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DougHaigh_JenMercer
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 Posted: Sat Jun 02, 2007 12:59 am Post subject: Qld Gov adds 1200 pages to Traveston Crossing Dam Inq. |
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Press release:
| Quote: | Deputy Premier, Treasurer and Minister for Infrastructure
The Honourable Anna Bligh
01/06/2007
Qld adds another 1200 pages to Traveston Crossing Dam inquiry
1 June 2007
The Queensland Government has provided another 1200 pages of additional information for the Senate's Traveston Crossing Dam Inquiry, Deputy Premier and Infrastructure Minister Anna Bligh said today.
"The additional information was contained in 21 volumes that provided some of the early draft work that informed thinking on projects that now form Australia's largest urban drought response," said Ms Bligh.
"The information covers a range of data from records of the proposed Traveston Crossing Dam's detailed geological assessments to preliminary environmental advice on potential dam sites in South East Queensland.
"There is also draft information and early reports on the management of SEQ's water supply and planning for its future. I have instructed all of this to be placed on my department's website"
http://www.coordinatorgeneral.qld.gov.au/about/seq_water_submission.shtm
"Some of the reports identify sensitive issues and raise aspects that are critical of the project, but they also offer strategies for mitigation. For example, criticism of the dam's shallowness can be mitigated, if needed, by use of destratifiers [a mechanism to mix dam water]; and installation of a fish lift and fishway have been included to mitigate impacts on fish movements.
"Our efforts sit against the Federal Government who last week refused to release documents on the Prime Minister's floundering $10 billion Murray Darling scheme. We've cooperated and released all documents sought.
"By 2015 more than three million South East Queenslanders will be thankful that we built the Traveston Crossing Dam as part of our SEQ Grid.
"We are not just building the Grid as a drought-proofing response, we are also building the Dam as a future-proofing measure so that what we are experiencing now is not repeated.
"Future generations will thank us for delivering them water security," she said.
"Today's material - a further 21 volumes - adds to the 12 volumes already provided with the 221-page submission sent to the Senate Committee in April.
The State will also be represented at Monday's Hearing.
Media contact: Deputy Premier's Office 3224 6900 |
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Rev Watt
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1200 pages!
I thought it was sand they were drilling out of their test holes not paper!
I dare say I expect they have unearthed evidence of the existence of bulls in the area too - a lot of BS!
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arawajo
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| I guess they will need a nuclear reactor on-site to power the destratifiers. |
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Gally
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this woman is amazing , she must be on some stress relief pills . I didn't know shallowness was something one could alter. Keep shooting your foot Bliar. Yes, you can leave it in your mouth if you prefer.
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Darren E
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Gally, she's talking about mitigating criticism of the dam's shallowness, not the shallowness itself. Presumably on the basis that more people will read or hear sound-bites from her press release than will ever read the reports.
Remember the original submission from the Qld Government, and Bligh's comment: (Gympie Times 3-5-07)
| Quote: | | Ms Bligh has since told television journalists she did not read the misleading report, which formed part of the government’s 221 page submission, and reportedly said she “didn’t think anybody read all of those”. |
I wonder how much of the new 1200 pages she read before the 1-6-07 press release above? For instance the following document:
QWI Letter re fishway.pdf
http://www.coordinatorgeneral.qld.gov.au/library/pdf/senate/Doc_14_QWI_Letter_re_fishway.pdf
Dated 9th May 2007, it says:
| Quote: | Re: Preliminary Fishway Monitoring data – Paradise Dam
Following are preliminary results from monitoring of the fishway at Paradise Dam conducted by DPI on behalf of Burnett Water. The fish were trapped over 24 hours in both the hopper (the actual transport vehicle over the dam wall) and the downstream trap which is a fish trap placed in the fishway attraction channel. The dates of the trapping was 27 and 28 March. |
Out of a total of 29,199 fish counted in the fish ladder or its attraction channel over the 24 hour period, just three (3) were lungfish. Only one of them actually made it into the fish ladder.
Those two days in March must be just about the only time the Paradise fish tardis has ever operated since it was built. And just like the other studies of lungfish movement through fishways on weirs on the Burnett River, it seems to show that lungfish are either unwilling or unable (except perhaps by accident) to navigate the fish ladder. (See Can the Queensland Lungfish Use Fish Ladders )
From the perspective of the lung-bungers, it certainly doesn't qualify as evidence supporting Anna's claim:
| Quote: | | installation of a fish lift and fishway have been included to mitigate impacts on fish movements. |
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