This is the beautiful unspoiled area where the Desalination plant is proposed to be!

Please note the Planning Minister is in the position to “fast track” ANY planning proposals. Does this mean he will be fast tracking
the Desalination Plant proposal?

Extract from the Bass Coast Shire Council’s Announcement on their website:
The proposed desalination plant was also on the agenda.
“The Minister said that the proposal had not been formally referred to him at this stage,” informed Mr Bawden.
“So he could not tell us whether an Environmental Effects Statement, or another environmental assessment process, would be undertaken.
“He said he understood that the community felt that there was not enough information available. The Minister assured us he would pass on all the concerns we raised, to his colleagues (the Premier, and Water and Environment Ministers).”
For the full announcement please click on:
Planning Minister visits Bass Coast

  

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This is the Feasibility Study’s Table of Content:
Melbourne Water Seawater Desalination Plant
Feasibility Study Table of Content

And this is the Feasibility Study’s Executive Summary:
Melbourne Water Seawater Desalination Plant
Feasibility Study Executive Summary

This is still one of the best published answers (to this not very well founded never mind funded project) :
The Age - Kenneth Davidson - Premiers need to stop tilting at windmills and back effective water plans

It all started on Tuesday the 19th of June …. nobody worth ringing seemed to have any information about this, not even the local Bass Coast Shire Council. The message they gave out was that they waited for 11 o’clock am for a press release by the Victorian Premier Minister.

The initial media release from the Premier of Victoria:

Please note this most outrageous comment that just shows the lack of understanding of the water situation in the first place:
” “The plan will secure water supplies for regional centres, farms, and stressed rivers, and means we can steadily move back to unrestricted water supplies in our cities and towns,” he said. ”
DESALINATION AND PIPELINES TO SECURE WATER SUPPLIES

This is how it all came out, a week earlier than planned by the State Government, still in the last week of parliament’s summer break, because of THE AUSTRALIAN’s article
Desal plant key to $5bn water scheme