News - June 2010
3 hours ago - And the further away from Melbourne you get, the less likely people will vote ... The north south pipeline, the stealing of water allocations, the water ...
blogs.news.com.au/.../from_the_brumby_frying_pan_into_the_green_fire
14 hours ago - The month's mean temperature in Melbourne was a touch under 14C, roughly half ... from Eildon is factored into the figures because of the Sugarloaf pipeline. ... Melbourne Water water supply manager John Woodland said the amount flowing ...
www.heraldsun.com.au/news/winters.../story-e6frf7jo-1225886431271
5 hours ago - ... of the breadbasket of Australia, is the North-South Pipeline of Victoria. ... The government's excuse is that Melbourne consumers of this water will pay for ... A title system for the use of water similar to land ownership would be ...
www.onlineopinion.com.au/view.asp?article=10593
3 days ago - When Russell Cooper was at the helm of the water authority that looks after northern Victorian irrigation, foodbowl modernisation was formulated, ...
www.abc.net.au/rural/regions/content/201006/2933221.htm?site
19 hours ago - THE Victorian Legislative Council has blocked the Government's third attempt to use the controversial north-south pipeline to supplement Melbourne's water ...
www.thenortherntimes.com.au/news/local/news/general/.../1867779.aspx
6 hours ago - WATER bills for some Victorian families are about to soar past $1000 a year. ... the north-south pipeline, sewerage upgrades and recycling initiatives. ... Yarra Valley Water managing director Tony Kelly said Melbourne's water bills ...
www.heraldsun.com.au/news/...water.../story-e6frf7jo-1225882978443
21 hours ago - Unpopular View #2 - Brumbys Pipeline ... Tags: Topher Unpopular View Melbourne Victoria Water Crisis Shortage Bairnsdale Mitchell River Dam Wonthaggi ...
www.onlymelbourne.com.au/melbourne_details.php?id=23340
2 days ago - Former Goulburn Murray Water managing director Russell Cooper says he tried to warn the ... In this report: Russell Cooper, Former Managing Director, ...
www.abc.net.au/rural/vic/content/2010/06/s2934931.htm - Cached
22 hours ago - “In May Melbourne Water said the pipeline was 'scheduled to shut down each year during the non-irrigation period that normally falls between 15 May and 15 ...
3 hours ago - Geelong users will pay more in line with additional costs in Melbourne for desalinated water. “The amount will be determined once the pipeline is completed ...
1 hour ago - Irrigators believe the Brumby government is about to close down part of the irrigation ... which advises federal and state governments on water trading. ...
www.smh.com.au/.../feeding-off-incompetent-governments-20100620-yp55.html
5 hours ago - “Labor's long-term failure to increase the capacity of the state's water ... but was sent to Melbourne this year with the North-South Pipeline online. ...
www.southernthunderer.com.au/.../murray-river-passed-over-in-favour-of-north-south-pipeline/
23 hours ago - Now John Brumby will take water from the country to hide his failures. ... the food bowl modernisation and pipeline as ''ill-conceived projects planned by a ...
www.tedbaillieu.com.au/water.html
6 days ago - The Victorian government spent $2 billion on irrigation efficiency projects, including the Foodbowl Modernisation Project, based on unverified advice and ...
www.businessspectator.com.au/.../Vic-govt-slammed-over-irrigation-spend-694PG?...
11 Jun 2010 ... That there is tension between the organisations charged with modernising irrigation assets in Northern Victoria, and disagreements on the technical nature of the works, is not a surprise. I warned the GMW board and the government in 2007 that this could be likely and that duplication would result in ...
www.theage.com.au/.../unelected-lobby-a-sovereign-risk-20100610-y0d7.html?..
6 days ago - It looked at the planning for the Foodbowl Modernisation Project and the ... The heaviest criticism was reserved for the Foodbowl Modernisation Project. ...
www.weeklytimesnow.com.au/article/.../197471_latest-news.html
2 hours ago - Extraction caps, limiting how much water farmers can take from the river, ... especially those in the Victorian food bowl in and around Shepparton. ...
www.watoday.com.au/opinion/blogs/greenlines/.../20100616-ye7x.html
5 hours ago - Mr Ryan said that “even while John Brumby was boasting of vast water ... the Government to publicly release the Food Bowl Modernisation business case which ...
sheppartonadviser.ezyzine.com/ThreadView.aspx?tid=3558
13 hours ago - The Brumby Government's ill-planned scheme to modernise the foodbowl, and send so-called 'water-savings' to Melbourne via the North-South Pipeline has been ...
www.panpa.org.au/ThreadView.aspx?tid=35589
19 hours ago - The upgrades included the foodbowl project and a north-south pipeline to transport one third of the water saved to Melbourne. ...
news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=1067179
21 hours ago - In defending the food bowl modernisation process, Premier Brumby has ... headed leader would now commit to not draw water through the North South pipeline, ...
www.melbourne.foe.org.au/?q=node/740
8 hours ago - "The report found Premier John Brumby committed $1 billion to the FMP 'based ... real water savings, the decision to build the Sugarloaf Pipeline before the ...
