Paul and listers,
I share your bitterness and can't agree more with the ABC journalist's
comments: the $340 million supposedly allocated to this ridiculous piece
of grandstanding that the Hunter dam proposal represents, which of course
will turn into $600 million by the time the white elephant is built -
after all, profiteering and inflation are the names of the game - would be
better spent buying up the bushland in the lower Hunter (or what remains
of it) to secure quality catchment land for creeks, streams and ultimately
for Lake Macquarie and environs. That money should go to giving this
region an urgently needed network of green corridors protected as National
Park land which could ensure better prospects for Masked Owl survival in
the area, among many many other species, threatened and otherwise. As it
stands, the dam proposal does the opposite: it guarantees the region
between the Central Coast and Newcastle - all that important bushland -
will become Sydney's "population overflow" dumping ground where sprawl
will rain supreme. Pun intended. Water problems will not be solved, they
will be worsened. You might see or hear the odd Magpie or Indian Mynah
above the noise of traffic and the screams of trailbikes, but that will be
all.
Craig Williams
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