4,000 Traveston protest letters sent to Fed Govt
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By Katherine Spackman
4 Mar 2009
Four-thousand letters protesting against the proposed Traveston Crossing dam will be sent to the Federal Government.
The Save the Mary River Coordinating Group (SMRCG) yesterday handed the letters to the Federal Member for Wide Bay, Warren Truss, to pass onto Environment Minister Peter Garrett.
The Queensland Government decided late last year to delay the dam after the coordinator-general said it was not likely to get federal approval unless there was environmental rehabilitation of the site.
The SMRCG’s secretary, David Kreutz, says the dam should not go ahead.
“The independent reports and all the information to date provided by our group amongst others is that the strategies won’t work,” he said.
“The matter’s of national environment significance and … Minister Garret should step in - which he has the powers to do - to rule out this proposal now.”
A spokesman for Mr Garrett’s office says the Minister is awaiting a report from Queensland’s coordinator-general before assessing the proposal.
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Traveston dam money should be spent elsewhere: opponents
Posted Fri Feb 27 2009
Opponents to the proposed Traveston Crossing dam in Queensland say they will be actively campaigning against the project in the lead up to next month’s state election.
The Greater Mary Association says the dam is environmentally and economically irresponsible.
The chairman Darryl Stewart says the money would be better spent elsewhere.
“There’s in excess of $500 million already being spent on the project, acquiring land and other things, on a project that hasn’t even been approved by the State Government let alone the Federal Government,” he said.
“It seems to be that sort of money could have been well spent on improving roads, railway level crossings, health departments, elective surgery.”
The Member for Hervey Bay, Andrew McNamara, says he has outlined a $300 million plan to drought proof the Wide Bay region.
“The issue of water is a concern and that’s why I’ve produced my own water plan to deal with Hervey Bay’s water security and indeed the water security of Maryborough and the improvement of the health of the Mary River,” he said.
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