Government Indecision and Backflips

Government Indecision and Backflips

Palaszczuk 10 November 2005 - The catchment area of Wolffdene dam on the Albert River is 725 square kilometres and is simply too small to support a large dam.

Robertson 18 June 2004 - Water planning is more difficult as a results of the legacy of dam performance disasters that the Beattie Government inherited

DNR website - No final decision has been made, as further investigation is required to allow for a decision to be made.

DNR website - The Tilleys Bridge site has been accepted for further assessment based on its capacity to deliver very large quantities of reliable water

DNR engineers - Palen Creek is the third best tributory of the Logan River

We say, why is the 397* sq klm of new catchment from Rathdowney dam not too small

We say, then why is Beattie determined to create more dam performance disasters?

We say, why has drilling only been carried out at Rathdowney and not Wyaralong? Why did you not purchase the recently sold Wyaralong property?

We say, why then is Maroon dam (which forms part of the Rathdowney dam catchment) only at 20% despite irrigators being on zero allocation for successive years. Palen Creek dry for 12 years, and Logan River so low you can walk across it.

We say, its been dry for 12 years and the two best tributories don't feed this dam

*503 sq klm of dam less 106 sq klm already catchment of Maroon dam