www.thenortherntimes.com.au/news/local/news/general/.../1855130.aspx
17 hours ago - ... of the Food Bowl Modernisation Project and the north-south pipeline. ... Mrs Powell also condemned the Brumby government for deliberately ... Sykes slams Brumby Government for appalling management of its water plan 10-Jun-2010 ...
www.vicnats.com/news/Article.aspx?ID=10696
4 days ago - Firstly, Holding has spun that the North South Pipeline has the capacity to ... Secondly, Brumby & Holding recently stated that 16gl of water had been sent ...
www.3aw.com.au/blogs/3aw.../brumby.../20100608-xrb7.html
19 hours ago - ... of the Food Bowl Modernisation project and the north-south pipeline, ... “The credibility of John Brumby and the Labor Government has been ... Sykes slams Brumby Government for appalling management of its water plan 10-Jun-2010 ...
vic.nationals.org.au/news/article.aspx?ID=10690
22 hours ago - A Victorian Auditor-General's report has found Brumby Government ... The report did not examine whether water savings and efficiency targets would be met, ... four irrigation projects or the Sugarloaf Pipeline was sufficiently rigorous ...
www.rivheraldechuca.net/readstory/read.asp?id=1160198
2 hours ago - The Auditor General says in a new report that the State Government has put politics before policy when making decisions about water infrastructure. ...
blogs.abc.net.au/victoria/2010/06/index.html?site=ballarat&program...
10 hours ago - Water Minister Tim Holding said he has since appointed a water auditor and 4.2 gigalitres of water has been saved from March until May. ...
www.abc.net.au/rural/vic/today.htm - Similar
4 hours ago - The Brumby Government knowingly misled Victorians when it promised it would not pump water to Melbourne from northern Victoria at the 2006 election. ... “The option of developing the north-south pipeline was explicitly excluded from the ...
vic.liberal.org.au/.../AG-EXPOSES-LABORS-ELECTION-SWINDLE.aspx
4 hours ago - Sykes slams Brumby Government for appalling management of its water plan ... backbench for their failure to speak out against the North-South Pipeline. ...
www.vicnats.com/news/article.aspx?ID=10689
9 minutes ago - Audit reveals Brumby's $2 billion water rush. June 10, 2010 ... the irrigation projects and north-south pipeline, in a reversal of 2006 election policy. ...
www.nationaltimes.com.au/.../audit-reveals-brumbys-2-billion-water-rush-20100609-xwld.html
47 minutes ago - THE Brumby government's signature water saving projects were implemented without ... water plan in 2007, including the food bowl and pipeline projects, ...
www.theage.com.au/.../water.../brumby-water-plan-damned-20100609-xwua.html
8 hours ago - “The funding for the construction of the Wimmera Mallee pipeline would never have ... Authorised By Luke O'Sullivan, Level 10, 140 Bourke St, Melbourne 3000 ...
www.vicnats.com/news/Article.aspx?ID=10674
3 hours ago - Today's report condemns the Brumby government's irrigation programs. ... know where the water savings were meant to go, which was the north-south pipeline," ...
www.wintv.com.au/news/item/30382/
6 hours ago - The report singles out the controversial North-South pipeline which takes water from the Goulburn River, north of the Great Dividing Range, to Melbourne. ...
www.efarming.com.au/.../auditor-questions-victorian-government-irrigation-spending.html
10 Jun 2010 ... The Brumby Government knowingly misled Victorians when it promised it would not pump water to Melbourne from northern Victoria at the 2006 election. ... “The option of developing the north-south pipeline was explicitly ...
www.vic.nationals.org.au/news/Article.aspx?ID=10692
4 hours ago - Anti-north south pipeline activists hope an auditor-general report released today ... Victorian Premier John Brumby denies the Foodbowl Modernisation project in the state's ... Water scientists urge big Murray-Darling extraction cut ...
www.abc.net.au/news/tag/wodonga-3690/ - Similar
1 hour ago - Watchdog mauls water-saving claims. Categories : Melbourne ... anna on High Court blow for Dupas; Alice on Pipeline critic spied on, tailed ...
www.inmelbourne.com.au/2010/.../watchdog-mauls-water-saving-claims-2/
20 minutes ago - “The report found John Brumby committed $1 billion to the FMP 'based on advice of ... pipeline before the government had secured legal access to the water; ...
www.vic.liberal.org.au/.../JUDICIAL-INQUIRY-MUST-INVESTIGATE-BRUMBYS-BOTCHED-WATER-PROJECTS.aspx
2 minutes ago - It also examines the intended outcomes, such as water savings. They are the food bowl modernisation project, including the north-south pipeline, ...
www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/06/09/2922586.htm?site=melbourne
14 minutes ago - Many landholders in northern Victoria are strongly opposed the pipeline that was built to send water to Melbourne. The water is to come from savings ...
www.optuszoo.com.au/.../pipeline-opponents-await-auditor-general-report.html
2 hours ago - Mr. Ryan said that even while John Brumby was boasting of vast water savings which could be pumped down the North-South Pipeline to Melbourne, the Premier ...
