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Today Traveston;Tomorrow Tillegra
Wednesday 11 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.
Dr Kaye said: "Apart from being completely unnecessary and cripplingly expensive, Tillegra will be an environmental catastrophe.
"The Lower Hunter wetlands will be starved of the water they need to thrive by a dam that will cut the wild Williams River in half.
"Any open and independent environmental assessment of Tillegra would demand a rejection.
"Federal Minister Garrett has done the right thing in stopping the Bligh government destroy the Mary River in Queensland.
"It is time for him to use the same powers to kill off Tillegra before the Rees government destroys the Williams and the Lower Hunter wetlands.
"The Rudd government has delivered a massive victory for the people of the Mary Valley.
"Peter Garrett should now do the same for the Hunter community," Dr Kaye said.
For more information: John Kaye 0407 195 455



