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Please help us create\u00c2 <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n Help us explain why the….<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n The official government line is still that the\u00a0\u00a0final contracts with either Veolia\/Connex or Degremont\/Suez<\/strong>, to build the\u00a0proposed <\/strong>desalination plant,\u00a0are not yet signed<\/strong>, and may not be until after August, due to the global financial crisis. The complexity of signing a 30 year contract with a global\u00a0 water baron\u00a0 such as Veolia\/Connex\u00a0 or Degremont\/Suez, could also be contributing to the delay.<\/p>\n Allied politicians and journalists have actually been listening to us, over the past 2 years. We just need them to do more, now, today!<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Cut and paste the proformas provided at <\/span>“letter ideas“<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/strong>,<\/strong><\/span> or below,<\/strong> <\/span>write your own letter, or combine ours with yours\u00a6..you don’t need to understand all the issues, just express your outrage!<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n For up-to-date contact details for State and Federal politicians, go to<\/span><\/strong><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n http:\/\/www.parliament.vic.gov.au\/mlas.html<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n http:\/\/www.aph.gov.au\/house\/members\/memlist.pdf<\/strong><\/span><\/a>\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2 <\/strong><\/p>\n For added inspiration, take another stroll\u00c2\u00a0along Williamsons Beach \u00e2\u20ac\u201c you may see a seal riding the waves with the surfers, a whale swimming by, a stunning sunset, or all three!<\/strong>\u00c2 <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u00c2 Letters! Letters! Letters! Please help us create\u00c2 a flood of letters! a deluge of letters! Help us explain why the…. Desalination Contracts Must Not Be Signed! The official government line is still that the\u00a0\u00a0final contracts with either Veolia\/Connex or Degremont\/Suez, to build the\u00a0proposed desalination plant,\u00a0are not yet signed, and may not be until after […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9,186],"tags":[176,187],"class_list":["post-2597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-features","category-letterwriting","tag-add-new-tag","tag-letter-letters-write-writing-have-your-say"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.watershedvictoria.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.watershedvictoria.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.watershedvictoria.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.watershedvictoria.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.watershedvictoria.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2597"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.watershedvictoria.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2599,"href":"https:\/\/www.watershedvictoria.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2597\/revisions\/2599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.watershedvictoria.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.watershedvictoria.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.watershedvictoria.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}} <\/span><\/strong>a flood of letters<\/span>! <\/span><\/strong>a deluge of letters!<\/span><\/strong><\/strong><\/h2>\n
Desalination Contracts Must Not Be Signed!<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n
But then again,\u00a0 \u00a0contracts could be signed any day now…..<\/span><\/h3>\n
So,<\/strong><\/span>\u00c2\u00a0we need everyone to take a deep breath, and\u00c2\u00a0write <\/span>letters, letters,<\/span> letters<\/span><\/span>, <\/span> preferably\u00a0 email, <\/span>followed by hard copy (incl.fax),<\/span> to flood our politicians desks.<\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n
All too hard? Then an easy way to start might be to go direct to the ‘Ask the Premier a question’ webpage, where you can put your details and a quick question to the man himself, just click the link below <\/span>http:\/\/www.premier.vic.gov.au\/component\/option,com_forme\/Itemid,61\/fid,2\/<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n
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