www.southernthunderer.com.au/.../what-is-the-truth-premier-brumby-on-water-savings/
49 minutes ago - The government is achieving billions of litres of water savings by closing down ... could claim savings for the north-south pipeline have led to huge wastes of money. ... Yesterday, prominent Melbourne businessman and Sustainable Soils ...
www.theage.com.au/.../millions-wasted-on-farm-water-20100607-xqs7.html
11 hours ago - ... moves in to take advantage of Brumby government's food bowl modernisation project, ... Some well-versed in water and irrigation are in no doubt that Mr ...
www.smh.com.au/.../water.../wellconnected-businessmen-zero-in-on-farms-20100606-xn9t.html
3 hours ago - Many landholders in northern Victoria are strongly opposed the pipeline that was built to send water to Melbourne. The water is to come from savings ...
www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/06/09/2922580.htm?site=shepparton
15 minutes ago - “In August 2008 the Brumby Government didn't like the message its advisers were telling it because it didn't match John Brumby's water saving promises for ...
www.vic.liberal.org.au/.../COURT-EVIDENCE-EXPOSES-BRUMBY-DECEIT-OVER-FOODBOWL-WATER-SAVINGS.aspx
21 hours ago - Former managing director of Goulburn-Murray Water, Russell Cooper, ... strategy for how the scheme would achieve the water savings Mr Brumby had promised. ...
sl.farmonline.com.au/news/state/agribusiness...in...water.../1850645.aspx
9 hours ago - Andrew writes for Melbourne's Herald Sun, Sydney's Daily Telegraph and Adelaide's Advertiser. He runs Australia's most-read political blog, and appears on ...
blogs.news.com.au/.../brumbys_water_woes_spending_too_much_on_too_little
1 hour ago - ... have drifted in this debate — the salary cap breaches by the Melbourne Storm. ... the north-south pipeline, the systematic corruption of public transport ... Wintry blast as cold front hits state 78 people read this; Water savings ...
www.theage.com.au/.../cases-dont-justify-anticorruption-body-20100608-xslu.html
7 hours ago - Victoria's “water cabinet” – Premier Brumby, Treasurer John Lenders, and Water Minister Tim Holding – finally approved an amended business case in June last ...
mildura.yourguide.com.au/news/local/news/general/1b.../1850677.aspx
30 minutes ago - ... of water will see 75 billion litres flow down the north-south pipeline to supply Melbourne. ... ''John Brumby is an Indian giver,'' says David Glass. ... for finding the 225 billion litres of water savings that Mr Brumby and Water ...
www.theage.com.au/.../money-flowing-down-the-drain-as-water-logic-runs-dry-20100605-xm3i.html
35 minutes ago - In the 10 months to June 2009, when the water saving figures were confirmed, Mr Brumby repeatedly said the government's promises would be achieved. ...
www.theage.com.au/.../cracks-in-water-plan-revealed-20100605-xlxp.html
16 minutes ago - Mr Brumby has accepted Ms Proust's view that there are ''gaps'' in the state's ... on water desalination, the north-south pipeline and tolls on EastLink. ...
www.theage.com.au/.../corruption-happening-in-victoria-20100603-x6yk.html
6 hours ago - In a report out today, the Wentworth Group says the Murray Darling Basin Cap ... The group has also called for more to be spent on buying irrigators' water. ...
www.weeklytimesnow.com.au/article/2010/06/02/194831_latest-news.html
2 hours ago - A report on sustainable extraction from the Murray-Darling Basin proposes an almost 40 per cent reduction in water availability.
www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/06/02/2916065.htm?section=justin
19 hours ago - Average annual water bills soon to be $3000. Russian roulette makes more sense than John Brumby and Tim Holding's silver-bullet drought solution. ...
www.theage.com.au/news/opinion/.../water-too.../1275157732932.html
5 hours ago -
WATER AND ENVIRONMENT Labor was warned about
water shortages but did nothing. Now John
Brumby will take
water from the country to hide his failures.read
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Similar5 hours ago - The Brumby Government is trying to bully food producers in a desperate effort to pass a water order that breaks key promises to irrigators, Shadow Minister ...
www.vic.liberal.org.au/.../BRUMBYS-WATER-PROMISES-CANT-BE-TRUSTED.aspx
20 hours ago - MELBOURNE has started winter with its water storages at a four-year high, raising the chances of ... Premier John Brumby credited much of the extra water to government water projects including the north-south pipeline, reconnecting the ...
www.theage.com.au/.../eased-restrictions-flagged-20100601-wvan.html?skin...
Two years ago the retail price of water was 85¢ a kilolitre when the price reflected the cost of dam water of about 40¢ a kilolitre, so that the average ...
Sydney Morning Herald - 2 related articles »
21 hours ago - When our wet seasons return - and they will - and our water storages get back to 80%+ again ... Andrew have you watched his Tasmanian pipeline to Melbourne link? ... ..yet we don't get to hear or see a beautiful dissection of the Brumby ...
blogs.news.com.au/.../why_hasnt_commecial_tv_explained_labours_bungling_like_this/