News - October 2009
15 hours ago - It's bulldust that Brumby is standing behind country Victorians; ... in the Melbourne catchment and the water is running out to sea. Why couldn't all of our money that Brumby has spent on spin and wasted on the north-south pipeline have ...
8 hours ago - AUSTRALIA is in the middle of a population boom, and Victoria is at its epicentre. ... including water, capable of sustaining a population of 35 million? ...
8 hours ago - Close to $90 million is set to be spent improving water penetration to a Red Gum forest that straddles either side of the Murray River west of Echuca. ...
4 hours ago - Earlier, unrelated Stage 1 works were to generate water savings to service the pipeline to Melbourne. “Senator Wong has previously gone to great lengths to ...
17 hours ago - The Coalition said it was opposed to the pipeline taking water from the stressed northern rivers to Melbourne and so voted it down in the Legislative ...
5 hours ago - O'Shannassy could fit into Melbourne's major reservoir, the Thomson, 356 times. ... forget the North-South pipeline (all it does is move water from one dry ...
12 hours ago - MELBOURNE looks certain to avoid harsher water restrictions after staying ... when the north-south pipeline and desalination plant are finished," he said. ...
Wong withholds $1bn water funds ·
16 hours ago - The compliance report on the controversial North South pipeline prepared by the Sugarloaf Pipeline Alliance shows that the known or possible habitats of a ...
1 hour ago - ... plant and the pumps for the north-south water pipeline to the supposedly .... Get the lowdown on the events and news at the Melbourne International Arts ...
23 hours ago - The Brumby Government has built a pipeline to suck the last few drops of water out of the drought-ravaged Murray system so that Melbournians can continue to ...
8 hours ago - Tim Holding was delighted to announce that the pipeline had delivered the extra water to the Wimmera region and allowed the relaxed restrictions. ...
24 Jun 2009 ... Pipeline threatens endangered species and our struggling rivers, report says. The controversial north-south pipeline will have a devastating ...
12 hours ago - THE Rudd government is threatening to rethink $3.7 billion in water grants to ... but so far only four projects have commenced - a $25m pipeline project in South ... Andrew Trounson Melbourne Institute of Technology has set it sights on ...
22 hours ago - Goulburn-Murray Water posted a $34 million loss, while Lower Murray Water's loss was $2.6 million. Flock It! Thanks #nickname#, this article has been ...
1 hour ago - COLIBAN Water remains upbeat despite posting a loss of $29.5 million last ... and include the development of a pipeline between Castlemaine and Bendigo, ... Meanwhile, Melbourne Water revealed that it had defied the drought and water ...
1 hour ago - The Victorian Opposition has accused the Brumby Government of wasting water. About 30 billion litres washed out to sea from reservoirs because of limits on ...
1 hour ago - ENOUGH water to supply Melbourne's needs for a month has been lost because of the Brumby Government's failure to live up to its own water-wise campaign. ... Jan Beer, from a lobby group against the north-south pipeline, ...
14 hours ago - If any of you brought bottles of water, please leave them over here. We've got this big empty container called the north-south pipeline." ..
19 hours ago - He pits city against rural areas and irrigators against urban Melbourne. ... Minister for Water Tim Holding is playing politics about the water people use. ... to choose the so called “Independent Auditor” for the North-South Pipeline. ...
Water crisis as bad as a war: ALP · Congress may be key to bill · Climate talks bogged down as US again proves international stumbling block ...
1 hour ago - The release of water from a weir near Stawell was assisted by the Wimmera Mallee pipeline, a local water-efficiency project which has reduced the amount of ..
14 hours ago - Fran said scientific evidence had confirmed ongoing construction of the north-south pipeline by the Brumby Government was wrong. “Water is to be pirated ...
More to planning for a city than turning off a tap. October 6, 2009.
The economic rationalist vision driving this is one water market, which puts towns and regions in competition with each other to allow the water to move to ...
6 hours ago - Pipeline puts stress on the environment. 5/10/2009 4:00:00 AM. JOHN Brumby, Tim Holding, Peter Garrett and Penny Wong have put the future of Australia at ...
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10 hours ago - DESPITE the north-south pipeline inching ever closer to completion, the pluggers are still plugging away. ... Depicted is a masked robber sucking water from Eildon's catchments and someone, ... And is the masked man John Brumby? ...
Ms Crisp said she wondered whether the NSW Government had been able to "get away" with delivering nothing on the Barren Box entitlement in return for turning a blind eye on Victoria borrowing water savings from the Central Goulburn irrigation 1-4 modernisation works, earmarked for the Snowy, for Melbourne. ...
last financial year, as it took advantage of willing sellers to secure Murray-Darling Basin flow…
infrastructure to the modernisation of the Goulburn-Murray irrigation district, subject to due diligence
of Cubbie might solve the problems of the Murray-Darling system, because of Cubbie's large water allocation…
in the Murray-Darling basin has been growing, and water prices have been rising. Water broker Waterfind…
6 days ago - Rain has been falling in the Murray Darling Basin, just not where it's desperately needed.
6 days ago - Wetland areas in the lower end of the Murray-Darling system are struggling to maintain their wildlife, with the rare southern bell frog now almost extinct. .
16 hours ago - The state deals have complicated the Rudd Government's plan to buy back $3.1 billion worth of water entitlement for Murray River health, and the deals are ...
1 hour ago - But until this happens, Goulburn-Murray Water cannot add to the risk burden of our ... My anger is directed against Premier John Brumby, Minister Tim Holding, ... The whole process of the north-south pipeline has been a charade. .
9 hours ago - The pumping station that provides Adelaide with its water supply is at Murray ... the economic impacts of salinity in relation to pipeline and appliance corrosion. ... John
6 posts - 4 authors - Last post: 16 hours ago
In Victoria we have the
pipeline from Eildon to
Melbourne. That will turn many against the ALP!
Water is a big political issue in the bush!
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2 hours ago - John Brumby, trounced by Kennett as Opposition leader at the 1996 election, ... Wonthaggi water desalination plant, woke up to a shock: John Brumby had ... across their properties to allow passage of the plant's pipeline to Melbourne. ..
19 May 2009 - Building big desalination plants, weirs, and pipelines such as the Victoria government's North-South pipeline (being done without an environmental ...
2 Oct 2009 - The North South pipeline is being built as part of the Food Bowl Modernisation Project a project that will make irrigation in Victoria much more efficient. ...