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Tillegra Dam
News about the Greens campaign to stop construction of Tillegra Dam, in the Hunter Valley
Adjournment Speech: Tillegra Dam an expensive mistake
Wednesday 04 June 2008
In the lead-up to the 2007 State election Premier Morris Iemma interfered in the planning of the lower Hunter's water supply by announcing that a dam would be built at Tillegra. The proposed impoundment of the Williams River north of Dungog would create a storage larger than Sydney Harbour, with potentially disastrous consequences not only for farmers and the local community, but also for budgets of households in the lower Hunter.
Tillegra dam project could blow out Hunter water bills by 88%
Thursday 22 May 2008
Hunter Water’s insistence on building a dam to create a storage the size of Sydney Harbour on the Williams River north of Dungog will not only devastate the local environment. It will ravage household budgets, all for water supply that is not needed, according to Greens NSW MP John Kaye.
