Tillegra DamThe 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. Read John's speech in Parliament on 9 September 2009 Visit the No Tillegra Dam Group website for more information 
Feature: Government ignored expert advice to put Tillegra on hold
07 February 2010
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
14 January 2010
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
21 December 2009
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
08 December 2009
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?
25 November 2009
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
16 November 2009
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
13 November 2009
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
12 November 2009
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. 
Another lid lifted on Tillegra secrecy
20 October 2009
The NSW Upper House this afternoon ordered the Department of Environment, Climate Change and Water and its Ministers to produce documents relating to the Tillegra dam proposal originating in the period March 2007 to January 2009, according to Greens NSW MP John Kaye. 
Tillegra fails environmental, social and economic tests
10 September 2009
Hunter Water's Environmental Assessment of the proposed Tillegra dam, released last night, sweeps aside unacceptable impacts on the ecology of the Williams River and the economy, according to Greens NSW MP John Kaye. Document Actions |
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