Mar 08
☺☺☺☺☺☺☺☺☺☺ With many thanks to Colin Suggett ☺☺☺☺☺☺☺☺☺☺
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Oct 02
Ministerial guidelines for assessment of environmental effects under the Environment Effects Act 1978
No Comments »These are the guidelines that determine if an EES should be done for the proposed desalination plant.
The Environment Effects Act 1978 provides for assessment of proposed projects (works) that are capable of having a significant effect on the environment.
“What is the ‘environment’?
It includes the physical, biological, heritage, cultural, social, health, safety and economic aspects of human surroundings, including the wider ecological and physical systems within which humans live.”
And this is the reason why we would like to have an EES as stated as being the general objectives of an EES. (But maybe they are the reasons why the State Government is so hesitant??):
“The general objective of the assessment process is:
To provide for the transparent, integrated and timely assessment of the environmental effects of projects capable of having a significant effect on the environment.”
Aug 30
This is the beautiful unspoiled area where the Desalination plant is proposed to be!
Aug 29
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
Aug 29
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
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Watch our youtube videos, Listen to the radio links and get interested!
- youtube - Desal Protest - My Tribute To Those That Care Higher Quality
- Transcript of Friday’s (20 June 08) ABC Stateline Victoria - Kathy Bowlen interviews Councilor Garteh Barlow
- ABC Gippsland - Camping out for a cause
- ABC - 7:30 Report - Tim Flannery reflects on 2007
- Bob Brown -youtube video from Kilcunda
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- 1st December 08 - final settlement for court costs
- Desalination Project Public Inquiry - Your Water Your Say - Submission
- The Age - 25 September 08 - Water policy is based on flawed figures
- Water Smart ‘Water Supply - Demand Strategy for Melbourne (Water Substitution) April 2006 - on Clean Ocean website
- 3rd September - YOUR WATER “NO†SAY
- The Age - 30 Aug 08 - Water plant to guzzle energy
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