Anti-Traveston dam campaigner, David Kreutz, argues that the state government is asking Queenslanders to pay 60 times more than they need to to secure water for Brisbane. He elaborates. The Mary River has again stopped flowing, which anti-dam campaigner and local scientist Tanzi Smith sees as an ominous threat to the heritage-listed estuary at Harvey Bay. Ecologist Lyndon De Vantier points out absurdities in the dam plan that he’s communicated to Rudd and Garrett. It’s not all doom and gloom among the Mary Valley folk, who’ve just had an enjoyable fundraiser that Victor Hill recalls. Protest leader, Glenda Pickersgill, an environment scientist, has addressed an international conference and lobbied politicians of all parties in Canberra. Diet Simon was the interviewer for the 21 October “What’s Going On?”.

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