The centre of this scene is where Steve Bracks and the Victorian labour party has nominated to build a desalination plant to supply Melbourne with water…not only the aesthetic beauty of a coastline that has attracted hundreds of thousands of people every year and welcomed locals home for over a century to be altered for ever… but the environmental impacts of such a development is not wanted…... / As usual governments would never get away with such developments in places such as Port Phillip bay or Brighton beach…Do you ever see wind turbines in such politically crucial or affluent locations or in the the premiers own backyard ? ? ? NOT IN MY BACKYARD THANKS ! ! see more photographic works from this beautiful coast / NO DESAL on the Bass Coast
The day comes to a closure with one last encore performance from mother nature over this special place – The Mouth of the Powlett River. see more photographic works from this beautiful coast / NO DESAL on the Bass Coast This scene is within 500m of the proposed location for the state Labor government’s desalination plant to supply Melbourne with more water…At what environmental cost? the local land and marine environments… plus the enormously ineffective energy consumption to fuel the process, added marine salinity to our beloved coast which sees Southern Right Whales migrate, penguins,seals,sharks and all their friends and foes… / There is yet to even have been an envirnmental effects statement done – demand one tomorrow (Wed 31st Oct) @ noon on parliament steps in Melbourne ! more info and pledge your support @ http://www.yourwateryoursay.org/
The old railway trestle bridge on the beach at Kilcunda – was the site today of a protest in rejection to the Victorian state Labor government’s proposal to build a desalination plant on this coast to supply Melbourne with water.. The Honoury Senator Bob Brown spoke before a crowd of hundreds… / Did you know that each home in Melbourne has 8times the amount of water they use fall on their roof as rain – free from the heavens…and where does it go… / / / / Canon EOS A2, Fuji Velvia 50. / ©T.Middleton2007 —-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—— / / / see more photographic works from this beautiful coast / NO DESAL on the Bass Coast / / see recent humpback whales photographed breaching on this beautiful coast / Humpback whales on the Bass Coast / / see more about these issues effecting this beautiful coast / Your water – your say
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