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Water
Saudi Arabia has nearly 30 desalination plants.
Saudi Arabia has nearly 30 desalination plants.
Bullet6Rudd's desal plans a herd of white elephants
Media Release: 29-10-07

Kevin Rudd's proposal to give $1 billion dollars in tax benefits to companies to build desalination plants reveals that Labor still doesn't understand climate change or the economics of public-private partnerships, NSW Greens Senator Kerry Nettle said today.
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Water works ... Aerial view of the Kurnell desalination plant site. The plant should be operational by 2009.
Photo: Anthony Johnson
Water works ... Aerial view of the Kurnell desalination plant site. The plant should be operational by 2009.
Photo: Anthony Johnson
Bullet6Scorched earth for water plant we might not need
Hannah Edwards, Environment Reporter, SMH
September 2, 2007

THIS is the first clear glimpse of the massive scale of the construction work for the state's $1.76 billion water desalination plant at Kurnell.

Earth works to prepare the controversial site, south of Botany Bay, have been under way for several months.

The State Government commissioned the plant during the height of the drought, saying it would help solve Sydney's future drinking water shortage problems.

But critics say the plant, due for completion in 2009, is no longer needed, with recent rains having raised dam levels.
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Bullet6Sydney downpour highlights foolish desalination decision
Greens NSW MP John Kaye today called for the Iemma government to freeze work on the desalination plant in response to heavy rains in the Sydney basin and the chance of good inflows to the catchment.     Bullet4Read more...
Bullet6Labor’s Three Card Trick on Desal
22nd February 2007.

Ben Spies-Butcher, Greens candidate for Heffron, has questioned Labor Party claims that a desalination plant in Botany Bay would be run on green power.
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The Jubail desalination plant in Saudi Arabia is the largest in the world.
The Jubail desalination plant in Saudi Arabia is the largest in the world.
Bullet6Residents Concerned Over Desalination Pipeline
Dr Ben Spies-Butcher, Greens Candidate for Heffron, today door-knocked residents of Ashmore St, Erskineville, to gauge public reaction to recent revelations of a high capacity water pipepline to be built through the street. The pipeline would carry the output of the proposed Kurnell desalination plant to Sydney’s water supply.     Bullet4Read more...
Bullet6Save water instead of wasting energy on desalination
The Greens are calling for the immediate introduction of Level IV water restrictions as the only sensible solution to the drought.

Ben Spies-Butcher, Greens candidate for Heffron says that "by introducing level IV restrictions now, we would put off the need for a desalination plant by saving 30% of Sydney’s water consumption."
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Councillor Chris Harris


The prospect of twenty seven months of construction noise and dozens of trucks per day on your street would make the most stoic of residents unhappy.  And when your street is one of the quietest and most beautiful tree lined avenues in inner Sydney (pictured), unhappy doesn’t even begin to describe it.  Such was the [...]

At a Council meeting on the 15th of March, the Lord Mayor moved a mayoral minute (delivered to councillors 25 minutes before the meeting), which was supported Clover Moore Party “independents” and the Liberal Councillor, to abandon plans to build a skate park at the Millers Point site underneath a busy freeway (for background information on the site, [...]

I have serious concerns about the tender process that appears to have been designed to place the City’s tennis courts under the management of a single operator. Should the recommendation of council staff be adopted the operator at Ruchcutters Bay tennis courts will be tossed out after 25 years of service to the community. The [...]

Hot on the heels of their destruction of the habitat area at Orphan School Creek with the freshly laid concrete zig zag path, the Clover Moore Party are at it again across the road in Johnstons Canal with more habitat destruction.  The proposal is a bike path that links the shared pathway emerging from Orphan [...]

The Barangaroo Authority conducted a presentation of the design ideas of British architect Richard Rogers at the City Recital Hall on 23rd February. The presentation visuals showed attractive buildings and public spaces that interfaced with the water at the city’s western edge with a light rail service passing down Hickson Rd. One key component of the [...]