For years we've heard the Greens telling everyone that Carbon was going to kill off the Barrier Reef - which is why Gillard is putting on the carbon tax

Now the Greens are telling us "it's the dredging"

They want a dredging tax now?

http://au.news.yahoo.com/a/-/newshome/11455462/dredging-killing-off-reef-govt-told/

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Senator Stephen Conroy, representing Environment Minister Tony Burke, replied that Fisheries Queensland had imposed the fishing ban while they investigated infection outbreaks in barramundi and other fish.

"No links were found between the fish disease and water quality," Senator Conroy told the Senate.

"Water quality testing has shown little change other than seasonal variation for water quality since dredging began."

Senator Conroy said the dredging was carried out in accordance with "stringent conditions of approval and environmental management plans" and the latest testing had found a "parasitic flatworm" was the cause of the fish disease in Barramundi.

Senator Conroy said authorities were monitoring the situation.

In July, the United Nation's environmental arm criticised the Queensland and Australian governments for allowing gas processing on reef's doorstep.

UNESCO said it was concerned three processing plants under construction on Curtis Island, near Gladstone, could affect the "overall universal value" of the reef.

It also said the government had failed to tell it about approvals for the three plants, in breach of World Heritage guidelines.


not just the greens macca...

and lets not forget... the States would need approval from the Feds to go ahead with all this....


so whats the deal with GW and the CARBON TAX then?????????????????.

will, or wont that save the reef??????????????????????????

it gets stranger by the minute...one minute its industry that is killing everything the next its the LABOR govts/ ;D ;D

Maqqa wrote on Nov 8^th, 2011 at 5:30am:

For years we've heard the Greens telling everyone that Carbon was going to kill off the Barrier Reef - which is why Gillard is putting on the carbon tax Now the Greens are telling us "it's the dredging" They want a dredging tax now?

I know this may be a complex concept for you maqqa but it's quite possible that they are BOTH damaging the reef. It doesn't have to be either/or

Maqqa wrote on Nov 8^th, 2011 at 5:30am:

For years we've heard the Greens telling everyone that Carbon was going to kill off the Barrier Reef - which is why Gillard is putting on the carbon tax Now the Greens are telling us "it's the dredging" They want a dredging tax now? http://au.news.yahoo.com/a/-/newshome/11455462/dredging-killing-off-reef-govt-told/

and rightfully so !! Just look at the mess they are making to the barrier reef with their insatiable greed to extract the last drop of gas from the planet  :(

http://www.abc.net.au/4corners/stories/2011/11/03/3355047.htm

The_Barnacle wrote on Nov 8^th, 2011 at 8:35pm:

Maqqa wrote on Nov 8th, 2011 at 5:30am: For years we've heard the Greens telling everyone that Carbon was going to kill off the Barrier Reef - which is why Gillard is putting on the carbon tax Now the Greens are telling us "it's the dredging" They want a dredging tax now? I know this may be a complex concept for you maqqa but it's quite possible that they are BOTH damaging the reef. It doesn't have to be either/or

That seems to be a recurring theme with the various quasi-scientific anti environment movements - if one of your more 'educated' members can find two causes for an observation then it immediately calls conventional wisdom into question and all the scientists must be wrong because they obviously didn't know about it....