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      <title>Nancy Roussy [Signature #879]</title>
      <link>https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/12903535?utm_medium=rss</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Nancy Roussy, Ste-Florence, Quebec, Canada]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2012 10:48:20 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>matthew johnston [Signature #878]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[matthew johnston, rockhampton, qld, Australia]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 27 Mar 2010 11:14:12 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Mr Chris Baker [Signature #877]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mr Chris Baker, Hervey Bay, 4655, Australia<p>Send a pipeline down from the fitzroy</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 05:15:01 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>mr rod cheyne [Signature #876]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[mr rod cheyne, bundaberg, qld, Australia<p>Good luck with this,,<br />
I have heard that the dam water is needed for the coal industry , is that right and if is all the more reason to stop it.</p>

<p>Regards Rod</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 1 Nov 2009 06:27:10 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Ms Robyn Davey [Signature #875]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Ms Robyn Davey, Qld, Australia]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 7 Oct 2009 07:50:58 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Mrs Wendy Roberts [Signature #874]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mrs Wendy Roberts, Queensland, Australia]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 04:49:09 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Mr Greg Roberts [Signature #873]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mr Greg Roberts, Queensland, Australia]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 04:45:32 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Mrs Anonymous [Signature #872]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Anonymous, Queensland, Australia]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2009 06:54:23 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Ms Angela Cleary [Signature #871]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Ms Angela Cleary, QLD, Australia]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2009 07:26:33 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Mr Bradley Cooper [Signature #870]</title>
      <link>https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/6007967?utm_medium=rss</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Mr Bradley Cooper, Bundaberg, Queensland, Australia]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 6 Aug 2009 05:45:47 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Mrs Anne Whalley [Signature #869]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mrs Anne Whalley, Qld, Australia<p>We don&#039;t need another disastrous non-functional fish ladder as we have at Paradise Dam and Ben Anderson Barrage.</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2009 06:24:05 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Mr Robert Wilson [Signature #868]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mr Robert Wilson, Maryborough, Queensland, Australia]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 6 May 2009 01:11:18 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>miss Laura Meadows [Signature #867]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[miss Laura Meadows, sunshine coast, qld, Australia]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 7 Apr 2009 08:01:18 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Ms Anonymous [Signature #866]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Anonymous, Hervey Bay, Queensland, Australia]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 14 Mar 2009 08:50:06 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Mr Siegfried Schlosser [Signature #865]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mr Siegfried Schlosser, Hervey Bay, Queensland, Australia]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 14 Mar 2009 08:48:54 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Mrs Dolores Schlosser [Signature #864]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mrs Dolores Schlosser, Hervey Bay, Queensland, Australia]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 14 Mar 2009 08:46:47 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Carole Gillies [Signature #863]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Carole Gillies, Queensland, Australia<p>The Great Sandy Strait is an international treasure which must be saved in its natural state.</p>

<p>This area has high quality habitat for many threatened species of both fauna and flora.  It is critical that the balance in the ecosystem is maintained in its entirety.</p>

<p>A seemingly minor impact can have major consequences all the way through to some of our most popular mega fauna such as the dugong and dolphins in the region.</p>

