by Ned K.
A few years ago, during drought conditions in South Australia, the SA
Rann Government was easily seduced by a multinational company and engineering
companies who said that the security of water supply for South Australia was in
the construction of a 50GL desalination plant at Port Stanvac south of
Adelaide.
Rann was then further seduced in to
agreeing to double the capacity of the plant to 100GL!
This project gave rise to many new
activists who had concerns about the impact of the plant on marine life in the
Gulf of St Vincent. Although small in number they continue to be a headache for
the SA Government led by a more respected leader in Jay Weatherill.
Just 50 kilometres to the north of
Adelaide is the Salisbury wetlands, and the local Council’s highly successful
and world renowned stormwater recycling system. One of its architects and
staunch critic of the desalination plant is Colin Pittman. He points out that
the stormwater recycling system has the capacity to increase its holding
capacity from the current 10GL to 50GL, the capacity of the originally planned
desalination plant. And the cost? One tenth of the cost of the construction of
the desalination plant!
Again, here is an example of this profit-driven
system where governments are controlled and influenced by the minority rich
corporations providing a disastrous and costly outcome to the ordinary people.
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