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This project will only create employment & thats what the Sunshine Coast needs.The Longer this project goes on the better. It's about time the goverment has got something right.

the landowners are being compensated, aren't they?-
it would be nice to get the whole story, rather than just the "boo hoo, poor poor me" part

Boost the Sunny Coast population to 3.5 - 4.5 million with plenty of high rises in residential areas.
Then up the rates by 50%, that should pay for some desal plants and make all those happy who want more development.
Maroochydore in particular is very underpopulated and could easily stand a tripling of it's population.

So what does the existing pipeline do? STEALS water from the MARY RIVER!!
I don't hear DESAL Bob offering to sever the existing pipeline ties to the MARY RIVER.
If the water is already overallocated then get the people who are using it to offer up their entiltlement, we heard plenty of DON'T MURRAY THE MARY cries from the NO DAM lobby during Traveston. Sureley the caring river friendly, turtle cuddling, lungfish loving farmers would have no propblems with that.
We heard lots about sustainability, sustainable farming in my mind, is when you use only the resources on your land for farming etc, not sucking megalitres of water to spray into the air as supposed irrigation.
If you want the powers to be to take you seriuosly then you have to show them you are also serious.

Whilst those residents won't be happy that the Go Ahead has been given, decisions made by the ALP government in this state will come back to haunt the ALP for placing us on a path of destruction -especially when it's all about feeding certain sections with more and more. Whilst it's also about population growth; where is the debate and I note that NSW wants our water?

It is definitely nonsensical to lay 1200mm pipes to take water that flowed from the Mary River through 600 mm pipes to council's Lake Macdonald treatment plant. It is a similarity of the Iranian approach, camouflage the construction purpose into painful consequences against the peoples will.
I see this state government is putting the ground foundation into place as a decoy and the next thing the Traverstone Crossing Dam pops up on it's own if you like it or not...!

So instead of the Mary River being dammed it's to be drained . I don't think Peter Garrett really gives a damn about the Mary River lungfish or turtles after all . To add insult to injury the likely soon to be privatised Queensland water grid is going to sell water to New South Wales . What a corrupt and rotten State this is .

I just heard that north NSW is about build a pipeline to QLD to take some more of our water. Do we have to look at a future that does not include water?

Why are we spending money on this Pipeline? The money would be better spent on building our much needed hospital NOW!!!
Imagine how much employment a hospital would create, not only during construction, but for years to come and how much more would it benefit the people who actually live here.
The original pipeline was supposed to have pumps that could return water to our coast in times of need but it has actually been fitted with pumps that will only go in the one direction - South!!!
Can we really trust the people in charge of this project.
It was the builders of the pipeline who initially refused to realign the path which would easily save almost 150 trees through a parkland area, until I invited the local news to do an article.
We must let those in power understand we need a hospital now, we do not need to lose our water, especially if our population growth is planned to expand.

I want to see that pipeline indiscriminately carve up the countryside and be a true blight on our landscape.

I want to see that pipeline go all the way to Cairns and down South to Northern Rivers.

I want and end to the sub-standard Governments we have at State and Federal Level; their incompetencies, their bickering, the wasting of funds.

I dont suppose they would take the opportunity to lay fibre or copper or any other infrastructure type cabling whilst they are laying that pipeline .. nah .. lets waste more money later when we get around to laying fibre or copper or whatever.

PLAN people PLAN... please.

The Peanut Gallery:
Have a look where Optus has laid out its fibre-optic cable. Telstra will probably follow the same path which was on the Old Bruce Highway easement. (sufficient for a 6 lane highway and now growing feral slash pine) resumed from properties when the New Bruce Highway was going through its tortuous planning, We asked at the time why the water pipeline proposed back then could not be laid in conjunction with this as well as putting the existing energex lines underground at the same time. The answer I was given was that for that to happen Departments would need to actually talk together and that was impossible! The Commissioner for Main Roads is reported to have said when asked why the pipeline could not be laid beside the Old Bruce Highway too, that he would not allow it beside HIS road A further gripe : the digging severed water pipes and phone line despite the diggers being shown whre they were. The Telstra phone line 2 years later was shown to be still faulty owing to being cobbled together by Optus (not their problem!) and the severed water pipe repairs numbered 6 attempts that we know about and is still leaking. For planning to suceed in Queensland without waste, someone would need to bang heads together and stop this nonsense of Departments operating as fiefdoms. On with the next waste project and I'm not talking sewage

garfield: "This project will only create employment & thats what the Sunshine Coast needs.The Longer this project goes on the better."
Fine, if there was a decent amount of local employment, or even flow on from such a project, even if the project itself is STUPID, as it is.
But..................
It's pretty rare for local companies to get to be major contractors in major projects and those 'mates' that get the contracts bring their own big earners to take the money elsewhere.
So locals get the crumbs. I guess it's something, but at what real gain and at what cost.
Only the simple would see any benefit from this pipeline for the local area. Short term project for short term thinkers.

Actually nambour_res, I believe no compensation is paid. They just come in, dig up your property, steal your soil and create an easement. That means you can no longer use than easement. It is a utterly silly proposal and just another way to punish the majority of the Sunshine Coast residents for not voting Labour.

"...the interconnector must meet strict environmental conditions".

Yes, and we all know how that will go, don't we?

No doubt these "strict environmental contitions" will be observed just like the ones at the Paradise dam - where the government is currently fighting AGAINST meeting environmental standards and conditions and AGAINST helping the lungfish.

Just like all the other high "environmental standards" that are upheld - like all the koalas that Powerlink is about to kill. It's environmentally friendly murder.

john_fogarty gets it in a nutshell I reckon. Drained instead of dammed. How depressing.

And Lorelei too - "On with the next waste project...".

This is what happens when there's no opposition. A one horse race. Dangerous stuff.

Shame on you, Peter. No faith, no confidence, no respect.

As far as I'm concerned, you have a GREAT DEAL more to answer for than the insulation in the ceiling.

If I was to sack you for anything - I think it would be for your total, embarassing impotence over the criminal Japanese butcher pirates in our waters. Australia is a whaling nation by proxy on YOUR WATCH PETER! How do you sleep?

But, then again, I dunno, tough call. Pulp mill, uranium mine, oil and gas field in pristine waters, insane pipeline...

Oh, stuff it. You are just SACKED !

Does anybody know any local firms employed on this great project? I have only heard of the firms that have missed out. The big thing is for this project to have a chance of success is to employ local knowledge. I'm sick of pipeline vehicles sinking up to their axles in ever-green (and usually wet!) Yandina because the drivers haven't a clue how to avoid trouble, despite being told.
Nambour res: the easement the pipeline is using was owned by Energex and was taken over for the pipeline as a critical infrastructure easement. There will be no compensation for easement land as I understand it. Any extra land temporarily used will attract compensation that has to be justified by a truly awful process if the previous resumptions are anything to go by. That is why the route for the laying of the pipe follows the previous easement that had no agreement about anything else but overhead powerlines.

Yes Peter Garrett.You tried to sound good by canning Traveston and now you plan to suck the Mary dry. How can little Coles' creek supply these huge, voracious pipes? You should feel huge embarrassment for circumventing your previous decision over Traveston.
There was a small par in the Brisbane paper headed: "Mary water goes to Brisbane". It is enough to make anyone sick! Where are you Barnaby, we need you to tell it like it is.