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They could power the desal plant with wind or solar.
They are that bloody stupid.
Warwick, do I interpret a degree of cynicism in todays blog?
Just because we have over $20 billion worth of seawater
desalination plants sitting idle around Australia and probably
another couple of $ billion on care and maintenance, how can another billion or so for the Sunshine Coast desal plant possibly hurt the Queensland Government, after all it’s not their money.
The continuing irony “stupidity”, is their constant blame for building these expensive, noisy, polluting monstrosities is the need for more water, because climate change/global warming,caused by high CO2 emissions has caused the “water crisis” in the first place, so another couple of hundred thousand tonnes more can’t really hurt can it?
The timing seems to be right to tie politicians excessive salaries and benefits to their annual performance, by the introduction of performance based salaries, similar to those
paid to Boards and Senior Executives of large Public Companies.
Waterguru
Warwick, you underestimate the rainfall in what is officially the Sunshine Coast.
The average rainfall over 125 yrs at my place is 1.80m. The record, in 1898, is 4.0 m. The main dam is at Maleny, called the Baroon Pocket dam which has an official station on BOM 040850 opened in 1992 (when the record shows 395mm on one day on 22nd Feb). This dam usually is full -so much that Qld Water put in a pipeline to augment Brisbane water use. There are at least three places on the Obi Obi creek ( which feeds the Mary river) down stream where additional dams of good depth could be built but were overlooked for the political decision to build the shallow Traveston dam on the Mary river which would have lost most of its holding through evaporation while flooding valuable diary country close to Gympie.
Another, huge water source which the Labor government dismissed is ground water in the North Noosa national park. Anyone driving on the beach (North Noosa to Double Island Point) will see water flowing into the sea every day of the year. I have seen a report that showed that a draw down of 1 m would supply the whole of the Sunshine Coast for one year while not considering any inflow from rain. The Greens of course do not want the National Park touched.
The Sunshine Coast mayor (Jamison) appears to be a closet green. He proposed and pushed council into erecting a useless solar farm (I think 15MW) at Valdora. The solar panels are fixed and reminds me of the German Solar farm with weeds growing through the panels. I wonder if it will be shut down when the new runway (International) at the Airport is completed, the panels face east in the direct of the runway.
Thanks cement for pointing that out. I only used the 1.5metres from the broad rain contours on the BoM map of Qld av rain. I expect there would be many useful dam sites and you say groundwater wastes to the sea – like south of Perth. SE Q Water are off planet earth somewhere else.