<p>It is within our power to make a difference.</p>]]></description>
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      <title>mrs samantha syrmis [Signature #862]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[mrs samantha syrmis, QLD, Australia]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 1 Feb 2009 08:00:23 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Mr Gary Westaway [Signature #861]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mr Gary Westaway, Peregian West, QLD, Australia<p>Will we never learn?</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 23 Jan 2009 06:12:26 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Mr Mark Schonefeld [Signature #860]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mr Mark Schonefeld, Strathpine, Queensland, Australia]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 9 Jan 2009 10:35:36 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Mr Jamie Smith [Signature #859]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mr Jamie Smith, Queensland, Australia]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 27 Dec 2008 06:14:01 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Jo Shea [Signature #858]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Jo Shea, Mapleton, Australia<p>The dam will compromise the essential marine habitats that have evolved over thousands of years in the sandy straights, including those of the already endangered dugong, all for a dam which is an unsuitable option for Brisbane&#039;s water supply anyway.  Bring back the rain water tanks and bring in water recycling.</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 15 Nov 2008 12:08:58 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Mr Jared Gilbey [Signature #857]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mr Jared Gilbey, Wadebridge, Cornwall, United Kingdom<p>I have recently returned to England after living for two years in Gympie. I would like to do my bit to help the plight of The Mary River and The Great Sandy Strait.</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 9 Nov 2008 08:56:36 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Vicki Sparkes [Signature #856]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Vicki Sparkes, Queensland, Australia]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 5 Nov 2008 07:53:12 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Kaye Preston [Signature #855]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Kaye Preston, Texas, United States of America<p>Having spent part of my youth on Fraser Island (my Dad was the lighthouse keeper) I have a personal interest in preserving the natural elements of the area</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 31 Oct 2008 07:21:06 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Ms Jennifer Parry [Signature #854]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Ms Jennifer Parry, Pine Creek, Qld, Australia]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 22 Oct 2008 08:22:45 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Ms Louisa McGarry-Heaton [Signature #853]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Ms Louisa McGarry-Heaton, Craignish, Qld, Australia]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 20 Oct 2008 11:40:16 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Mr Graham Stockfeld [Signature #852]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mr Graham Stockfeld, Victoria, Australia]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 17 Oct 2008 08:38:21 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Mr Anonymous [Signature #851]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Anonymous, Queensland, Australia<p>The traveston dam is a travesty. It will cause huge enviromental damage and provide little benefit. There are better options!.</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 16 Oct 2008 09:06:17 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Mr Mark Rhodes [Signature #850]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mr Mark Rhodes, Brisbane, QLD, Australia]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 12 Oct 2008 07:09:50 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Ms Sharene Voss [Signature #849]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Ms Sharene Voss, Happy Valley, South Australia, Australia<p>As a former resident of Mapleton in the Sunshine Coast hinterland I, like many others who actually LIVE in the area, fail to see the rationale behind an unwanted dam which will destroy a healthy thriving ecosystem, when the storage of water could, and should, be done at the home, and be the responsibilty of the user... the old ways of taking FROM the Earth have to end....any thinking person knows this.  Run off is, and SHOULD be available for those canny enough to trap it.  In their own homes.</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 5 Oct 2008 02:34:41 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Ms Janet Fitzgibbons [Signature #848]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Ms Janet Fitzgibbons, Brisbane, Qld, Australia<p>I cannot see why anyone would want to further endanger species that have been displayed in the Qld museum threatened species section long before this Dam was proposed.</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 1 Oct 2008 08:50:17 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Miss Georgina Perkins [Signature #847]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Miss Georgina Perkins, Gold Coast, QLD, Australia]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 30 Sep 2008 11:50:13 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Carole Bristow [Signature #846]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Carole Bristow, Queensland, Australia<p>I oppose flooding so much valuable agricultural land close to Brisbane.  I object to any threat to the habitat of the Lung Fish, the oldest living fossil on the planet, of international significance.  Let us find solutions other than damming the Mary River.</p>]]></description>
