Peter Beattie - Ecological Hypocrite

[CHRIS aka GWH]

Check out the Australian today - a $100 000+ FULL PAGE ad pushing the Beattie Government "plan" to source the inland rivers from the north coastal catchment. It invites the southern state to get on board the plan.

IT IS AN ECOLOGICAL DISASTER WAITING TO HAPPEN.

The destruction of species and habitat by mixing river systems that have been seperate since day dot is unimaginable.

This from the guy who bent over backwards in the name of saving a single species that shafted so many Moreton Bay fishos....

This government is just plain dangerous - it does not plan - it cannot budget - and worst of all because of these things it is reactionary.

I just could not believe it when I saw it - no research has even been done - the answers would be obvious anyway.

chris

[Mozza]

This has more to do with politicking than it has to do with reactionary planning - the same plan has been reviewed 7 times since 1957(?) without one iota of the contents of the report ever having been published.

What does that tell you about the findings and recommendations of the report? You might even find that such suggestions nearly get mooted in an election year...

Mozza

[PinHead]

that is the Bradfield Plan from the 30's..Bradfield designed the Sydney Harbour bridge and the Story Bridge and came up with that plan. If it has been knocked back for the past 70 years what now makes it so wonderful ?
Good ol' Pete will just be using this to divert attention from something else..could that be..education, police, health, water, power supplies, Nuttall etc...anyones guess on this one with Pete.

[rando]

The precedent here is obviously the Snowy Mountains scheme.
Why would anyone want to reproduce an ecological disaster of massive proportions.The Snowy scheme is responsable for the death of the Snowy river itself. The killing off of the Barmah redgum forests. Massive agricultural salinity problems.
The hardship this scheme will generate in the future when the "riverland" finally succumbs to rising salt and the subsequent failure of the communities that have developed there ,and the destruction of the Murray as a living entity should not be repeated.
The notion that north Qld water would actually reach Lake Eyre(and create an inland sea) via the Thompson is wishful thinking. The farmers along the way would use every last drop they could get their hands on.

My 2 cents
rando