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HOT PRICE PARSLEY farmer Crow Batterham checks out his crop ahead of next weekend’s Apple and Grape Harvest Festival. This year the event will include a Seasonal Harvest - a celebration of Granite Belt Produce and the people who grow, harvest and make the award winning food and wine. There will be tours and harvest dinners by award winning chefs during the event starting Thursday, 6 March. Full story Page 13
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to support the proposed dam, SDRC then chose to spend $800,000 of ratepayers’ money to fund a Supplementary EIS.” Mr Simcocks said the Unidel Report put the reliability of the proposed water supply at 100 per cent for only six out of every 10 years.
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and councillors voted five to three to reject it. “The former councillors chose to ignore the consultants and all the expert findings in the environmental and economic areas,” Mr Simcocks said. “When the first Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) and the Unidel Report didn’t provide answers
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Fifteen properties surrounding the dam site are threatened by the project and valuable Severn River biodiversity is likely to be destroyed. Mr Simcocks said the $100 million project is projected to double the rates of average householders. He said the original Unidel report said the proposed Emu Swamp dam wasn’t viable on any measure
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EMU Swamp Dam would be a social disaster for Stanthorpe and the Granite Belt, according to a fourth generation resident and affected landowner. Rob Simcocks said Southern Downs Regional Council (SDRC) is seeking to secure an urban/irrigator water supply at Emu Swamp at Fletcher, south of Glen Aplin.
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