Acting Acting Water Minister Jeff Seeney has announced a welcome $80 gift to soften the blow of the skyrocketing price of water in Queensland. The LNP will spend $92 million on the gift, possibly another few million administering the gift, and another million on publicity telling us how kind the LNP is to give us back some of the money we entrusted to them.
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Another Water "Entity"
The Queensland Government has wasted millions on failed water projects over many years. The latest re - re - re - re labeling stunt is the LNP's "single bulk water authority", Seqwater. It will do what a government agency should have been doing all along.
The failed Water Commission has wasted millions. At least it gave Queensland dodgy shower timers and fridge magnets. Their role was to look busy during the drought and distract attention from the Government.
"Better planning," the Acting Minister says.
"Better decision making," the Acting Minister says.
Where is the apology that Parliament failed the people of Queensland with dud decisions, duplication, fancy public relationers and stunts. The LNP ran dead when the money was being thrown around. They claim they will be "reducing the upward pressure on water prices." The LNP needs people to increase water use to generate revenue.
Water Minister, Mark McArdle says SEQWATER will create safe, reliable, sustainable and lowest cost possible water ... after bureaucrats are paid out and failed projects paid off.
Acting Water Minister in January is Andrew Cripps.
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Flashback to August 2008
http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=7101187326197196285#editor/target=post;postID=1641954185294690611
Steven Wardill - Courier Mail
ALMOST $40,000 worth of water a day is being flushed by the State Government as it refuses to use its flagship recycling pipeline to supply households.
ALMOST $40,000 worth of water a day is being flushed by the State Government as it refuses to use its flagship recycling pipeline to supply households.
The Courier-Mail can reveal 33 million litres of water a day are being passed through the high-priced purification process and then ditched in the Brisbane River. The 33ML would be valued at nearly $15 million a year if sold to council-run retailers at the current wholesale price, rising to in excess of $73 million based on the rate at which it is sold on to households. The revelation comes as southeast residents are encouraged to conserve water while being hit with higher bills to pay off the pipeline and drought-proofing infrastructure.
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