No Tillegra Dam Group

The Wilderness Society has criticised both Labor and the Coalition for failing to present clear, positive policies to protect our environment.  The Wilderness Society has released its Federal Environment Policy Priorities for 2010  and identifies the massive threats to the Williams River posed by Tillegra Dam, as a matter of national significance. The proposed Tillegra [...]

Community forum on Tillegra Dam at Newcastle City Hall Wednesday July 28th 2010 (details here) Community members from Newcastle, Dungog and throughout the Hunter region will gather at Newcastle City Hall tonight to hear political representatives outline their positions on the controversial Tillegra Dam. The meeting has been called ahead of an expected announcement on [...]

Where: Hunter Room, Newcastle City Hall, 290 King St, Newcastle, 2300 When: 6 – 7:45pm Wednesday 28 July, 2010 Why: The Tillegra dam has drawn fire from renowned water planning experts and ecologists, the fishing industry and numerous community groups. More than 8,000 people have made submissions, written to Jodi McKay and Premier Keneally and [...]

Tillegra Dam – Hunter Watergate Media release: 13 March 2010 Sally Corbett, spokesperson for the No Tillegra Dam Group said: Hunter Water’s feeble offset package for the proposed Tillegra Dam, announced on Saturday 13 March, contains nothing new. The measures announced, such as a possible national park and changed water releases, are simply normal legal [...]

Rare frog found at Tillegra site: confidence in EAR further undermined University experts have confirmed that a tadpole found in the locality of the proposed Tillegra Dam is the rare and endangered Stuttering Barred Frog (Mixophyes balbus). The existence of this species was not confirmed in the Environmental Assessment Report, adding yet further evidence that [...]

No Tillegra Dam Group welcomes the announcement by Mr. Peter Garrett today that the Traveston Crossing Dam should not proceed.

INQUIRY INTO TILLEGRA – A MUST HAVE! An independent review into the need for the proposed Tillegra Dam has confirmed that Hunter Water has failed its customers dismally by attempting to push ahead with an unnecessary white elephant. Amongst its recommendations, The Institute for Sustainable Futures study recommends that the NSW Government direct Hunter Water [...]

Hunter Water Corporation has begun the process of delivering customer newsletters to counter voter backlash over the proposed Tillegra Dam, which ratepayers will be paying off for the next 50 years. The newsletter states that Tillegra will create 1850 jobs. This is incorrect. Information received by the National Party has revealed that the NSW Government [...]

The Department of Planning has sent a clear message to Hunter Water over the Tillegra Dam Environmental Assessment Report, sending them back to the drawing board to do more work. Once again Hunter Water’s incompetence has been called into question with regard to their collection of data. We well remember the data free zone application [...]

Why Tillegra Dam is really Lake Orkopoulos In the light of Mr Milton Orkopoulos, former member for Swansea, seeking an appeal for his prison sentence as a convicted sex felon, it is timely to revisit the announcement of the proposed Tillegra Dam. On October 10, 2005, Ms Gillian Sneddon, Mr Orkopoulos’s electorate officer, took a [...]

Selective Figures Won’t Convince Voters on the Need for the Proposed Tillegra Dam Kevin Young, General Manager of Hunter Water, has continued to treat the ratepayers of the Hunter with contempt with his release (NH, April 3, $1.2 billion to flow in Tillegra booster) of a few projections from a Monash University study into the [...]

Hunter Water is not a Reliable Environmental Manager! Save the Williams River Coalition claims today that Hunter Water Corporation (HWC) cannot be trusted to manage its environmental impacts on the rivers, lakes and estuarine systems in the Lower Hunter region. ‘Recent reports on the pollution of Lake Macquarie from inadequate sewerage operations are just the [...]