Premier Brumby and Water Minister Holding have shown total disregard for rural Victorians and the Goulburn-Murray environment by insisting on taking 10 Billion litres of the Water Quality Reserve to Melbourne, via the North-South Pipeline, where it will be used for the luxury of watering gardens. There are absolutely no restrictions on water usage in Melbourne households.

Thank you for the opportunity to discuss our submission with you,

I thought I would use my 20minutes to focus on the impact on flora and fauna.

although I would ask you to also note that we are also very concerned with social and economic impacts of the project, the production of greenhouse gases during construction and operation

In fact we would ask that energy for the operation of the pipeline be sourced solely from renewable sources (not offsets)

Advisory Committee

Sugarloaf Interconnector Pipeline Project                                                      18th March, 2008

Via email         michael.crossman@dpcd.vic.gov.au

Dear Ms Mitchell, 

I write to express our grave concerns with the Sugarloaf Interconnector Pipeline project.