Peaks to Points Festival -
Communities caring for their Catchments
The Peaks to Points Festival celebrates the diverse natural environment of greater Brisbane’s southern region, from the dramatic heights of Flinders Peak near Ipswich, to the...
From the sand hills to the suburbs... steps towards a sustainable Australia
Your invitation to hear from the Hon Peter Garrett AM, MP, Minister for Environment, Heritage and the Arts
The Queensland Media Club, representing the Queensland...
Protesting about the proposal to build Traveston Dam just got a whole lot easier with a new letter generator on www.stoppress.com.au .
It's a critical time in the NO DAM campaign, with the Federal Government poised to review the issue and make a decision on whether it should be allowed to proceed.
NOW IS THE TIME TO TELL THEM WHAT YOU THINK!
Head to www.stoppress.com.au to fill out a simple form and automatically send a letter of objection to the key political figures involved in this decision process. It only takes a moment, but the end results will be vital... lets fill those mailbags heading to Canberra with our message - SAVE THE MARY RIVER!
Don't forget to tell your friends too! Use this link to download a larger version of this image to email to friends and family to remind them that there are better alternatives to destroying rivers and prime agricultural land.
Come and share the adventure of an epic journey by kayak from Brisbane
to Adelaide down the inland river systems, then from the Brisbane
River, over the Conondale Ranges, down the Mary River and back viathe
sea.
The Queensland Water Commission’s (QWC) 50 year water supply
strategy is nearing the end of its consultation phase. You can read it
on the QWC website at www.qwc.qld.gov.au/SEQWS Public submissions are
due by the 31 July.
We encourage you to lodge a submission, as the more
submissions QWC receive the more they will take notice of community
concerns.
Queensland Conservation has set out a guide to make our water supply sustainable in this article and produced a formatted submission for you to send if you prefer.
This week the Queensland Water Commission released its 50 year water supply strategy. You can read it on the QWC website at www.qwc.qld.gov.au/SEQWS
Public Comments are due by end of July and Queensland Conservation will be preparing our response in due course. However, on initial reading of the strategy, we can only conclude that the QWC just don’t get it.
"QCC is deeply concerned about the significant adverse impacts to the natural environment within the inundation zone, wider Mary Valley catchment and to RAMSAR listed areas downstream of the proposed dam, which will likely result in irreversible degradation to wild populations of threatened species and endangered ecosystems unique to the Mary River..."
QCC remains very concerned by seawater desalination as a water supply option due to the following issues:
High energy requirements, and resultant GHG emissions
Impacts on marine environments from hyper saline wastewater discharge
High environmental risks
Encouragement of unsustainable population levels
For seawater desalination to be acceptable certain criteria must be met, including:
Water conservation, demand management and recycling measures have been fully implemented and applied
Operation of desalination plants must ensure marine environmental degradation does not occur from discharge of hyper saline [brine] wastewater
All greenhouse gas emissions from the energy required to operate desalination plants must be 100% mitigated by direct or indirect renewable power generation
Desalination plants must not be located in or near sensitive marine ecosystems
Protesting about the proposal to build Traveston Dam just got a whole lot easier with a new letter generator on 
SEQ Water Strategy 
QCC_TCD_EIS_sub.pdf