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      <title>Mr Hans Oppermann [Signature #845]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mr Hans Oppermann, Maryborough, QLD, Australia]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 27 Sep 2008 07:11:21 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Mr Glen Daly [Signature #844]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mr Glen Daly, Coominya, QLD, Australia<p>The Traveston Dam should be renamed the Travesty Dam as it is the exact opposite of good environmental policy.<br />
It just another manifestation of a corrupt and incompetent government.</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 25 Sep 2008 01:35:07 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Mr Andrew Vinnicombe [Signature #843]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mr Andrew Vinnicombe, Torquay, Qld, Australia<p>Please listen to the voice of the local people who do not wish to see this beautiful river die, with the subsequent destruction of the Great Sandy Straites. Damming the Mary will not solve the water problems of Brisbane and the S.E. Corner of Queensland, but will remove one of our best agricultural areas, which has to adversely effect the residents of that area regarding food prices.</p>]]></description>
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      <title>Miss Katie Doyle [Signature #842]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Miss Katie Doyle, NSW, Australia]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 24 Aug 2008 10:30:58 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Ms Margaret Higgs [Signature #841]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Ms Margaret Higgs, Belli Park, QLD, Australia]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 16 Aug 2008 08:50:51 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Ms Melanie Higgs [Signature #840]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Ms Melanie Higgs, QLD, Australia<p>Please don&#039;t dam the Mary. There are better alternatives. This will be an environmental disaster and one if it goes ahead that we will have commited with the knowledge of the terrible impact it will have. We have the science and bitter experience from the Murray mistake to learn dams aren&#039;t a good answer. How will we explain  to our children we damed the habitat of the lung fish, MR Turtle and Mary River Cod, risking the sandy straight, distroying aboriginal significant and furtile farm land?</p>]]></description>
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      <title>miss simone elizabeth voll [Signature #839]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[miss simone elizabeth voll, Hervey bay, Qld, Australia]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 13 Aug 2008 12:22:51 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Mr Anthony Keim [Signature #838]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mr Anthony Keim, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia<p>The Traveston Crossing Dam should not be built. The agriculturally rich land (rich in manure, rich soils, and exposed to pesticides), will leach into the water (at a fast rate being a shallow dam), where nutrient will cause huge algae blooms in the dam and below. The nutrient rich water will flow into the Great Sandy Straights &amp; Harvey Bay, which may cause algae to smother sea grass&#039;s displacing Dugongs, juvenile fish. Whale&#039;s may stop entering these waters as water turbidity &amp; chemistry change.</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 12 Aug 2008 10:20:14 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Hailey Lewis [Signature #837]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Hailey Lewis, Maryborough, Queensland, Australia]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 9 Aug 2008 06:40:14 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Ms Laura Morcom [Signature #836]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Ms Laura Morcom, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia<p>I believe that the Traverston Mega Dam should be withheld to ensure the future protection of residents, agriculture, culture, religious practice, the Great Sandy Strait ecosystems, the Mary River catchment, the organisms -particularily the endangered - and their habitat, the tourism and seafood industries. I also believe that the proposal is unethical and goes against government legislation.</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 17 Jul 2008 04:55:08 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Ms Estelle Bain [Signature #835]</title>
      <link>https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/3825713?utm_medium=rss</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Ms Estelle Bain, Townsville, Queensland, Australia<p>It is disappointing that our government is not considering more innovative, far-sighted solutions to this challenging issue.</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 2 Jul 2008 06:48:20 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>chloe neuman [Signature #834]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[chloe neuman, NSW, Australia]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 1 Jul 2008 07:12:57 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>sharon mackay [Signature #833]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[sharon mackay, hervey bay, qld, Australia<p>Dont do what you did to the Murray,<br />
build a pipeline from Tully!<br />
Haven&#039;t the government learnt their lesson yet from the degredation of the Murray Darling.</p>]]></description>
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      <title>Mr Rob Farnham [Signature #832]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mr Rob Farnham, Carters Ridge, Qld, Australia<p>Nearly 500 million dollars has been spent destroying the families and communities of the Mary Valley for the sake of a flawed project which has still not been approved and MUST not be approved under state or federal law.</p>

