sep 2010 ... Opposition country water spokesman Peter Walsh said Labor was paying the price for an unrealistic positive picture in Coliban's original, ...
www.theage.com.au/.../country-groups-still-bleeding-in-the-rain-20100916-15eod.html
12 minutes ago - VICTORIANS will pay an average $570 million a year for the next three decades to have the southern hemisphere's largest desalination plant - even if no ...
www.theage.com.au/.../desal-plant-a-570mayear-drain-20100916-15enu.html
2 days ago - ... ticketing system [MYKI] fiasco and the implementation of the North South pipeline, shifting water from the distressed Goulburn system to Melbourne. ...
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24 Sep 2010 - He has urged Labor Water Minister Tim Holding to come up with a new pricing ... “But with the introduction of the Wimmera-Mallee pipeline there is a real .... needing this type of care must travel to the Austin Hospital in Melbourne. ...
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16 Sep 2010 - Brumby and Co lay claim to the title of nation's best political machine. .... voices on a range osf issues from the Pipeline, desalination plant, public transport, ... Train stations that cost way too much; Poor water infrastructure; ...
www.brisbanetimes.com.au/.../state-labor-skates-over-the-holes-that-sunk-the-federal-party-20100915-15cky.html?...
1 hour ago - He said the desalination plant would ensure Victoria had enough water for ... pipeline that is bringing water from the north of the state to Melbourne, ...
www.theage.com.au/.../opposition-slams-waste-in-brumbys-water-policy-20100915-15cn5.html
3 hours ago - “Melbourne Water was taking 300 ML per day to be piped off to Melbourne via the North-South Pipeline, while the other 130 ML was environmental flow,” Mrs ...
www.vicnats.com/news/article.aspx?ID=11160
21 hours ago - The Labor Government (Led by John Brumby) has been in power for 11 years. ... The North-South Pipeline, designed to pump water into Melbourne from rural ...
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5 hours ago - “The north-south pipeline and the Wonthaggi desalination plant were a kneejerk reaction from a panicked government,” Mr Ryan said. “Melbourne's water crisis ...
www.vicnats.com/news/article.aspx?ID=11165
2 hours ago - “The north-south pipeline and the Wonthaggi desalination plant were a kneejerk reaction from a panicked government,” Mr Ryan said. “Melbourne's water crisis ...
vic.liberal.org.au/.../BRUMBYS-WATER-PROJECTS-UNJUSTIFIED.aspx
1 hour ago - The new and very controversial North South Pipeline brings water for Melbourne's use from the Golburn River on the northern side of Victoria's Great ...
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15 Sep 2010 ... Vic minister Holding sued for defamation ... Victorian Liberal MP Wendy Lovell is suing Finance Minister Tim Holding for defamation. ...
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2 hours ago - ... and the controversial $750 million north-south pipeline. ... All the major water storages, for both Melbourne and irrigation, have been filling steadily in the ... to the point where the city's water restrictions have been eased, ...
www.heraldsun.com.au/opinion/its.../story-e6frfhqf-1225922948678
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4 hours ago - The Victorian Government and its agency Melbourne Water, are currently in breach of Minister Garrett's Conditions of Approval for the North-South Pipeline. ...
www.panpa.org.au/ThreadView.aspx?tid=39063
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8 hours ago - "We'll keep this water in Lake Eildon and bring it down the pipeline later in the year, so that we continue to strengthen Melbourne's water security ahead ...
www.countrynews.com.au/story.asp?TakeNo=201009132962820
Dams filling because of rain, not pipeline
PTP Media Release.
2 Sep 2010 ... Previously minister for agriculture, fisheries and forestry, Mr Burke will face a political whirlwind when the independent Murray-Darling ...
www.theage.com.au/.../farming-a-priority-for-murray-20100913-159ah.html
19 hours ago - Even if the water was no longer needed to boost Melbourne's supply, it was to be stored in Lake Eildon and on-sold or released into rivers. The pipeline has ...
www.heraldsun.com.au/news/...pipeline.../story-e6frf7jx-1225915225140
5 hours ago - Melbourne Water turns off the North-South Pipeline to make way for water from the Yarra. Sugarloaf Reservoir on Monday 6 September2010 It is 85% full. ...
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8 Sep 2010 - Cosy Canberra alliance blunts Brumby's Greens offensive ... more transparency in local councils, and mandatory water efficiency standards. .... but Brumby has done a lot (N-S pipeline, desal, Barmah National Park, Footscray regional ...
www.brisbanetimes.com.au/.../cosy-canberra-alliance-blunts-brumbys-greens-offensive-20100907-14ziv.html
17 hours ago - really Ben? then please explain the North/South pipeline, which takes water from the Murray/Darling system and delivers it to Melbourne as drinking and ...
www.abc.net.au/unleashed/stories/s3007277.htm - Cached
25 minutes ago - AS water flows under Bonnie Doon bridge to swell Lake Eildon, ... as launching a $2bn Foodbowl Modernisation Project and a $750 million north-south pipeline. ... Melbourne Water manager John Woodland called the rise in Melbourne's water ...
www.theaustralian.com.au/...of-water.../story-fn59niix-1225917685332
14 hours ago - Pipeline shut after adding to flood level · spacer. MELBOURNE Water has suspended water ... Search John Brumby 115 mentions Show articles mentioning . ...
