Sunday, December 23, 2007

Victorian Govt -enviro disaster

I am starting to realise that the State Government of Victoria Australia are an environmental disaster, making key decisions that are all undermining the environmental integrity of the state and putting at risk key long term sustainability. Witness:
  • a 3b dollar desalination plant which will create 60 per cent waste product and 200 kg of greenhouse gas per Victorian
  • pipeline to pipe water OUT of the Goulburn Valley, a food basket area into Metro Melbourne
  • dredging of Port Philip Bay at high cost with dubious economic return
  • construction of a new freeway link Eastlink with no corresponding rail link
  • the consideration of $12b of additional roads and road tunnels
  • the refusal to invest in additional rail capacity eg no new lines, paltry number of new trains
  • failure of 2020 strategy for metropolitan Melbourne
Taken alone each decision is environmentally concerning. Combined together they are all evidence of 1950s type solutions which are running roughshod over serious environmental concerns.

Where is the serious responses to peak oil, greenhouse gases, water shortages and food security?

Not from the Brumby Government of Victoria. Sadly not from the opposition either.

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