Come clean Kristina
Jan 21st, 2010 |
Joanne McCarthy in an open letter to the Premier Kristina Keneally in the Newcastle Herald today clearly implores the Premier to Dump the dam, ma’am. Her points are simple and succinct:
- Projects that have been foisted on their communities for political reasons and that don’t stack up under sustained scrutiny from many different analysts including some from within government departments (in the case of Tillegra – Department of Environment, Climate Change and Water, Department of Investment and Industry, NSW Office of Water, and the Hunter-Central Rivers Catchment Management Authority), and despite political and bureaucratic stonewalling can be reversed e.g. Sydney’s underground CBD Metro.
- The cost of the Tillegra project is being forced on Hunter residents.
- The need for the dam has not been justified.
- ‘HWC has used outdated information, simplistic approaches to data analysis and in some cases, has misused data to promote Tillegra as necessary for the Hunter.’
- The process has been flawed and full of misleading spin.
- The community will not re-elect a party that it can’t trust.
Premier you will need to make your mind up knowing that the community already has made its.