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Wonthaggi desalination plant costs soar by $106 million

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 00:00:00

A major building union has warned Leighton Holdings investors to expect more heavy losses on the Wonthaggi desalination plant after a company writedown of $106 million yesterday. The added projected cost, which the building giant partly puts down to lost…

Faulty valves in new desalination delay

Wed, 01 Feb 2012 00:00:00

The troubled desalination plant at Wonthaggi has hit a roadblock as thousands of valves designed to control water flow have failed. Builders are desperately trying to meet a June 30 deadline before $1.8 million a day in penalty payments begin,…

Wonthaggi desalination plant faces four-month delay

Fri, 28 Oct 2011 00:00:00

The builders of Victoria’s troubled desalination plant say "cyclonic" weather and union go-slows will delay its completion by up to four months. But Water Minister Peter Walsh vowed to hold project manager AquaSure to penalties of $1.6 million per day…

Victorian Government to pay failed desalination bidder $10 million

Fri, 31 Jul 2009 00:00:00

Water Minister Tim Holding confirmed that the Bass Water consortium would be compensated after it lost the tender to build Australia’s largest desalination plant. AquaSure, led by French water company Degremont, was awarded the contract to build the $3.5 billion…

Melbourne water bills to soar

Sat, 08 Nov 2008 00:00:00

This means residents with the average annual water bill of about $580 will be paying $1000 a year for water by 2012. Price rises up to 97 per cent are contained in plans submitted to the Essential Services Commission by…

Great water divide grows

Tue, 09 Sep 2008 00:00:00

Large schemes such as the desalination plant could have Melbourne on stage 1 restrictions within 10 years, a state government department told a parliamentary inquiry yesterday. But Environment Victoria said the Government’s water plans were outdated and risky. Its chief,…

Protestors give water minister Tim Holding silent treatment

Fri, 05 Sep 2008 00:00:00

Desalination protesters turned out in force near Wonthaggi yesterday but Water Minister Tim Holding escaped any abuse. Mr. Holding was hit with eggs and Nazi insults during a recent tour of water projects, but this time he faced 200 protesters…

The world wants to work on Melbourne's big projects

Mon, 11 Aug 2008 00:00:00

Up to three foreign companies will fight a multi-million-dollar battle for the lucrative Brumby government contract to build the desalination plant. And the Government has cut the list of contenders to run Melbourne’s tram network to just two. The Herald…

Tasmanian water to the rescue

Sat, 19 Jul 2008 00:00:00

The plan is to send the water through an undersea pipeline across Bass Strait at a cost of up to $12 billion. The proposal has been put to the Tasmanian and Victorian governments, and deserves to be looked at. The…

Green power call for desal plant

Mon, 16 Jun 2008 00:00:00

In a discussion paper released today, Environment Victoria says the best way for the plant to be carbon-neutral is if the Government buys renewable energy through the GreenPower scheme. Campaigns director Mark Wakeham said this would ensure the Government didn’t…

People power takes to streets

Fri, 23 May 2008 00:00:00

And it’s community groups, rather than radicals, who are trying to get messages heard. Yesterday Stonnington traders protested about extended clearway times, the second in a series of planned stoppages along inner-city shopping strips. It comes after Melbourne has had…

Juggling politics and costs over water

Sat, 22 Mar 2008 00:00:00

One of its findings was that, per kilolitre of water, the cost from the proposed Wonthaggi desalination plant would be six times the costs from a new dam in Gippsland. The Government’s Wonthaggi plan seeks to avoid green activists’ opposition…

Desalination plant opposed by shire

Thu, 20 Mar 2008 00:00:00

In an official submission to the environmental effects study process, the council asks why no alternatives have been canvassed. "The environmental effects study must investigate siting alternatives within established settlements, or at least sites near to established settlements that are…

Desalination plant not needed, group says

Thu, 13 Mar 2008 00:00:00

And the city’s water storages would be overflowing by 2014 if the desalination plant, north-south pipeline and Eastern Treatment Plant upgrade all came online, according to anti-desalination group Your Water Your Say. An increase in rainwater tanks, the upgrade and…

Water, water everywhere

Fri, 07 Mar 2008 00:00:00

The Brumby Government has a long-held policy to retain water in public hands, and we were the first government to enshrine public ownership of water in the Victorian Constitution. In September last year we announced that the desalination plant would…