UNLIKE their rejoicing Queensland cousins, anti-dam campaigners in NSW's Hunter Valley do not have an endangered lungfish to save the DUngog district from the unwanted Tillegra Dam - but there is a stuttering frog and four bat species.
Farmers at Dungog are hoping the Federal Government's veto of the controversial Traveston Dam in southern Queensland on environmental grounds is a good omen for their efforts to stop the proposed Tillegra project which is intended to supplement the Hunter and Central Coast's water neds.
"It vertainly gives us heart," said No Tillegra Dam's deputy secretary, Carol Pasenow.
See the full story in The Land this week.