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Citizens Electoral Council of Australia

Media Release  11th of January 2011

Craig Isherwood‚ National Secretary
PO Box 376‚ COBURG‚ VIC 3058
Phone: 03 9354 0544 Fax: 03 9354 0166
Email: cec@cecaust.com.au
Website: http://cec.cecaust.com.au
 

Big dams: has Tony Abbott joined the CEC?

Opposition Leader Tony Abbott’s call for more dams for flood mitigation echoes what the Citizens Electoral Council, uniquely among Australian political parties, has pushed for two decades, said CEC leader Craig Isherwood today.

“Has Tony Abbott joined the fight, or is he being cynically opportunistic?” Mr Isherwood questioned.

“He’d better be prepared to fight, because it isn’t a few feral greenies stopping dams, it’s the very British Crown to whom he is so loyal, namely Prince Philip himself, and the organisations he created to impose green fascism on Australia—the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), the Australian Conservation Foundation (ACF) and the WWF’s Wentworth Group of Concerned Scientists.” [ Click here for details in the Dec 2010/Jan 2011 New Citizen. ]

Mr Isherwood observed that most of the media-anointed experts who’ve come out against Abbott’s proposal are citing as their reason the impact of dams on “wetlands”, just as the so-called Ramsar wetlands are being used to shut down irrigation in the Murray-Darling Basin:

“The predictable opponents to dams have started up like a chorus of croaking cane toads, and their ideas are just as ugly,” he said.

“They are mouthpieces for a scientific scam, peddled by Prince Philip’s WWF through its Ramsar Convention, to relabel mosquito-infested swamps as ‘wetlands’, which, to ‘conserve’, must be protected from any and all human activity; in this case—drought-proofing, flood-mitigating dams.

“What a load of rubbish!” he exclaimed, concluding, “If Tony Abbott wants to fight for a truly scientific approach to Australia’s development, he should champion the great water infrastructure projects detailed in the CEC’s 2002 ‘Infrastructure Road to Recovery’ report, which, if constructed, would have largely mitigated the recent disastrous floods in Queensland.”

For information on the following water projects featured in the “Infrastructure Road to recovery”, click on the following links:

     The Bradfield Scheme & The Reid Scheme
     The Dawson Scheme & The Burnett River
     The Fitzroy River, the Ord and Victoria Rivers

For a free copy of the full 35-page “Infrastructure Road to Recovery” special report, click here.

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