❓ Question about the new Perth desalination plant in Kwinana, answered by the Minister for Water Resources, highlighting its significance and renewable energy source, sparking debate and interjections from the opposition.
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DESALINATION PLANT - KWINANA
Can the minister inform the house about the new Perth desalination plant that has just been opened in Kwinana? Mr J.C. KOBELKE
Can the minister inform the house about the new Perth desalination plant that has just been opened in Kwinana? Mr J.C. KOBELKE
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I thank the member for her question. Sunday was a historic day for our state and our nation when the Premier opened Australia’s first large-scale seawater desalination plant at Kwinana. Western Australia became the first state in the commonwealth to use rainfall-independent desalination as a major public water source. Pure drinking water filtered from Indian Ocean sea water is now circulating in Perth’s water supply network and is blending with our traditional ground water and surface water sources. This is the largest desalination plant in the world powered by renewable energy. The plant’s energy source is the new Emu Downs Wind Farm, which is some 200 kilometres - Mr C.J. Barnett interjected. Withdrawal of Remark Mr A.J. CARPENTER : The member for Cottesloe accused the Minister for Water Resources of telling a lie to Parliament. The SPEAKER : I did not hear him say that. If the member for Cottesloe uttered those words, he knows that they are unparliamentary and that they should be withdrawn. Mr C.J. BARNETT : I said that it is a lie to say that the plant is powered by renewable energy. If that is offensive to Parliament, I withdraw. Questions without Notice Resumed Mr J.C. KOBELKE : I repeat: the desalination plant’s energy source is the new Emu Downs Wind Farm. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! I call the member for Darling Range to order for the second time. Mr J.C. KOBELKE : The desalination plant is powered by energy from the Emu Downs Wind Farm. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! I call the member for Cottesloe to order for the first time. Mr J.C. KOBELKE : The ridiculous statements coming from the opposition are in line with its view - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! I call the members for Nedlands and Greenough to order. Mr J.C. KOBELKE : The opposition’s comments are keeping with the view that it took to the last election that, because when one holds a map, Kununurra is north of Perth, water could run down a pipeline to Perth. They did not think to turn the map the other way and acknowledge that the pipeline could run back the other way. They have no idea that more power would be needed to bring water from the Kimberley by pipeline than will be required to run the desalination plant in Kwinana. That is how out of touch members opposite are with the reality of producing water. Mr T. Buswell interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, member for Vasse! Mr J.C. KOBELKE : One can understand why members opposite take issue with the fact that the plant is being driven by wind power. Clearly, they have no idea how water can be provided to the people of Western Australia; nor do they have any idea how to do so in an environmentally acceptable way. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the members for Cottesloe and Darling Range to order. Mr J.C. KOBELKE : The Kwinana desalination plant on the shore of Cockburn Sound is the third largest operating plant of its kind in the world. When it becomes fully operational in about two months, it will produce an average of 130 million litres of drinking water a day. Further, it will supply 17 per cent of Perth’s current water supply needs. The plant, and its associated infrastructure, is a marvellous engineering achievement. The hundreds of people involved in the project worked under severe time constraints to produce a world-class facility in just under two years. The project has been delivered on time and on budget. This is a remarkable achievement given the current competition for skilled resources in WA’s buoyant economy. I congratulate Dr Jim Gill and his Water Corporation project team, and the Multiplex Degremont Joint Venture, which worked with the corporation to build this innovative plant. The desalination plant has been the subject of the most rigorous environmental approval procedure ever imposed on a Water Corporation project. The strict monitoring criteria that have been set include the measurement of the concentration of discharge into Cockburn Sound to ensure that the plant does not have a detrimental effect. In turn, the Water Corporation has responded to the approval conditions by establishing the most intensive ocean monitoring program of any desalination plant in the world to gauge the impact on marine life and water quality in the sound. A desalination plant alone is not sufficient to secure our water supplies. We are continuing with the security through diversity program. This is a fantastic additional source of water for the people of Western Australia. It is incredible that although the rest of Australia acknowledges that Western Australia is a leader in this field, the Western Australian opposition continues to bag WA. The mob opposite can never represent the interests of Western Australia. People right across Australia - from the Parliamentary Secretary to the Prime Minister down - are looking to WA’s lead and saying what a good job we have done. However, those opposite continue to bag Western Australia because they do not represent the people of Western Australia. Indeed, they have no understanding of how to do so.
