Andrew Bolt,Herald Sun (Australia)
"Not a single new dam has been built to supply an Australian capital city since Melbourne’s Thomson Dam was hooked up in 1984 - with the sole exception of South-East Queensland ‘s Wyaralong dam, completed just in time for these recent rains to start filling it.
In that time:
- Every capital city on the mainland has been subjected to water restrictions
- NSW banned the Welcome Reef dam in 2002 in on environmental grounds.
- The Rudd Government banned a mega-dam on Queensland’s Mary River to “save” the lungfish.
- The Victorian Labor Government turned a dam reservation on the fast-flowing Mitchell River into a national park instead to stop any new dam.
- The Queensland and Victorian Labor Governments claimed global warming would dry up the rains anyway, making a new dam useless.
- Queensland built instead a $1.1 desalination plant, now mothballed because of the rains.
- Victoria built instead a $5.7 billion desalination plant, costing four times the price of a new dam for a third of the water.
With luck, these rains will be the cold shower we needed to snap out of this insanity."
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