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14 hours ago - The Victorian Government and it's agency Melbourne Water are currently in breach of Minister Garrett's Conditions of Approval for the North-South Pipeline. ...
www.kinglakerangesnews.com.au/.../1200-letter-to-the-editor-melbourne-water-breaches-north-south-pipeline-conditions
7 Sep 2010 - Sharman Stone, Federal Member for Murray, emailed Premier Brumby and Water ... been shocked and shamed into stopping the release of water for the pipeline. ...
www.sharmanstone.com/.../Urgent--Eildon-Dam-Water-Release-Update.aspx - Cached
7 Sep 2010 - The
Brumby Govt has already upset so many people with the
pipeline.
... Related reading: Taking
water from the catchments when there isn't enough
...
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Cached3 hours ago - ... says about 50 per cent of her four-hectare property at Kialla is under water, ... Truckie left with whopping bill · Farmers want pipeline shut off ...
news.theage.com.au/.../stranded-vic-mp-sees-the-light-20100908-150j6.html
MELBOURNE Water has suspended water deliveries from the north-south pipeline, after flows bound for the city were found to be adding to flood pressures in ...
The Age
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Brumby: $1.7b for a dam. Medium to long term forecast is for rain and lots of it. .... The pipeline from the north can deliver about half as much water as a ...
www.railpage.com.au/f-t11357678.htm - Cached
3 hours ago - The pipeline has angered farmers in the state's north who say they need the Goulburn River water for their crops. At the time it was launched, Premier John ...
news.smh.com.au/.../farmers-want-pipeline-shut-off-20100907-14ypl.html
1 hour ago - Flood-affected residents are being urged to use bottled water or boiled tap water ... Premier John Brumby visited the SES incident control centre in ... pipeline put in so all the city-slickers like yourself have water every time you ...
www.news.com.au/national/wild...to.../story-e6frfkvr-1225914551499
29 minutes ago - But he said it was ''hard to justify running water down the north-south pipeline with Melbourne's storage levels sitting at a high enough level to supply ...
www.theage.com.au/.../regions-braced-for-flooding-peak-20100906-14y0i.html
4 days ago - Governance & Service Provision | Alan Moran Herald Sun 4th September, ... Moreover, pumping water through the northern pipeline and from the desalination ...
ipa.org.au/news/.../as-a-business-manager,-victoria-doesn't-hold-water - Cached
7 Sep 2010 - A pipeline from Tasmania could deliver 350 gigalitres of fresh water to Melbourne a year. Estimated cost of pipe: $3 billion. Davidson writes: "(One option ...
www.brisbanetimes.com.au/opinion/blogs/.../water.../20100906-14y6b.html
11 minutes ago - ... wild weather last night that affected central Victoria and Melbourne. ... Although I must say the pipeline is a massive waste of money and will never be used. ... have been the first to throw the stones if Victoria ran out of water. ...
www.news.com.au/national/flood.../story-e6frfkvr-1225914300405
7 hours ago - In exactly the same manner, Melbourne Water, during the construction of the pipeline. continued to work on every Total Fire Ban day right up to Black ...
misseaglesnetwork.blogspot.com/.../taking-water-from-catchments-when-there.html
5 Sep 2010 ... Receive a daily email of the nation's news headlines to keep you ... LAKE Eildon has hit 50 per cent of its capacity for the first time ... Font size: increase decrease Print this article: print Send this article: email ...
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THOMAS HUNTER After coldest, wettest winter in years, new season arrives with more of the same
4 hours ago - “The 70 kilometre pipeline takes water from the Goulburn River to Melbourne's ... “The Brumby Labor Government has wasted taxpayers money by building the ...
www.panpa.org.au/Public/Template5/ThreadView.aspx?tid=38661
13 hours ago - Eildon water is flowing into Melbourne's Sugarloaf reservoir at the rate of about 300 Ml/day. ... water from the Goulburn through the Sugarloaf pipeline for testing and ... Mr Brumby said Melbourne people were now using 147 litres/day. ...
www.countrynews.com.au/story.asp?TakeNo=201008302883319
4 hours ago - Melbourne Water are stating that there are government rules restricting the ... held in Eildon and send it down the North-South Pipeline to Melbourne. ...
www.panpa.org.au/Public/Template5/ThreadView.aspx?tid=38670
BEN SCHNEIDERS AND ROYCE MILLAR $5.7billion desalination plant up to three months behind time.
3 Sep 2010 - IT was an odds-on bet that after Premier Brumby washed that car in Melbourne ... its very expensive water from the Goulburn River pipeline and the Gippsland ...
www.geelongadvertiser.com.au/article/2010/09/03/207161_opinion.html
12 hours ago - Photo: Opponents of the North South Pipeline question whether it is needed, after water restrictions in Melbourne were eased. ...
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1 hour ago - MELBOURNE's water storages could be at half capacity by the end of spring with similar rainfall ... Almost a third of the 84km of pipeline has been laid. ...
www.heraldsun.com.au/...water.../story-e6frf7kx-1225910595053
2 Sep 2010 - "Projects like the Goldfields Superpipe, the Wimmera Mallee Pipeline and the ... Melbourne's water storages are now at their highest level since 2006 after ...
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22 hours ago - Lifting water bans is purely a vote-catcher by Brumby. ... Meanwhile, the pipelines in Gippsland and the construction of the Desalination plant are well ...
www.3aw.com.au/blogs/3aw-breakfast...water.../20100824-13lkp.html?...