DAM opponents will hold their own meetings to uncover the social pain of the shattered Mary Valley community after residents walked out of State Government-run meetings designed to assess the same thing. Save the Mary River Coordinating Group chairman Kevin Ingersole will head up the four meetings to be held in the Mary Valley next month. The meetings would collect raw data on the impact that the proposed dam has had, and is having on the individuals and the social fabric of the affected communities, Mr Ingersole said. And the group would give every member of the public the opportunity to participate in a social impact assessment, not a select few.

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Date: 26th March 2007 Location: Kandanga Information Centre

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We believe that the single most likely reason that the dam proposal would not succeed is that the Queensland Government will not be able to demonstrate that it can deal satisfactorily with the environmental damage that the dam would cause. In this case the Federal Government would not approve the project and it could not be built. It is for that reason that we have decided to focus most of our efforts on putting the Queensland Government’s Terms of Reference (TOR) and Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) under the microscope and doing what it takes to ensure that our views are heard and that we have an opportunity to argue for changes, inclusions and deletions in these important documents.

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The Save the Mary River Coordinating Group is unswerving in its opposition to the proposed Mary River dam, and stopping the dam is and will always be the number one aim of the group.

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Agendas and minutes from the Save the Mary Committee.

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Here is an updated summary of the sketchy information that we have been able to glean from DNRM&W staff during the public forum process and later consultations concerning scientific, legal, engineering and construction aspects of the dam and it’s impact Some of this advice has only been given verbally.

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he Save the Mary River Coordinating Group has produced a series of three short television ads to bring the issue of the Mary River Dam proposal to the attention of viewers in Metropolitan Queensland. They can be viewed in Windows Media Player and will take some time to download (about 3MB) each. Although political in nature - protesting against the actions of the current state government, they do not support any particular political party. In fact, local candidates from all parties as well as independants were opposed to the proposal. The issue caused a sitting member to leave the Labour party and another long-standing labor candidate to leave the party and run as an independent.

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MARY River campaigners are taking their fight to the most visual media—television — with a hard-hitting advertising campaign kicking off on September 1 Using the hype of the State’s election fever, the Save the Mary River Coordinating Committee has decided to throw some punches of its own across Channel Seven in both its regional and Brisbane metropolitan areas. The commercials are designed to clearly tell the residents of South-East Queensland, and especially the Brisbane voters, that the Beattie Government’s proposal to dam the Mary River is the result of poor planning and that it won’t solve the water crisis.

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