Today I want to share some important information that I received a few weeks ago.
I attended a meeting in Perth and chairing that meeting was a fully qualified and certified Marine Biologist who had worked on installing and fitting up desalination plants in The United Arab Emirates.
He told the meeting that a party of divers, including him, were asked to dive on some plants that had been previously installed. In wetsuits they entered the water; surface temperature being 30 degrees. On arrival at the bottom, the water temperature had risen to 60 degrees. All of the divers were sweating profusely and surfaced immediately.
They then carried out another test, obtaining some marine grade 316 stainless steel ships shackles, the shackles and pins were one inch in thickness. These were lowered to the bottom. After one week they pulled up the shackles and found that they had all been completely eaten out by the acid released from the waste mounds of the desalination plants. Only a thin skin was left holding the shackle together. Not a single living organism was to be found in the vicinity.
With massive damage done to our economy and thousands of people out of work, there’s no better time for the pipeline to proceed south.
Does anybody in WA have any scientific data on the damage that these desalination plants can create? The water that is returned to the ocean from the plant is 66% higher in salt than the ocean itself. I wouldn’t call that good for the ocean or the future of organisms and fish life. The ocean is our food bowl from which many people draw their food.
There is absolutely no better time than right now to bring this pipeline down. Australia has been decimated by bush fires, and now the COVID 19 virus. Massive damage has been done to our economy, and with thousands of people out of work, there is no better time for the pipeline to proceed south. It would provide employment, supply towns and farming areas with vital water allowing people to grow produce, and sustain stock.
Support me in this fight to bring the water down from Lake Argyle and say NO to desalination plants.
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