Vale Traveston Crossing

With the Queensland Government releasing the 1600 page Environmental Impact Statement for the Dam on the Mary River at Traveston Crossing, and it's availability for public comment from the Coordinator Generals Office, we see those same words that control and focus opinion and objection, and negate many of the underlying relevant issues by omitting them for the 'Terms of Refference"

The Mary river and it's inhabitant native fauna have survived generations of human interferance and unsustainable uses, even providing some of the highest quality primary production land in Queensland, and it is against all odds that this has happened, yet still it has.

Sadly until now, the Mary river has never had to sustain itself against the evil of all evils, money, or the one land use from which there is no turning back, development.

People who have known the valley at traveston , and have fished that river section, or watched the turtles ripple the surface, or just relaxed and swam there, will know this is a good place and should be left untouched.


Why ?

It seems that Party politics is at the heart of this, and I know it's a long hop from a creek bed to Parliament House, but the route is far trickier and more dangerous, because it is lined with money.

One of the main things holding back development in SEQ is lack of infrastructure, because in this term the Beattie/ Bligh Government nas barely provided any to meet the needs of the growth they have pro actively sought for this region, and growth has been significant and has already strained existing infrastructure to breaking point, yet still the Bligh Government calls for more.

Water provision has been one of the main issues and development north of Brisbane would have been increased if there was water to provide but there isn't any, all SEQ dams are low so development in greenfield sites has been held up by councils wanting developers to pay their share of infrastructure provision costs, which is , of course, at odds with a high profit bottom line.

Added to that is the fact tha many developers contribute millions of dollars to the electoral funds of politicians and even though they get huge taxation advantages from it they still want a second return on that money and the enormous profit as well.

The utter arrogance and self intrest of the Qld Labor Party Leader, Anna Bligh, just defies description and if this is an example of what we can expect in the Federal Labor Leader then No thanks.