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Frog flies flag for anti-dam camp

23 Nov, 2009 05:10 PM
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.

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Keep fighting, Labor has to learn that they cannot just walk over Australians. They purport to care about the environment but seldom do any thing to curb urban expansion or to stop the majority of wasteful city people. Traveston Dam gone, Caroona Action group doing a great job, Tillegra next. Transgrid line near Tenterfield has to go too, and Glen Innes wind farm. When will it ever stop? Maybe after the next election when Labor gets the boot.
Posted by High Country Gent, 24/11/2009 8:48:00 AM
Have just heard that Peter Garrett has delayed by a week his final "NO" decision on the Traveston Dam to consider new and relevant information, so the ANTI MOB can sweat for another week...
Posted by D.Mulder, 24/11/2009 4:43:09 PM

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Jay Dillon with daughters (from left) Susannah, Felicity, Julia and Pip, had to sell their Dungog property early to avoid the Tillegra Dam-initiated rush for alternative land.
Jay Dillon with daughters (from left) Susannah, Felicity, Julia and Pip, had to sell their Dungog property early to avoid the Tillegra Dam-initiated "rush" for alternative land.

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