Jeremy tests the electric car
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Jeremy Clarkson, from Top Gear, tests the new G-Wiz electic powered motor car
MaryMighty
Excerpt from Ian Quinn ‘Leave The Mary Mighty” with some images from the Save The Mary River campaign.
Why the Mary is at risk from low flows
Presentation at “The River, the Bay and the Strait” public forum on 5 October, 2008 in Hervey Bay. Presenter: Steve Burgess (Mary River Catchment Coordinating Committee)
Phosphorus in the Mary and vulnerability of storages to Algal blooms
Presentation at “The River, the Bay and the Strait” public forum on 5 October, 2008 in Hervey Bay. Presenter: Graeme Esslemont (Burnett Mary Regional Group)
Berry Climate Change Projections And Implication
Presentation at “The River, the Bay and the Strait” public forum, 5 October, 2008, Hervey Bay. Presenter: Graeme Esslemont (Burnett Mary Regional Group)
Rainfall, evaporation & river runoff impacts on Hervey Bay salinity
Presentation by Assoc. Prof. Joachim Ribbe from University of Southern Queensland regarding the role of rainfall runoff and river flow in controlling salinity profiles in Hervey Bay.
The River the Bay and the Strait:
The River the Bay and the Strait: a public forum on the downstream impacts of damming the Mary River On October 5, 2008 a public forum was held to discuss the numerous downstream impacts of the proposed dam on the Mary River. This video is a short summary of key points made by expert presenters during the forum. The forum was organised by the Greater Mary Association Inc. If you would like to know more, please contact greatermary@gmail.com
"You're not listening now, are you Anna"?
Greg Martin on Brisbane MMM (mp3 File) interviewing Anna Bligh on the great “Qld Fire Sale”
Celebrating Saving the Mary
Senator Joyce, in 2007 you were part of a Senate Enquiry into the proposed Traveston Crossing Dam in South East Queensland. In 2008, when the Qld government announced a delay in dam construction, you were quoted as saying: “We are not celebrating yet but a few quiet beers at this stage are well in order.” Peter Garrett and Barnaby Joyce, as you know we are now 3 years into the fight to Save the Mary River with still no end in sight. When might we be celebrating the protection of precious ecosystems and threatened species for which the Mary River is the lifeblood?
Dam Travesty
I am Minister of the Uniting Church and have lived in the Mary Valley prior to and during the proposal of the Queensland government to build the Traveston Crossing dam on the Mary River. I have experienced the callous way the Queensland government have bullied the local community, Barnaby Joyce could share something of that as he was on the senate inquiry which exposed this painful abuse. My question is “How can you allow this suffering to continue when the social impact is a part of your responsibility to assess?” How can you have confidence in the Queensland government doing the right thing for lungfish, frogs and dugongs - when they have treated people so shabbily, surely their track record of building an environmentally sound dam is shot from their last effort at Paradise dam on the Burnett river? Will you stand up for us, hold them accountable and stop this travesty?
“In searching for a new enemy to unite us, we came up with the idea that pollution, the threat of global warming, water shortages, famine and the like would fit the bill …All these dangers are caused by human intervention and it is only through changed attitudes and behaviour that they can be overcome. The real enemy,then, is humanity itself.” - Club of RomeThe First Global Revolution (1991), page 104 an elite international think-tank, consultants to the UN.