News - August 2010
THOMAS HUNTER After coldest, wettest winter in years, new season arrives with more of the same
4 hours ago - “The 70 kilometre pipeline takes water from the Goulburn River to Melbourne's ... “The Brumby Labor Government has wasted taxpayers money by building the ...
www.panpa.org.au/Public/Template5/ThreadView.aspx?tid=38661
13 hours ago - Eildon water is flowing into Melbourne's Sugarloaf reservoir at the rate of about 300 Ml/day. ... water from the Goulburn through the Sugarloaf pipeline for testing and ... Mr Brumby said Melbourne people were now using 147 litres/day. ...
www.countrynews.com.au/story.asp?TakeNo=201008302883319
4 hours ago - Melbourne Water are stating that there are government rules restricting the ... held in Eildon and send it down the North-South Pipeline to Melbourne. ...
www.panpa.org.au/Public/Template5/ThreadView.aspx?tid=38670
BEN SCHNEIDERS AND ROYCE MILLAR $5.7billion desalination plant up to three months behind time.
12 hours ago - Photo: Opponents of the North South Pipeline question whether it is needed, after water restrictions in Melbourne were eased. ...
www.abc.net.au/shepparton/news/?ref=nav
1 hour ago - MELBOURNE's water storages could be at half capacity by the end of spring with similar rainfall ... Almost a third of the 84km of pipeline has been laid. ...
www.heraldsun.com.au/...water.../story-e6frf7kx-1225910595053
22 hours ago - Lifting water bans is purely a vote-catcher by Brumby. ... Meanwhile, the pipelines in Gippsland and the construction of the Desalination plant are well ...
www.3aw.com.au/blogs/3aw-breakfast...water.../20100824-13lkp.html?...
16 hours ago - But Mr Brumby defended the $4 billion-plus investment in the desalination plant and north-south pipelines as vital for the state's future water security. ...
m.news.com.au/VIC/pg/0/fi569757.htm
14 hours ago - The desperation to continue population growth has lead them to destroy bushland and steal water for the north-south pipeline, and the CO2 pollution and ...
www.theage.com.au/.../votes-for-greens-could-go-to-libs-brumby-20100824-13qch.html?...
22 hours ago - Until this year, the average annual inflow to Melbourne water catchments since 1997 ... Questions remain, though, about the source of the pipeline water and ...
m.smh.com.au/.../election-again-drives-state-rush-to-ease-water-restrictions-20100824-13q88.html
12 hours ago - MELBOURNE's water storages have passed a major milestone after steady winter rain. ... lower water use and more supply coming from the Sugarloaf pipeline. ...
www.heraldsun.com.au/.../melbourne-water.../story-e6frf7kx-1225909412921
16 hours ago - Opponents of Victoria's North South Pipeline say the pipe is not needed, because water restrictions in Melbourne have been eased. ...
www.abc.net.au/news/environment/default.htm - Cached - Similar
23 hours ago - Water in Melbourne deemed available for car washing (and other non-essential uses), should be sent back through the north-south pipeline to where it belongs ...
www.theage.com.au/national/.../this-is-not-the-way-20100824-13q8b.html
9 minutes ago - MELBOURNE'S water storages have passed a major milestone after steady winter rain. ... lower water use and more supply coming from the Sugarloaf pipeline. ...
www.weeklytimesnow.com.au/article/2010/08/24/225925_latest-news.html
17 hours ago - MELBOURNE households will be able to water gardens at any time and wash cars at home ... infrastructure including the $750 million north-south pipeline, ...
www.weeklytimesnow.com.au/article/2010/08/23/224405_latest-news.html
9 hours ago - "These changes are because it has been raining and Melbourne families have been saving water and have nothing to do with John Brumby," he said. ...
news.smh.com.au/.../melbourne-water-restrictions-eased-20100823-13fgc.html
42 minutes ago - Opponents of Victoria's North South Pipeline say the easing of water restrictions in Melbourne has raised serious concerns about the use of the ...
optuszoo.com.au/.../melbourne/easing-of-water-restrictions-raises-pipeline-questions.html
35 minutes ago - Jan Beer from Plug the Pipe says the pipeline shouldn't be operating. "Why continue to take it from the Goulburn when Melbourne has certainly more than ...
optuszoo.com.au/.../easing-of-water-restrictions-raises-pipeline-questions.html
3 hours ago - Melbourne water restrictions eased. Tuesday, 24 August 2010 ... including the $750 million north-south pipeline between the Goulburn River and the Sugarloaf ...
www.environmentvictoria.org.au/media/melbourne-water-restrictions-eased
42 minutes ago - MELBOURNE's water storages have passed a major milestone after steady winter rain. ... lower water use and more supply coming from the Sugarloaf pipeline. ...
