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    Garrett rejects Traveston Dam

    Sure we could. But what levels of wealth are you talking? We could support 400 million if everyone lived like an Ethiopian. We could support 150 million if everyone lived like an Indonesian. If big is great, why do we have a higher standard of living than China, 1.3 billion, India, 1...
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    Garrett rejects Traveston Dam

    Thanks. Cheers. What are you sorry about? It is completely on topic. It is all interrelated. See ya's.
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    Garrett rejects Traveston Dam

    NIMBY's are against wind farms now. They are against new high voltage power lines. NIMBY's and greenies are against new dams. Can you just imagine the public protests over the announcement of nuclear power plants and the resultant waste dump in the middle of the continent? It might get easier...
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    Garrett rejects Traveston Dam

    The Queensland government has bought 14,000 hectares for half a billion dollars, that was either going to be flooded, or would have been water catchment area. What happens to this land now? Do the previous owners/sellers get to buy it back? Was it bought above market prices? Will prices...
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    Garrett rejects Traveston Dam

    Everyone is a NIMBY. Even myself, as I don't want my area dug up for coal. But I'd happily have a nuclear power station next door if it ment no coal mining of Australia's best broadacre farm land. But most of the country doesn't want nuclear power even if it's a thousand k's from them, and...
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