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Darren E
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 Posted: Thu Nov 27, 2008 4:57 pm Post subject: Qld Hansard 27-11-07 |
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There's lots of comments I would like to make about the following transcript from Hansard, but it's getting late...
The Premier's contempt for honesty and scientific facts is self-evident. What else needs to be said?
Thank you David G once again for standing up for truth and justice, in the faced of such blatant and systemic dishonesty.
| Quote: | Traveston Dam
Mr GIBSON: My question is to the Premier. I refer to the Premier’s statement regarding the Traveston Crossing Dam EIS when she said, ‘If it passes the environmental tests, then this dam will go ahead’. I table for the benefit of the House independent reports commissioned by the federal government on the proposed dam.
Tabled paper: Document titled ‘Review of EIS and supplementary materials on proposed Traveston Crossing Dam, Mary River, SE Qld: ii: Final report prepared by Professor Stuart E Bunn, Director, Australian Rivers Institute for the Commonwealth Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts’.
Tabled paper: Document titled ‘Environmental impact statement for Traveston Crossing Dam (Mary River, Queensland): A Review with regard for Species of Concern under the EPBC Act 1999’, Report to the Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts, Canberra, November 2008.
These reports are critical of her plans and note that the dam and mitigation strategies will not protect the populations of endangered species, and I ask: in light of the fact that the only reports that support the dam are the ones she has paid for, why will the Premier not listen to these independent scientists? Why does she not have the courage to face the people of the Mary Valley and explain to them why she is ignoring the science on this proposed dam?
Ms BLIGH: I thank the honourable member for the question. The reports that the member is referring to are reports that have been commissioned by the federal minister in relation to his assessment of this project. As I understand it, in the last day or so the reports have been posted on the web site. I welcome these reports. I see them as further evidence of the rigour with which this dam is being assessed and the transparency with which both levels of government are approaching the task.
Mr Gibson interjected.
Mr ACTING SPEAKER: Member for Gympie, you have asked the question.
Ms BLIGH: Let me say two things: firstly, as one would expect with any of these sorts of reports, there are views about a range of factors and the assessments would differ from one assessor to the other.
Secondly, of course, what the member for Gympie will not tell us the reports say is that ‘the input data assumptions within the model are generally sound’. That is a quote from one of the reports. It also says that some of the assumed operating rules are simplistic and generally conservative.
Mr Gibson interjected.
Mr ACTING SPEAKER: I warn the member for Gympie under standing order 253.
Ms BLIGH: That is, they overestimate the likely future impacts of the dam. Similarly, one of the reports by Professor Stuart Bunn in relation to downstream effects states that the proposed dam is unlikely to result in loss, damage or degradation of any of the World Heritage values of either the Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area or Fraser Island. In relation to the Mary River cod, it states that restoration of riparian and instream habitat and a continued commitment to the stocking program are important recovery strategies for this species. What these reports tell us is what we told the House here on Tuesday. They back up everything I have said about this dam all week.
Mr Gibson interjected.
Mr ACTING SPEAKER: Order! Member for Gympie!
Mr Lucas interjected.
Mr ACTING SPEAKER: Deputy Premier!
Ms BLIGH: What these reports tell us is exactly what I told the House on Tuesday. These species are vulnerable and they are vulnerable because their habitat has been destroyed by agricultural production.
Honourable members interjected.
Mr Gibson interjected.
Mr ACTING SPEAKER: Order! Member for Gympie, having been warned, I ask you to leave the chamber under standing order 253.
Whereupon the honourable member for Gympie withdrew from the chamber at 10.59 am.
Ms BLIGH: Mr Acting Speaker, I was invited—
Mr ACTING SPEAKER: Order! Premier, please wait. I call the Premier.
Ms BLIGH: Thank you, Mr Acting Speaker. I was invited about 10 minutes ago by the shadow minister for infrastructure to look at the LNP web site. What it says here, of course, as it has said all week, is ‘Site maintenance’ So that is their water policy—’Site maintenance, thank you for coming back soon’—as if anyone would!
Miss SIMPSON: Mr Acting Speaker, I rise to a point of order.
Government members interjected.
Mr ACTING SPEAKER: Order! I am on my feet. I call the honourable member for Maroochydore.
Miss SIMPSON: The Premier is misleading the House. I direct her to our policy web site www.climateproof.com.au
Mr ACTING SPEAKER: Order! There is no point of order. Resume your seat. Before calling the member for Barron River, I acknowledge the staff and students from the Beenleigh State School in the electorate of Waterford, represented in the chamber by the honourable Evan Moorhead. |
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