www.heraldsun.com.au/.../melbourne-water.../story-e6frf7kx-1225909412921
50 minutes ago - But this exceptional year for Melbourne's water-storage levels comes at an awkward time for the state government, with its $750 million water pipeline to ...
www.theage.com.au/.../let-it-rain-water-levels-on-the-up-as-dams-reach-38-20100815-1258v.html
2 hours ago - Merry muddle over water leaves Labor high and dry. August 16, 2010. Entitlements are not the same as having the water, but there is a solution. ...
www.smh.com.au/.../merry-muddle-over-water-leaves-labor-high-and-dry-20100815-1255a.html
9 minutes ago - Victoria's opposition is calling for Finance Minister Tim Holding to be sacked after he accused Shepparton-based MP Wendy Lovell of failing to disclose ...
www.sheppnews.com.au/article.aspx?id=1171042
1 hour ago - Victoria's Finance Minister Tim Holding has refused to apologise after falsely accusing an Opposition frontbencher of breaking parliamentary disclosure laws ...
www.afr.com/.../shares_attack_backfires_on_minister_NGE3mhU8Q3TX8doZCUCcOP
3 hours ago - Victoria's vocal water and finance minister was nowhere to be seen on Friday after ... savings from the irrigation upgrades to justify the north south pipeline, ... 8:26 pm Two dead in another Melbourne shooting; 8:15 pm Labor to unveil ...
news.yahoo.com.au/a/-/newshome/7758158/mp-goes-to-ground.../2/
12 posts - 9 authors - Last post: 18 hours ago
Gillard has "promised" to buy back
water from farmers to increase
water flows
... is building a
pipeline from the Murray River down to
Melbourne claiming he
...
www.bigfooty.com/forum/showthread.php?p=18659761
14 hours ago - But Baillieu's patient building of a forensic case against Brumby on the fires, .... the unnecessary dry-water pipeline, Justin Madden and Rob Hull's ...
www.watoday.com.au/.../strength-in-baillieus-stride-as-bushfire-critique-trips-brumby-20100811-11zni.html
9 hours ago - The controversial north-south pipeline has pumped at least 16.7 billion litres of water from the Murray-Darling Basin to Melbourne since it was turned on. ...
www.rivheraldechuca.net/readstory/read.asp?id=1170780
12 Aug 2010 ... ALMOST a third of the 863 billion litres of water that Prime Minister Julia Gillard and Water Minister Penny Wong have claimed will be ...
www.theage.com.au/.../a-third-of-buyback-water-nonexistent-report-20100811-11ztf.html
10 hours ago - Opposition to the North-South Pipeline has been a significant journey and it ... Compare this to the Brumby Victorian Labor Government's Water Policy. ...
www.panpa.org.au/ThreadView.aspx?tid=38112
21 hours ago - Proprietor John Corboy is not only a high-volume grower but an industry luminary who has been a strong advocate _ particularly on issues of quarantine and ...
www.sheppnews.com.au/article.aspx?id=1170009
11 hours ago - John Corboy, from Merrigum in Victoria's Goulburn Valley, has been foreclosed on ... Mr Corboy lobbied for the controversial Foodbowl Modernisation Project, ...
www.efarming.com.au/.../high-cost-of-water-helps-push-corboy-into-receivership.html
30 Jul 2010 ... WATER use for irrigation has fallen but production remains steady, according to
latest Australian Bureau of Statistics figures released ...
http://www.weeklytimesnow.com.au/article/2010/07/30/215511_water.html
53 minutes ago - ... key backer of Brumby Govt's foodbowl project and north-south pipeline. ... The Brumby Government proceded with its implementation in spite of vehement community protest, .... International Water Law Project Click through to site ...
misseaglesnetwork.blogspot.com/.../john-corboy-shepparton-fruit-business.html
13 hours ago - Although there is no human critical need for this water in Melbourne, it is still intended to flow down the pipeline regardless, because, to date, ...
www.countrynews.com.au/story.asp?TakeNo=201008092779659
18 hours ago - Angry farm groups are pushing the report Social and Economic Impacts of Reduced Irrigation Water by Judith Stubbs and Associates to argue for immediate ...
sj.farmonline.com.au/news/state/agribusiness...water.../1906541.aspx?...
