freediver wrote on Nov 16^th, 2007 at 4:27pm:



All over red rover on the 24th. Labor has not made any comment that I know of, reversing the Qld Govt decision.

In fact, locally, tenders are being called.

The dam will be built, methinks.

Sprintcyclist wrote on Nov 17^th, 2007 at 11:16pm:


Quite right.  Rudd and his crony Goss canned the Wolffdene Dam back in the late 80s early 90s due to public displeasure and that is the reason Brisbane has no water today.

Rudd is for popularity, not reality.  It will change and we will have no water.  Again.

The dam has been shelved for up to four years.

What does degradation due to farming have to do with anything? Surely the cattle have not degraded the bedrock, and the dam will not be sitting on top of the topsoil?

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,24708206-2702,00.html

THE Queensland Government was yesterday forced into an election-driven backdown on two fronts: recycling sewage in the state's southeast and the flooding of a valley to create a dam in the Sunshine Coast hinterland.

Premier Anna Bligh yesterday renewed speculation of a New Year election campaign by ordering a review of the $2.5 billion recycled sewage plan and announcing the controversial Traveston Crossing Dam would be shelved for up to four years.

Ms Bligh said the co-ordinator-general had advised that the dam site, near Gympie, had been badly degraded by decades of farming and would need mitigation work before the project was ready to go before the federal Government for approval.

In the Mary Valley, the locals were preparing to celebrate well into the night, including the Robertson family who moved to the area in early 2006, only a few weeks before the dam was announced.

Parents-of-five Stacey and Stuart Robertson had settled on a 61 hectare property in Kandanga and Ms Robertson said it had been "an emotional rollercoaster" since then.

"We've put so much into this property; it means so much to us," she said.

For their 14-year-old son Angus, the proposal to build the dam threw into doubt his long-term ambition to keep the property in the family.

"Eventually, I'd like to run cattle on the property," Angus said.

"It's what I've always planned to do: work on the land."

Speaking on the other attempt to address environmental concerns and capture Green preferences, Ms Bligh said Mary Valley locals and environmentalists who oppose the dam should not interpret the delay as a precursor to abandoning the project.

"The advice to us is that in order to secure an approval for this dam, we need to delay its construction by several years to ensure we can meet the conditions required to minimise the environmental impact," she said.

Environmentalists fear the loss of threatened species including lungfish, turtle and cod if the dam goes ahead.

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What do you mean by that?

Of course there are some dams that the local population have been lobbying for, for many years.

http://abc.com.au/news/stories/2007/11/05/2081832.htm

http://www.dip.qld.gov.au/news-media-and-events/public-comment-sought-on-nathan-...

This is sustainable development that has to happen.