Sign this petition. About time the Australian public is waking up to this scam. My family have been Australian farmers since 1849 and I have always been aware the climate has always been changing. The signing of the treaty in Copenhagen will not benefit the average Australian who will pay taxes to support those nations who will continue to pollute the world. The ETS will do nothing to stop climate change but will do a lot to tax the majority of Australian Citizens.

Come on Bob and Peter what do you really stand for!!!!!

You stop land clearing but how can you support the destruction of all that fertile soils within that valley?

Sorry Barnaby,
I disagree with you on this one. The Mary catchment is the only viable catchment remaining for Sth East Qld water. Wayne Goss taking advice from his political advisor K Rudd stopped the Wolfdean dam in an act of shear political opportunism. The land which had already been resumed was sold back. Fast forward to 2008... Severe water shortages. The existing dams, in particular the Wivenhoe dam which was built as a flood mitigation dam after the 1974 flood are in a rain shadow and only fill on rare occasions when a cyclonic depression comes so far south.
The Mary River catchment is far more reliable. What options remain? None!
Do we want to use the Southern California model and pump water thousands of kilometres? We do not have a snow melt to provide he water. The Clarence River is a possibility, but remember how long it took to get agreement on the Tugun bypass.
Already the Qld state government has put construction and engineering firms including many smaller local companies through a process where tens of millions of their dollars (not Government money) were applied to competing designs for the dam alliance selection criteria.
If this is now stopped for NO good reason, who is going to pay that money back?
Barnaby, you have taken a fact based approach to the climate change debate, but seem to have adopted a much less informed emotional or political approach to the Traveston dam.

The only other alternatives are;
Desalination.. Which dam protesters are going to endorse nuclear power to enable supply against their carbon panic?
Build a Berlin like wall around SE Qld to cap the population.

Let's not waste another opportunity to play catch up on water supply.

Again we have seen the poor decision making of the Queensland Government. It was clear that with the number of endangered species that this project would never get across the line given the federal legislation ... so why did she persist??

Anna says she is dissapointed!!!!! What about the wasted $600m and as usual the Queensland Government wants to blame someone else for its own failures.

The answer lays with Queensland Labor's three labor stooges.

But just remember this wasn't all Anna ... this failure by the Labor Government in Queensland goes all the way back to the work of the other two stooges, Wanye Goss and Kevin Rudd in the 1990's when they made the political decision to stop the Wolfdene Dam in south east Queensland.

Kevin hasn't learn't at all from the debacle he initiated with Goss and he is still up to his old tricks with the ETS........

Well I'm quite disgusted that Peter Garrett has caved in and is now trying to stop the Traveston Dam from being built.

As we know, the government wants to double the population of south-east Queensland to 6 million. We have just been through a drought with very tight water restrictions.

What are our options now?

We can build more desalination plants at a huge cost and make use of the water grid. Maybe we will even have to drink recycled sewage and hospital effluent.

Years ago, the Wolfdene Dam which would have had a huge capacity, was also knocked on the head.

We need to think about what is best for the wider community. Anna Bligh said she would try to save certain animal species, while also building the dam. That's good enough for me.

I don't like The Greens. They are dangerous people. They put animals and trees before human beings.

If Peter Garret gives the go ahead on that dam it will be environmental vandalism and I am not a greeny!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

But where should a dam go? Surely the people of Brisbane can't be expected to drink recycled sewage?

Got to take your hat off to Garrett. He delivered the result demanded by the locals and based it on science. If the Nationals and Barnaby are serious they will put a media release out immediately commended Garrett for his integrity in this matter. This result shows Rudd govt governing for the good of all people throughout our great nataion. Well done Kev & Peter. Time to stump up Barnaby and acknowledge the good work of the Federal Labour Party.

Science will mean nothing when the taps run dry.

Labor/The Greens may yet decide to turn the Traveston area over to the wildly fornicating possums and disease spreading bats, which currently proliferate in the squillions - decimating orchards and keeping people awake.

To my knowledge, you cannot relocate a noisy, damaging possum more than 6 metres from your home. By comparison, your dog has to snipped and chipped, and lie in his kennel sulking, while cavorting possums destroy everything in the neighbourhood, costing residents thousands of dollars.

I think this is the first time I have ever felt sorry for Anna Bligh.

She finally makes one good decision, which then gets squashed by the federal government, after she has already spent $600,000,000.

To all of the Greenish people commenting here:

"What are we going to do when human beings have no water left to drink?"

That's the bottom line.

Thank you for speaking and fighting on our behalf what a dreadful day if the ETS goes ahead. This is just another tax and a few people making a lot of money out of it.

Are we going to Copenhagen with a ETS passed thru the senate while the rest or the world signs a document of good intent, are we brain dead!

If there is such a dire threat just replace all our power stations with the latest generation nuclear power plants this give us 50 years to think about it, Australia's current power stations are all 1960's generation and the ability to use nuclear power station would give the generation company's a save investment, carbon free with a future the concept of clean coal is a joke when it proponents talk about pumping tetra tons of liquefied oxygen and carbon underground.

The dam this was a bad decision, in the current environment Warragamba dam could never be built there has to be some frog up there, you got this wrong history clearly shows that any nation that cannot provide water is doomed.

Gary

Hi, Gary Spencer:

Yes, you're right. If you want to stop the ETS from passing through the Senate next week, you could start lobbying Liberals via their blogs or by writing letters or sending emails.

Clearly Barnaby needs to stick up for his farmers, because they're his main voter base.

But the decision to curtail theTraveston Dam is surely a travesty for the people of SE Qld, especially after 1/3 of the projected $1.8 billion had already been spent.

What matters most? 300 rural people? Or 6 million citizens dying of thirst?

It still wouldn't surprise me if Labor/Greens wanted to turn the land over to possums.

Excellent decision on Traveston. It would be too shallow to be an effective dam. Industrial areas and house rooves are more effective water harvesters. Population growth is the cause of our lack of water. Government departments are very happy to encourage new developments, it seems without consideration of where the water will come from to service these new areas.

An ETS uses fictious shares and runs the risk of the Government secretly dealing out credits to high carbon producers, a trading collapse, negative fixing of prices. It is as dodgy as the reasons for the financial collapse in the US. A carbon tax can put a real price on carbon and promote the production of renewable energy. What is wrong with beginning with solar panels on every roof? We are sunny Australia after all. Nuclear has waste issues and requires more water than we have to spare. Solar will become cheaper if more people use it.

Hi Lorikeet,
We need to look after our rural people.They are providing us with the best fresh food in the world. Ask any foreigner. Our dairy farmers are a dying race. We are the ones that have to save water. I am more afraid of having to eat coal as I have a rain water tank. (Coal production is also using up our precious water resorces and covering our food producing areas.)

while I totally support choices approach on the BTS and the nonsense being perpetrated by Rudd it is extremely disappointing to see him support the Mary River turtles etc and Peter Garrett over 2.5 million Australian taxpaying citizens. This is a travesty

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I sent a letter to Mr Garrett on the 28th October 2009 requesting a meeting to discuss Traveston Dam and as yet he has not replied. It appears that hypocrisy will walk hand in hand with arrogance and this has personified Labor’s approach to the Traveston Dam.