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| Author | Topic: Desal - not critical infrastructure |
| Daniel |
posted 7/10/07 9:59 AM
Dam levels are now 55% and rising. Building the plant at this stage and particularly at Kurnell is a very stupid and costly measure, having the plant on one side of Botany Bay and causing a lot of destruction and wasting even more money to run the pipes to the other side of the Bay!!!It really makes you question what kind of people are governing NSW. |
| Daniel |
posted 7/14/07 11:52 PM
NSW Labor Party and Sydney Water, have you thought about the millions of marine creatures that will be killed unnecessarily by the sucking pipes of the desalination plant? And have you thought where are you going to dump them? Do you have a conscience?We are not dying of thirst yet and never will, with proper water management, harvesting stormwater, rainwater tanks and maybe even building a few more dams in areas where it rains most of the time.Use the taxpayers 2 billion dollars in an intelligent and non-destructive way. |
| Ricky |
posted 7/16/07 0:27 AM
Daniel, get your facts right. the suction will not be strong enough to take in marine animals. Please read up on this at the gov desal web site. |
| paddy |
posted 7/16/07 2:49 PM
The most serious issue with the desal plant has to be the huge trenching of botany bay because of the highly toxic waste from Orica[ici]that has been leaking for years into the ground water and lodged in the underlying sands etc.When they start trenching the bay they will disturb the settled toxins[which are cancer causing[fact for ricky] and destroy the now pristine bay and silver beach as voted last month by beach watchWhat will Iemma do then,an Enviromental impact study would highlight this and thats why its classified as critical infrastructure,to bypass this process.If the lack of water was the real issue why would sydney water/nsw gov now suggest after the dams have increased they may consider lifting the water restrictions."Only when all the oceans are dead and all the trees are gone Will man realise you can`t eat money".Ricky,I agree with some things you say like fixing the leaking pipes,harvesting rain water etc but do you not think we should try these things before building a power guzzling,enviromental damaging desal plant-it may not be needed if managed right. |
| Daniel |
posted 7/16/07 11:49 PM
Ricky, use common sense. How does your vacuum cleaner work? What does it suck in? Imagine what the huge pipes of the desalination plant are going to suck in and at what price. How can you believe what the Government and Sydney Water are saying?, they have been misleading us in many ways. Paddy also has very valid points. |
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