20 hours ago - The plant saw almost 1500 megalitres of waste water cleaned and returned to the ... with the City of Hume to allow the recycled water pipeline through our grounds, ... David Hastie A BOLD plan to revamp Melbourne's crumbling Flinders St ...
www.heraldsun.com.au/news/victoria/.../story-e6frf7kx-1111118154110
15 hours ago - The 70-kilometre pipeline project has been met with strident opposition across ... and community impact of taking water away from food growers who underpin the ... Dr Stone has called on Mr Brumby and NVIRP to immediately cease the ...
www.thenortherntimes.com.au/news/local/news/general/.../1905431.aspx
18 hours ago - ... out exactly what they used as the justification for piping the Goulburn Valley's water to Melbourne, and the Foodbowl Modernisation Project details. ...
www.sharmanstone.com/MediaandSpeeches/.../73/.../Default.aspx - Cached
22 hours ago - It's the much-anticipated water-sharing plan for the Murray-Darling Basin, Australia's most productive food bowl. Scientists and community representatives ...
www.abc.net.au/7.30/content/2010/s2973706.htm?site=sunshine - Cached
32 minutes ago - Brumby in hot water. A NEW coal-fired power plant will be built to cover ... fix like the desalination plant and the northern pipeline at the expense of the ...
www.theage.com.au/.../proponents-must-prove-benefits-20100805-11kmh.html?...
16 hours ago - Although there is no human critical need for this water in Melbourne it is still intended to flow down the pipeline regardless, because to date very few ...
www.bendigoadvertiser.com.au/news/opinion/...of-water.../1903116.aspx
19 hours ago - Although there is no human critical need for this water in Melbourne, it is still intended to flow down the pipeline regardless because, to date, ...
www.rivheraldechuca.net/readstory/read.asp?id=1169003
2 hours ago - If the Victorian Water Minister Tim Holding expects people to believe the authenticity ... The Brumby Government continues to show complete contempt for the ... the totally interdependent north-south pipeline never been released either? ...
www.countrynews.com.au/story.asp?TakeNo=201008022761962
12 hours ago - The total volume of water extracted to the Pipeline during 2009-10 will be ... up to 75 billion litres of water from the Murray Darling into Melbourne's ...
bothkindsofpolitics.org/?p=1685
9 hours ago - The Victorian Government confirmed on Friday that the pipeline had ... "Any water that Melbourne gains from this project comes from other Victorian users. ...
www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/...water/story-e6frebju-1225899733784
12 hours ago - “The Brumby government has relied on flawed information to build the North-South pipeline to pump desperately needed irrigation water from the Goulburn ...
www.vicnats.com/news/Article.aspx?ID=10960
9 hours ago - OVER the coming days, there will be many calls for John Brumby to immediately .... It would have been cheaper to build a dam rather than a pipeline from the Goulburn or an ... there will be no new dams - but some very expensive water. ...
www.theage.com.au/.../a-nanny-state-is-not-the-answer-20100802-1138c.html?...
19 hours ago - A total of $47 million has been announced to provide an emergency future water supply for Orange. The money will be used to build a pipeline to the ...
www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/08/02/2971031.htm
16 minutes ago - Victoria's $750 million north-south pipeline can deliver 75 billion litres of River Murray water to the growing city of Melbourne every year. ...
www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/...in.../story-e6freabl-1225899729166
16 minutes ago - Victoria's $750 million north-south pipeline was opened in February to deliver 75 billion litres of water from the Goulburn River near Yea to Melbourne's ...
www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/...water/story-e6frebju-1225899733784
1 day ago - Both parties have come under fire for just tinkering around the edges of water policy, while a landmark report on the fate of the Murray Darling Basin ...
www.news.com.au/breaking...water.../story-e6frfku0-1225899027021
16 hours ago - Brumby's fascist regime, http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/pipeline-critic- ... with previously secret documents showing a key north-south pipeline critic ...
www.sunshine.asn.au/component/option,com_fireboard/.../catid,18/
29 Jul 2010 ... WITH 267 people born every minute and 108 dying, the world's population will top 7 billion next year. While births soar, the ratio of ...
www.theage.com.au/world/our-expanding-world-to-top-7-billion-in-2011-20100730-10zud.html
22 hours ago - Greens call for agricultural asset register. July 28, 2010 16:16:00. The Greens are calling for a national register of foreign ownership of agricultural ...
www.abc.net.au/news/tag/environmental-management/ - Cached - Similar
18 hours ago - Campaigning in central NSW this week, Greens leader Bob Brown said the register of ... Mr Cobb told The Australian he agreed with the idea of a national register. ... "We must ensure that our agricultural assets are not purchased by the ... Rudd in hospital to remove gall bladder · PM denies Labor SOS call to Rudd ...
www.theaustralian.com.au/national.../story-fn59niix-1225898725758
Shutting gate after horse has bolted - Sugarloaf pipeline project and food bowl modernisation project: production of documents. 28/07/2010 ...
mps.vic.greens.org.au/taxonomy/term/688
32 minutes ago - A KEY state government water agency has launched Supreme Court action to block ... the Brumby government still maintained the water savings could be made. ... with the north-south pipeline, was implemented without proper costings and ...
www.theage.com.au/.../court-bid-to-block-water-plan-details-20100727-10ucw.html?...