<p>A desalination plant could have been built for less!</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 29 Jun 2008 06:45:59 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>jan mahon [Signature #831]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[jan mahon, Holland Park, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia<p>Eco systems should be high priority in the world today, and this dam should not even be considered in this precious area of the Mary River. There is absolutely no guarantee anyway the rain will choose to fall over the dam catchment, as changing world weather is another unknown factor.</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 28 Jun 2008 05:32:12 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Ross Smith [Signature #830]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Ross Smith, Tiaro, Queensland, Australia<p>Too shallow - won&#039;t work<br />
Desalination better option</p>

<p>Will cause big effects down stream - Hervey Bay and Great Sandy Strait<br />
Lower flows in lower Mary - affecting fish and prawns<br />
Cane production will be lowered by less water - could cause cane industry (mill) to become unviable and owners will take their investment elsewhere</p>]]></description>
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      <title>Mr Brian Etherington [Signature #829]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mr Brian Etherington, Torquay, Qld., Australia]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 24 Jun 2008 04:19:46 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Mrs Janelle Duffell [Signature #828]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mrs Janelle Duffell, Crystal Creek, NSW, Australia]]></description>
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      <title>Mrs Anita Webster [Signature #827]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mrs Anita Webster, Queensland, Australia]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 20 Jun 2008 09:21:16 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Mrs Danielle Bain [Signature #826]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mrs Danielle Bain, CORNUBIA, QLD, Australia<p>We need to act now to prevent environmental degradation of rivers and coastal areas; witness the current state of the rivers in SE Queensland and the Murray Darling System.</p>]]></description>
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      <title>miss Sari Larikka [Signature #825]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[miss Sari Larikka, Seaford, Vic, Australia<p>Damming the mary river is one of the biggest ecological mistakes that could be made</p>]]></description>
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      <title>Miss Krysta Larikka [Signature #824]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Miss Lesa Bell, Imbil, Q, Australia<p>I simply cannot understand this decision. The facts are all there. The truth must be more important than political gain. How naive I can be. I have never believed this dam will go ahead, It cannot go ahead</p>]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mr Peter Friis, Buderim, Queensland, Australia<p>It is so disappointing, when the argument from the Governments side holds so little water.<br />
I have been involved in the environmental movement for the last 42 years and it seems hopeless that we can ever hope for constructive for governments to listen to the peoples and the environments needs, as they are supposed to.<br />
I have read several hundreds of pages of government information an find their determination lacking in reason</p>]]></description>
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      <title>andrea guerrini [Signature #821]</title>
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      <title>Claire Moore [Signature #820]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Claire Moore, Glenvale, Queensland, Australia<p>Damming the Mary will cause significant, irreparable impact on the environment and people in the Mary Valley, Great Sandy Strait and associated areas.  For what benefit?  The Mary Valley is an important food producing area.  The Sandy Strait is a critical marine habitat.  We need these.  We don&#039;t need a shallow dam which has many other shortcomings as well.</p>]]></description>
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      <title>Mr Steve Posselt [Signature #818]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mr Steve Posselt, Karalee, Qld, Australia<p>This dam is not essential infrastructure as claimed. There are many better alternatives which are not as destructive to the environment and will provide more reliable water</p>]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Cr Sue Brooks, Dundowran Beach, Qld, Australia<p>Our environment cannot be continually altered to suit our needs or it will collapse. It is that simple.</p>]]></description>
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      <title>Ms Melissa Creed [Signature #813]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Ms Melissa Creed, Highgate Hill, Queensland, Australia<p>Dear Peter Garret, Please consider the international importance of the Queensland Lungfish to both science and it&#039;s cultural significance to the Kabbi Kabbi people. The Mary river is the last sucessfull breeding habitat for this species in the world and it will not survive a mega dam. Please become informed on the matter and act accordingly. Use the power you now hold to expand apon and directly exercise the intelligent cultural and environmental beliefs that you wrote about twenty years ago!</p>]]></description>
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      <title>Anonymous [Signature #803]</title>
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      <title>Mr Steve Davies [Signature #802]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mr Steve Davies, Littleport, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom<p>Any damming of river is a change in the way nature works. Evolution has taken many centurys to evolve specialist forms. Damming takes only a decade, but destroys natures centurys.</p>]]></description>
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      <title>Mr Steve Baker [Signature #801]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mr Steve Baker, Bedfordshire, United Kingdom]]></description>
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      <title>Miss Charlotte Gardner [Signature #800]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Miss Charlotte Gardner, Lancashire, United Kingdom]]></description>
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      <title>Mr John Vardy [Signature #799]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mr John Vardy, Sandstone Point, QLD, Australia]]></description>
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      <title>Mr william Biddulph [Signature #798]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mr william Biddulph, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, United Kingdom<p>The wildlife that we have today is not ours to dispose of as we please, but to protect and proserve for those that are to come.</p>]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Anonymous, Worcestershire, United Kingdom]]></description>
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      <title>Captain Edward Bassett [Signature #796]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Captain Edward Bassett, Maidstone, Kent, United Kingdom]]></description>
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      <title>Mr Jim Potter [Signature #795]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mr Jim Potter, Shropshire, United Kingdom<p>Leave it as nature intended.  What is the point of building a dam that will silt up in a hundred years anyway?</p>]]></description>
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      <title>Mr Chris Welsh [Signature #794]</title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 30 Apr 2008 01:17:40 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Richard Hutchinson [Signature #793]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Richard Hutchinson, Hurricane Mills, Tn, United States of America<p>Please don&#039;t follow the United Sates mistakes. There are to few wild rivers left world wide for our grandchildren.</p>]]></description>
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      <title>L Spaeth [Signature #792]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[L Spaeth, New York, United States of America<p>Dam the Mary...You&#039;re kidding, right?  Everywhere that dams have been put in the US, they&#039;ve messed everything up, and one by one, we&#039;re taking them down.   Y&#039;all don&#039;t have to learn the hard way...we did that for you.  Leave the river alone.</p>]]></description>
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      <title>Bob Williams [Signature #791]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Bob Williams, Texas, United States of America<p>A few places such as the Great Sandy Straight and the Mary River should be left in its natural state as God created it for our children to see.</p>]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mr. Richard Maxwell, Shreveport, La., United States of America<p>The daming of rivers,when there are viable alternatives, should never be allowed. The attendant loss of habitat for many species and the inevatable reduction in numbers of those species cannot be allowed to occur.</p>

<p>It matters not where the daming of rivers and the loss of habitat occurs. It must be opposed by all who care about the environment.</p>]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[bearridge n/a, Mississippi, United States of America<p>Please don&#039;t dam that beautiful river and destroy your downstream jewels.  You owe it to the grandchildren to preserve them.</p>]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mr Mick Webb, Torbanlea, Queensland, Australia<p>Sir,<br />
The very thought of damming this magnificent river is an outrage.  I would very respectfully urge you to come up here, take the time to see for yourself.</p>]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mr Don Ballment, Toowoomba, Qld, Australia<p>As a recent visitor to the Mary Valley, I have become aware of the extent of destruction to property, the environment and to endangered species should this dam be allowed to proceed.  It is not cost effective and will not solve the SEQ water problems.  There has to be a better solution. The Federal government needs to step in and stop the Qld government from &quot;Damming the Mary&quot;</p>]]></description>
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