The message is clear
The State Labor Government is imploding – ministers are resigning, members are pledging to not stand at the next election – and the rot started with the Iemma Government, yes the same Premier who announced the Tillegra Dam proposal to divert media and public attention away from the Milton Orkopoulos scandal prior to the last election.
Hunter Water is stuck in the past where government utilities had all the sway and being a profit focussed corporation is slave to its master, the shareholder, the state government. It doesn’t even follow its own peak industry body’s (Water Services Association of Australia) guidelines which emphasise an open, flexible, consensus-building planning process that fully engages the community in the early planning stage and implements integrated resource planning where supply management and demand management options, efficiency and diversity are encouraged.
The community and the media are overwhelmingly against this foolish scheme. The experts are speaking up – HWC’s “commitments still seem to be avoiding best practice requirements”.
Scrap this proposal and revisit the whole process. The message is clear NSW State Labor’s only chance is to show true leadership, show some merit and listen to their electors.