Mr J.C. KOBELKE replied: I thank the member for her question. Sunday was a historic day for our state and our nation when the Premier opened Australia’s first large-scale seawater desalination plant at Kwinana. Western Australia became the first state in the commonwealth to use rainfall-independent desalination as a major public water source. Pure drinking water filtered from Indian Ocean sea water is now circulating in Perth’s water supply network and is blending with our traditional ground water and surface water sources. This is the largest desalination plant in the world powered by renewable energy. The plant’s energy source is the new Emu Downs Wind Farm, which is some 200 kilometres - Mr C.J. Barnett interjected. Withdrawal of Remark Mr A.J. CARPENTER : The member for Cottesloe accused the Minister for Water Resources of telling a lie to Parliament. The SPEAKER : I did not hear him say that. If the member for Cottesloe uttered those words, he knows that they are unparliamentary and that they should be withdrawn. Mr C.J. BARNETT : I said that it is a lie to say that the plant is powered by renewable energy. If that is offensive to Parliament, I withdraw. Questions without Notice Resumed Mr J.C. KOBELKE : I repeat: the desalination plant’s energy source is the new Emu Downs Wind Farm. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! I call the member for Darling Range to order for the second time. Mr J.C. KOBELKE : The desalination plant is powered by energy from the Emu Downs Wind Farm. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! I call the member for Cottesloe to order for the first time. Mr J.C. KOBELKE : The ridiculous statements coming from the opposition are in line with its view - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! I call the members for Nedlands and Greenough to order. Mr J.C. KOBELKE : The opposition’s comments are keeping with the view that it took to the last election that, because when one holds a map, Kununurra is north of Perth, water could run down a pipeline to Perth. They did not think to turn the map the other way and acknowledge that the pipeline could run back the other way. They have no idea that more power would be needed to bring water from the Kimberley by pipeline than will be required to run the desalination plant in Kwinana. That is how out of touch members opposite are with the reality of producing water. Mr T. Buswell interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, member for Vasse! Mr J.C. KOBELKE : One can understand why members opposite take issue with the fact that the plant is being driven by wind power. Clearly, they have no idea how water can be provided to the people of Western Australia; nor do they have any idea how to do so in an environmentally acceptable way. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the members for Cottesloe and Darling Range to order. Mr J.C. KOBELKE : The Kwinana desalination plant on the shore of Cockburn Sound is the third largest operating plant of its kind in the world. When it becomes fully operational in about two months, it will produce an average of 130 million litres of drinking water a day. Further, it will supply 17 per cent of Perth’s current water supply needs. The plant, and its associated infrastructure, is a marvellous engineering achievement. The hundreds of people involved in the project worked under severe time constraints to produce a world-class facility in just under two years. The project has been delivered on time and on budget. This is a remarkable achievement given the current competition for skilled resources in WA’s buoyant economy. I congratulate Dr Jim Gill and his Water Corporation project team, and the Multiplex Degremont Joint Venture, which worked with the corporation to build this innovative plant. The desalination plant has been the subject of the most rigorous environmental approval procedure ever imposed on a Water Corporation project. The strict monitoring criteria that have been set include the measurement of the concentration of discharge into Cockburn Sound to ensure that the plant does not have a detrimental effect. In turn, the Water Corporation has responded to the approval conditions by establishing the most intensive ocean monitoring program of any desalination plant in the world to gauge the impact on marine life and water quality in the sound. A desalination plant alone is not sufficient to secure our water supplies. We are continuing with the security through diversity program. This is a fantastic additional source of water for the people of Western Australia. It is incredible that although the rest of Australia acknowledges that Western Australia is a leader in this field, the Western Australian opposition continues to bag WA. The mob opposite can never represent the interests of Western Australia. People right across Australia - from the Parliamentary Secretary to the Prime Minister down - are looking to WA’s lead and saying what a good job we have done. However, those opposite continue to bag Western Australia because they do not represent the people of Western Australia. Indeed, they have no understanding of how to do so.
