Whale Watch

Last season 42 separate whales were sited within 10 kilometres of the desal site (stat decs and photos confirm this). The Government’s EES said there were virtually no whales in the area and it was not significant habitat (the EES said only a couple of whales...

Desalination Forum – 22nd May 2010

It has been about nine months now since the consortium building the desalination plant last met with the community to give any details of what they plan to build. This is a very unsatisfactory situation. The government have set up a community liason committee that...

Wonthaggi’s 100th birthday celebration

Watershed contributed a float for the street parade celebrating Wonthaggi’s 100th birthday. We secured an honourable mention from the judges for our efforts and we think the miners of old would appreciated our efforts to stand up against Government arrogance and...

Monitoring

HELP US  ONGOING ACTIVE MONITORING OF DESAL SITE: As our campaign is strongly motivated by our love for the Bass Coast, we plan to actively pursue compliance with the Environmental Effects Study (EES) as well as acting on the social and traffic impacts of the project...