How can we ensure that SEQ will have enough water?
We believe the best way to achieve sustainability of the South East Queensland water supply is by establishing SEQ as a Water Sensitive Region. This can only be achieved by the setting of a regional cap on water supply based on the ecological limits of the region.
The revised South East Queensland Water Strategy appears to be more about providing water for projected population growth at any cost, than establishing a secure and sustainable water supply for the future.
The many forward-thinking, progressive and innovative initiatives that have been introduced recently to promote changes to water use are at risk of being undermined by the Queensland Water Commission’s current approach, which will inevitably lead to an unsustainable water future.
JOINT MEDIA RELEASE - Save the Mary River Coordinating Group and Greater Mary Association.
Reports indicate that Minister Garrett could make a decision on the $500 million Northern Pipeline Interconnector Stage 2 by 12th Febuary and in response, local groups concerned about the health of the Mary River and Great Sandy Strait are feverishly writing submissions to Minister Garrett to ask him to say No to the pipeline.
“The proposed pipeline is quite simply a waste of taxpayers money. It’s over designed, unnecessary and will damage the fragile Mary River environment,” said Glenda Pickersgill from the Save the Mary River Coordinating Group.
"Interesting that the 12th February is also the closing date for public submissions to the draft 50 year SEQ water strategy. Here we are still seeing a high water use target of 230 L /p/day and the statement "options to make use of strategic reserve in the Mary Basin will be investigated, including an upgrade of Borumba Dam and water harvesting"
“This is the same Mary River environment which Minister Garrett said was in need of further protection.”
Queensland Conservation (QCC) is writing to you with the full support of the State and Territory Conservation Councils* and on behalf of the Queensland network of environment organisations* to urge you to use your powers under the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation (EPBC) Act to stop the development of the proposed Traveston Crossing Dam on the Mary River in South-East Queensland.
As you are aware, this proposed dam has been the subject of considerable opposition and controversy since its announcement in 2006. Many academics, local governments, environment and community organisations and thousands of individual opponents have made and broadcast a very strong and convincing case against the dam
The Queensland Coordinator-General has completed his evaluation report for the Traveston Crossing Dam Stage 1. The Coordinator-General has recommended that the project can proceed, subject to certain conditions and recommendations, more than 1,200 of them!
The report has now been forwarded to the Federal Environment Minister to assess matters of national environmental significance.
Jenifer Simpson's book explaining water purification processes won the the 2008 International Water Association's award for 'Best Popular Presentation of Water Science'
Now available as a download from the National Water Commission site this highly readable book is an invaluable guide to what we put into water, how we take it out again and how we can be sure that it has been taken out.
In early 2008, parts of Central Queensland were inundated by a one-in-five-hundred-year rainfall event that flooded much of the Bowen Basin, resulting in the Fairbairn Dam overflowing. This in turn flooded the township of Emerald and a number of nearby coal mines.
Ensham Resources mine, an open cut mine 40 km east of Emerald, was one of the mines most severely affected by the flood. An estimated 150,000 mega-litres of flood water entered Ensham’s pits, inundating a dragline and creating an image of the power of nature that was flashed around the world.
Love
Mary tells the story of the Mary River. With a focus on priceless
environmental heritage alongside human communities, it gathers stories
of this river's life-giving journey from the hinterland to the sea.
Join MC Jerry Coleby-Williams and MPs David Gibson and Ronan Lee at
the launch of this incredible book and enjoy a selection of produce and
wine from the Mary Valley.
When: 6pm Thursday 4th December
Where: The Avid Reader bookshop
193 Boundary St, West End
Not content to sit back and let the
Mary River be ruined forever by the proposed Traveston Crossing Dam, epic
paddler Steve Posselt is about to depart on a marathon journey down the east
coast of Australia by kayak to hand deliver letters and petitions of objection
to Federal Environment Minister Peter Garrett's Sydney office.
The RiverFestival is about to begin in Brisbane. The Queensland Government is rightly proud to be a foundation sponsor of such an internationally important event. But there’s a problem keeping our rivers healthy in Queensland.
How can we ensure that SEQ will have enough water?
Water Strategy
The Queensland Coordinator-General has completed his evaluation report for the Traveston Crossing Dam Stage 1. The Coordinator-General has recommended that the project can proceed, subject to certain conditions and recommendations, more than 1,200 of them!
Jenifer Simpson's book explaining water purification processes won the the 2008 International Water Association's award for 'Best Popular Presentation of Water Science'
In early 2008, parts of Central Queensland were inundated by a one-in-five-hundred-year rainfall event that flooded much of the Bowen Basin, resulting in the Fairbairn Dam overflowing. This in turn flooded the township of Emerald and a number of nearby coal mines.
Love
Mary tells the story of the Mary River. With a focus on priceless
environmental heritage alongside human communities, it gathers stories
of this river's life-giving journey from the hinterland to the sea.
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The RiverFestival is about to begin in Brisbane. The Queensland Government is rightly proud to be a foundation sponsor of such an internationally important event. But there’s a problem keeping our rivers healthy in Queensland.