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FF.Com.Au Hardcore
Join Date: May 2007
Location: Geelong
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I sent the link to Ted Baillieu office this is the response i got.
Thank you for your message submitted to Ted Baillieu 29 May 2010 via his website. Ted has seen the YouTube video from Topher (Unpopular View) and appreciates your interest in the “magic solution”. The idea of bringing water from Tasmania to Victoria is not a new one. It is a proposal that would require vast sums of money from Victoria, estimated to exceed any benefit. It is therefore difficult to envisage budget capacity for investment in such a project. Furthermore it would be contingent on full support from the Tasmanian State Government and Hydro Tasmania, both of whom have clearly stated they will not consider the sale of Tasmanian water to other states. Nevertheless we have passed a copy of your message on to Louise Asher, Shadow Minister for Urban Water, for her information. Thank you for taking the time to let Ted know your thoughts on this important matter. |
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Join Date: Apr 2010
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i would of thought that the promise of never having water restrictions again(well not for a long time at least) would exceed a one off build project cost.
but then if tassie government doesnt want to sell the wasted water then well yeah its prolly not a great idea |
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Join Date: Mar 2005
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There are 2 videos in this thread, one that MAD posted and one that I posted, I think the link to the one MAD posted was the one sent to Ted
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FF.Com.Au Hardcore
Join Date: Mar 2005
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So the cost of the N/S pipeline + Desal plant would'nt be enough to cover the Tas project..... I doubt it..... Oh and there would actually be some water in the pipe when the pumps are turned on... Now would'nt that be great!!!!!
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Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Melbourne
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FF.Com.Au Hardcore
Join Date: Mar 2006
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when i was in tassie at christmas time they werent exactly over endowed with water.seems funny how every time lake eyre is wet we have above average rainfall .wouldnt it be easier to divert water from the annual northern floods down there and let nature take its course.
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Petro-sexual
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: Melbourne
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Diverting water is not exactly nature's course.
The water supply problem in Tassie was brought up in the videos. There is always water in the dams, just none falling on the farms. The money made from selling water to Vic could help pay for upgrading their water infrastructure which would help get more water to the farms. |
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FF.Com.Au Hardcore
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Calgary, AB. Canada
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Or, we could start eating vegan/vegetarian, grass fed free range and start growing hemp, like we always did.
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FF.Com.Au Hardcore
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: Melbourne
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Desal is the way of the future, and yes i have tasted desal water and it's far better tasting and cleaner than the water i currently get at my tap. Like someone said only problem with a large desal is the amount of power it takes to run it, but the solution here is (also like someone mentioned) nuclear plants.
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Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: Enroute
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Location: Kilmore - on the road to Heathcote!
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Build a dam in Kilmore. We have had so much rain that my property is still covered in water (on the leveled areas) despite being on a slope! Been like this for weeks and the ground here is so waterlogged, it just sitting like ponds that never empty. There are frogs everywhere. Driveway is stuffed and now has holes filled with water that are up to 6 inches deep. I'll be off to the drags today in a GT that is covered in mud and I have given up cleaning her until it improves.
Kilmore didn't have the water restrictions last year I could wash cars the entire summer. GT
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Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: Melbourne
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Join Date: Mar 2005
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Well, our new Victorian Premier, true to his word has turned off the controversial North / South pipeline as of yesterday - well done Ted (and I am a Labor voter)
http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/new...-1225963311459
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Location: Ojochal, Costa Rica (Pura Vida!)
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Now, let's see if he has the goolies to re-visit the Arundle retarding basin proposal??
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Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: Melbourne
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Maybe he could spend some $$ on it and turn it into what labor had promised in the first place. Then any excess from the desal plant can be pumped up to the river to increase flows. Now if only he would take an axe to the desal plant and cut the losses on that stupid waste of money. So many more options that wouldnt have the massive ongoing running costs, or the increase of electricity usage of the desal plant. And our water would maintain it's great taste. |
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Join Date: Mar 2005
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As I haved said before, why not just collect the warer from East Victoria where they seem to have heaps every year even through the dry.
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Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Melbourne
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So much rain this year and it's pouring right now.
A new dam even if built 3 years ago would have been full by now. Even Eildon is well over 60% full. Disgraceful!
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Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: Melb north
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? water capacity, the desal plant could have been a life saver, not only that, another 10 years time they are expecting population to have another million people in melbourne, even if its not used we need a back up. |
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Join Date: Mar 2005
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The Goulburn Valley is the food bowl of Australia, yet that ****** Brumby was ready to sacrifice all that so that Melbourne could have water, what would he have done after they sucked Eildon dry, use the pipeline as a train line? FFS!!!!
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Join Date: Dec 2004
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Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: Bundoora
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Pipeline was a waste of time and money imo, better ways to collect water. Pipeline hasnt been used in months, and in an earlier post of mine I mentioned that the pipe was severely damaged last year or before due to lack of care during construction, it's hardly ever ran at capacity.
Eildon is at 69% full at the moment, probably 70% after this weekend. Yet last week during minor flooding of central and north Vic, yet they let out 1000's or megalitres to "flush out black water" from the Murray (tannins and rotting leaf litter from the embankments that washed into river), which the rain would do anyway? Most houses need to have water tanks installed now that hook up to your dunny/laundry to pass certian energy saving requirements, I'm not sure if factories, buildings, amenities etc in city areas have to do the same? If they implemented that in a lot of places it would be a start to saving a lot of water. |
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Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: Traralgon, Vic
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whats a water restriction? :P
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