News - September 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 ...
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? ...
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. ..
18 hours ago - "There is no water to take and there never was ... that the (Victorian) Government ... having ruled that no water be taken from environmental flows for the pipeline, ... to account for water savings before water was sent to Melbourne. ..
8 hours ago - Serious flaws in the Brumby Government's water savings estimates were ... “It must release the full business plans for north south pipeline and the Food ..
PETER KER | NSW to enact its own water trading rules after a long-running dispute with Victoria.
SA Water Minister Karlene Maywald announced plans yesterday to buy more than 11 billion litres of water that SA irrigators originally tried to sell to the ...
17 Sep 2009 ... NORTHERN Victoria's largest water corporation has been forced to fix a computer ... SA to buy irrigator water · City to get river flows ...
Irrigators are dam furious · Thomson River. THE Victorian Government's plan to take 10 billion litres more of water from the ailing Thomson River has been ...
9 Sep 2009 ... MURRAY Darling Basin water prices have slumped by up to 25 per cent as the
nation's biggest buyer - the Federal Government - is locked out ...
- 17 Sep
11 hours ago - About 12000 megalitres of water previously used for farm dams in the Mallee is to be sent down the north-south pipeline to bolster Melbourne supplies. ...
18 hours ago - IN its quest to convince the voters of Melbourne that it has secured the city's ... have spoken often of investment to secure new water for Melbourne, ... from the Wimmera Mallee pipeline project were never intended for Melbourne. ...
TRUCKS stacked with pipes were roaring along local roads more than a fortnight after the Brumby ... more
7 hours ago - The Brumby government confirmed the water would be used to make up the 75 billion litres it has promised to send to Melbourne via the north-south pipeline ...
12 minutes ago - ... to the north-south pipeline with the Victorian water minister it is no surprise ... The bulk entitlement to allow water savings to be reserved for Melbourne, ... because of the action underway by Goulburn-Murray Water and the Brumby ..
14 hours ago - "In 2010, Melbourne will receive 75 billion litres of water down the Sugarloaf Pipeline from a range of sources including existing water saving projects and ...
13 hours ago - Vic Govt warned over water removal. Posted September 11, 2009 07:48:00 ... from the Waranaga Basin and send it to Melbourne via the north-south pipeline. ...
12 hours ago - “Melbourne is clearly in a water crisis and hard decisions need to be taken, ... “The north south pipeline, which will primarily benefit Melbourne, ...
1 day ago - It was today revealed the Brumby Government would use legislative powers to redirect 12 billion litres in water savings from the Wimmera-Mallee pipeline to ...
7 hours ago - Down in John brumby's Crown of Victoria's marine park The Bunurong Desalination Park in South Gippsland ,Water storages are almost to capacity reseroirs ...
17 hours ago - The letter unfairly criticises the Brumby Government's efforts to improve ... to spin the north south pipeline as a saviour of Melbourne's water shortages, ...
4 hours ago - ... demonstrates that the Brumby Labor Government ignores the needs of ... been to commence the construction of the north-south pipeline to take water from ...
MELBURNIANS could be banned from any garden watering or using commercial car washes as the State Government admits it is running out of options to secure .
- 2 visits - 9 Sep
1 day ago - Brumby government is clearly stressed about Melbourne's water ... flowing to the state's northwest and send it down the controversial north south pipeline. ...
An extra 10 billion litres is to be taken from the already-stressed Thomson River each year, despite an admission from Water Minister Tim Holding that the ...
11 hours ago - I will build another pipeline to create some more water said Mr Holding. We will vote them in said the voters.And now the voters call Brumby and holding ...
- 7 Sep
21 hours ago - The completion of the pipeline came a week after Premier John Brumby bid farewell ... amendments allowing it to pump water down the pipeline to Melbourne. ...
The minister's poor decisions have cost the taxpayers of Victoria thousands of dollars and risked the lives of his rescuers, just as his poor decisions on ...
7 hours ago - Water savings from the upgrades are to be shared between Melbourne, ... to allow the water savings to flow down the North South Pipeline and to rivers. ...
4 hours ago - "Premier Brumby claims water for Melbourne will come from savings but it is ludicrous to ... Protest pipeline finished · Water loss here for 15 years ...
14 Aug 2009 - Instead of an independent audit, the Order bizarrely stated water savings would be ... Source: BRUMBY'S BULK ENTITLEMENT FOR NORTH-SOUTH PIPELINE DISALLOWED ...
21 hours ago - Opponents of the north-south pipeline are doubtful there will be enough water to flow down the pipe from the Goulburn River to Melbourne next year.
4 hours ago - NO matter how often State Water Minister Tim Holding attempts to spin the north-south pipeline as a saviour of Melbourne's water shortages the numbers just ...
''It's reasonable to say that a lot of the current drought of the last 12 to 13 years is due to ongoing global warming,'' said the bureau's Bertrand Timbal. ...
JESSICA Weir says traditional Aboriginal owners along the Murray River taught her that ''if we look after the river, the river will look after everything ..
17 hours ago - Opponents of the north-south pipeline are doubtful there will be enough water to flow down the pipe from the Goulburn River to Melbourne next year. ...
12 hours ago - Mr Holding said the pipeline, which is funded by Melbourne Water users, ... Next year, Melbourne will receive 75 billion litres of water down the pipeline, ...
Water shortfall, despite downpour. August 28, 2009 - 4:50PM. It rained, it poured yet Victoria's dams failed to receive much of a boost from this week's ..
6 hours ago - Water claims are blackmail. Done deal: the north-south pipeline is ready to go ... would be looted and redirected to Melbourne via the north-south pipeline. ...