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Tillegra Dam
The NSW Labor government is set to impose this massive water supply project on Newcastle residents. The Greens NSW are campaigning to stop construction of Tillegra Dam in the Hunter Valley as expensive, unnecessary and socially and environmentally damaging.
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Feature: Garrett has $1.5 million investment in rejecting Tillegra
In mid-2009 the Rudd government recognised that the Hunter River Estuary was one of just 13 coastal hotspots throughout Australia requiring assistance to survive. Environment Minister Peter Garrett provided $1.47 million for repair, rehabilitation and other improvements to the wetlands and other habitat at the mouth of the Hunter River.
Feature: Key NSW government agency warns Tillegra Dam risks devastating fish and prawn industries
The NSW Department of Industry and Investment’s (II-NSW) official submission to the Tillegra Dam environmental assessment process savagely criticised the project, warning that the prawn and fishing industry in the Hunter would be at risk.
Feature: Government ignored expert advice to put Tillegra on hold
In November 2008 the NSW government was warned of serious flaws in Hunter Water’s case for Tillegra dam by its own senior experts in an official response to a request for advice from Water Minister Phil Costa. The Minister was officially advised by his own department to not renew the directive to the pricing regulator to pursue the dam. This would have put Tillegra on hold. For fifteen months, the Rees and Keneally government continued to express public confidence in Hunter Water despite being told that their inflow and demand predictions were in doubt.
Tillegra Environment Assessment hides risk of $1 bn blow-out
The Keneally government and Hunter Water are hiding the risk that Tillegra dam could double in cost because of the site's complex geological features, with appalling consequences for the state's borrowings and household water bills, according to Greens NSW MP John Kaye.
Key NSW govt agencies can Tillegra Environment Assessment
The NSW government has been further embarrassed by their own agencies' scathing criticism of the Tillegra dam proposal and Hunter Water's Environmental Assessment Report for the $477 million water storage project, according to Greens NSW MP John Kaye.
Hunter residents say can the dam
A Roy Morgan survey of 377 residents in four state seats in the Hunter has shown overwhelming opposition to the proposed $477 million Tillegra Dam.
Tillegra audit threat: where’s the business case?
The NSW Auditor-General has called on the Rees government to produce a business case for Tillegra Dam near Dungog before it approves the $477 million development. Mr Achterstraat has also threatened Hunter Water with a performance audit of the project.
Tillegra Environmental assessment in tatters
The credibility of the Environmental Assessment Report for the proposed Tillegra Dam near Dungog has been dealt two fatal blows, according to Greens NSW MP John Kaye.
Rees govt told by own expert Tillegra not needed
An October 2008 email from a senior public servant to Minister for Water Phil Costa's office told the Rees government that the $477 million Tillegra Dam in the Hunter near Dungog had been poorly planned and would not be needed for another 30 years, according to Greens NSW MP John Kaye.
Today Traveston;Tomorrow Tillegra
Federal Environment Minister Peter Garrett should apply the same standard of scrutiny to Tillegra Dam in the Upper Hunter that led him to reject Queensland's Traveston project, according to Greens NSW MP John Kaye.
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