No rest for the people who saved the Mary River from getting dammed at Traveston. The Bligh government is committing another water folly with its northern connector pipeline which will endanger the river’s health all over again. David Kreutz of the Save the Mary River Coordinating Group explained that piping water out of the river to Brisbane will still endanger the lungfish, the turtle and the cod that stopped the Traveston dam.
What’s Going On? on Tuesday 9 February also reported on
- the resistance against desalination plans for Marcoola,
- saving on power bills and potentially even making money from solar power,
- the horrific lives of Cambodian girls sold into sex slavery,
- a Noosa group helping to build high-tech orphanages in Kenya,
- and a deal with Council for twice-monthly Peregian Originals until a review in November.
The people opposing a salt water desalination plant proposed for Marcoola by the Queensland government had two public meetings recently. The president of Communities Against Desalination, Debbie Johnson, brought us up to speed.
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We began by asking David Kreutz what the northern connector pipeline is supposed to do.
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Some of us have been thinking about heating our household water with sunshine and perhaps even producing power with the sun. Then there was a letter pooh-poohing the idea in the Sunshine Coast Daily. Time to get the facts, so Diet I rang Jennifer Mazoudier, who works in the industry.
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Ten thousand dollars is available interest-free from the federal government, repayable at 48 dollars a week. Diet suggested to Jennifer that considering the savings on their power bills, most households could afford that.
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You’ll need strong nerves to stay with us for the next story: the horrors perpetrated on Cambodian girls sold into sex slavery. A Coast woman, Nicky Mih, has just spent a month in that country to help them and to find out what people here could do for them. A book by Somaly Mam, who was sold into sex slavery as a girl herself and now helps to rescue others, inspired Nicky to take action. She told Alfie Noakes she was a bit scared at what to expect before she left.
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Alfie found it hard to grasp that this kind of abuse still goes on.
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Alfie asked Nicky whether any kind of community care is available to the girls.
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You can email Nicky at nicky@inspired-living.net.au. She’s also on Facebook under Nicky Mih. To something happier now. Stephen Hollins of Sunrise Beach has set up 15 orphanages and 19 schools in the Philippines and has just returned from setting up his latest there. He did all but the last by himself. The last was built by a registered charity, “Precious Jewels Foundation”, which he’s formed to canvas community support. Precious Jewels are now planning and starting an environmental village project in Mombasa, Kenya. Stephen told a group in Doonan about it.
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David Kelsey, from Noosa Heads, is the project manager.
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Gill Norman of “Avante Films”, a Doonan-based enterprise, is making a film about the project to publicise it and talked about fundraising efforts in support of it.
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Some good news for Coast open-air music lovers: Council has agreed to keep Peregian Originals running twice monthly for at least this year, with conditions. Frank Wilkie explains:
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Unless something unforeseen and really big happens before then, the next What’s Going On? will be about a rebellious Aboriginal conference in Canberra which Diet attended. Contact What’s Going On? by emailing markrzz@bigpond.com or phone 5447 2233 during business hours.
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