STMRCG Submission to Senate Inq

[DougHaigh_JenMercer]

Submissions in writing or verbal are protected by parliamentary privilege. Any publishing outside of the lodged submission is not.

Therefore, our STMRCG submission will only be available for viewing by going to the Senate Inquiry web site. http://www.aph.gov.au/Senate/committee/rrat_ctte/traveston_dam/submissions/sublist.htm

These rules obviously prohibit it being posted into our STMR website. Sorry, folks.

Apparently the Sen Inq Secretary to the Committee has indicated they have been swamped by more than 200 submissions and there is likely to be a delay posting them into the government site due to this.

As indicated by Darren above... the government submission is located at
http://www.coordinatorgeneral.qld.gov.au/about/seq_water_submission.shtm

[Darren E]

I've just been reading some of the public submissions that have already been posted on the APH website.

The closing line from Ian Mackay's submission sums it up perfectly:

[Darren E]

The STMR submission is now up on the APH website, together with 186 others (so far).

If you don't have the time to read any of them, at least go and check out the list of people and organisations who've made a submission - an incredible broad spectrum of people from all areas and walks of life.
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[Darren E]

Courier Mail article on the senate submissions...

http://travestonswamp.info/forum/viewtopic.php?p=10114#10114
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[Shirley E]

Further submissions (nos. 188 to 199) have been added to the senate committees website:
http://www.aph.gov.au/Senate/committee/rrat_ctte/traveston_dam/submissions/sublist.htm

[Shirley E]

Submission no 195 is pro-dam - that makes 2 out of 199. The Qld Water Resources Reform have submitted 62 pages, mostly brochures on water recyling and nearly 30 pages of photos of empty dams and Gympie in flood. Under the heading "Engineering" they have sumitted that the dam is required because the Gympie highway bypass will improve the road at Federal???? Under the heading Environmental Advantages "Storage dams create wildlife habitats???

Be warned - it's a 6Mb dowload

PS Google couldn't help me with who the Qld Water Resource Reform was. I couldn't find an address or persons name or position on the report. Does anyone else know?

I missed the author list
Chris Wright - Ipswich
John Rook - Nambour
Simon Menzies - Gympie
Matthew Jensen - Holland Park
Joe Woodford - Carina

[imackay]

Whoever the Water Resources Reform Group are, I do have to thank them for at least showing photos of nearly empty dams.

I continue to contend that it is because of an abundance of full dam photos that we have this problem.

In support of my case, I urge the reader to visit sunwater and seqwater websites to see the beaming, hard-hatted engineers against a backdrop of brimful dams and thundering spillways.

Postcards and brochures only ever show full dams, probably re-touched to a more aestheic shade of blue.

It's only natural to assume that a dam comes full, much like buying a bottle of water in a shop.

To some (presumably the WRRG) a string of empty dams is a clear sign that we need more.

To anyone with half an eye and even the merest modicum of cerebral attention to climate change predictions, the same evidence might begin to suggest that dams were't working.

I've said it before but it's like a poor man looking forlornly at his empty wallet and deciding that the obvious solution to his financial woes is to get more wallets.

Perceptions are funny things, aren't they..... as in,is the dam half-full or half-empty...........sorry.

[Rev Watt]

[Darren E]

To an optimist, the glass is half full.
To a pessimist, the glass is half empty.
To a pragmatist, the glass is twice as big as it needs to be.
To an idiot, another couple of glasses are required.
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"If you don't stand for something, you will fall for anything" - anon.
"There can be no liberty for a community which lacks the means by which to detect lies" - Walter Lippman

[Shirley E]

Another few senate submissions have been uploaded:
http://www.aph.gov.au/Senate/committee/rrat_ctte/traveston_dam/submissions/sublist.htm
We are now up to 203 (with the last one being CONFIDENTIAL).

As well as senate submissions, this page also contains answers to questions on notice, the first being from the QLD Dairy Farmers. I guess when there are answers to all those other questions on notice, they will also appear here.

The senate committee is sitting again in Canberra tomorrow.