I thank the member for her question. Sunday was a historic day for our state and our nation when the Premier opened Australia’s first large-scale seawater desalination plant at Kwinana. Western Australia became the first state in the commonwealth to use rainfall-independent desalination as a major public water source. Pure drinking water filtered from Indian Ocean sea water is now circulating in Perth’s water supply network and is blending with our traditional ground water and surface water sources. This is the largest desalination plant in the world powered by renewable energy. The plant’s energy source is the new Emu Downs Wind Farm, which is some 200 kilometres - Mr C.J. Barnett interjected. Withdrawal of Remark Mr A.J. CARPENTER : The member for Cottesloe accused the Minister for Water Resources of telling a lie to Parliament. The SPEAKER : I did not hear him say that. If the member for Cottesloe uttered those words, he knows that they are unparliamentary and that they should be withdrawn. Mr C.J. BARNETT : I said that it is a lie to say that the plant is powered by renewable energy. If that is offensive to Parliament, I withdraw. Questions without Notice Resumed Mr J.C. KOBELKE : I repeat: the desalination plant’s energy source is the new Emu Downs Wind Farm. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! I call the member for Darling Range to order for the second time. Mr J.C. KOBELKE : The desalination plant is powered by energy from the Emu Downs Wind Farm. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! I call the member for Cottesloe to order for the first time. Mr J.C. KOBELKE : The ridiculous statements coming from the opposition are in line with its view - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! I call the members for Nedlands and Greenough to order. Mr J.C. KOBELKE : The opposition’s comments are keeping with the view that it took to the last election that, because when one holds a map, Kununurra is north of Perth, water could run down a pipeline to Perth. They did not think to turn the map the other way and acknowledge that the pipeline could run back the other way. They have no idea that more power would be needed to bring water from the Kimberley by pipeline than will be required to run the desalination plant in Kwinana. That is how out of touch members opposite are with the reality of producing water. Mr T. Buswell interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, member for Vasse! Mr J.C. KOBELKE : One can understand why members opposite take issue with the fact that the plant is being driven by wind power. Clearly, they have no idea how water can be provided to the people of Western Australia; nor do they have any idea how to do so in an environmentally acceptable way. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the members for Cottesloe and Darling Range to order. Mr J.C. KOBELKE : The Kwinana desalination plant on the shore of Cockburn Sound is the third largest operating plant of its kind in the world. When it becomes fully operational in about two months, it will produce an average of 130 million litres of drinking water a day. Further, it will supply 17 per cent of Perth’s current water supply needs. The plant, and its associated infrastructure, is a marvellous engineering achievement. The hundreds of people involved in the project worked under severe time constraints to produce a world-class facility in just under two years. The project has been delivered on time and on budget. This is a remarkable achievement given the current competition for skilled resources in WA’s buoyant economy. I congratulate Dr Jim Gill and his Water Corporation project team, and the Multiplex Degremont Joint Venture, which worked with the corporation to build this innovative plant. The desalination plant has been the subject of the most rigorous environmental approval procedure ever imposed on a Water Corporation project. The strict monitoring criteria that have been set include the measurement of the concentration of discharge into Cockburn Sound to ensure that the plant does not have a detrimental effect. In turn, the Water Corporation has responded to the approval conditions by establishing the most intensive ocean monitoring program of any desalination plant in the world to gauge the impact on marine life and water quality in the sound. A desalination plant alone is not sufficient to secure our water supplies. We are continuing with the security through diversity program. This is a fantastic additional source of water for the people of Western Australia. It is incredible that although the rest of Australia acknowledges that Western Australia is a leader in this field, the Western Australian opposition continues to bag WA. The mob opposite can never represent the interests of Western Australia. People right across Australia - from the Parliamentary Secretary to the Prime Minister down - are looking to WA’s lead and saying what a good job we have done. However, those opposite continue to bag Western Australia because they do not represent the people of Western Australia. Indeed, they have no understanding of how to do so.
Mr C.J. Barnett interjected. Withdrawal of Remark Mr A.J. CARPENTER : The member for Cottesloe accused the Minister for Water Resources of telling a lie to Parliament. The SPEAKER : I did not hear him say that. If the member for Cottesloe uttered those words, he knows that they are unparliamentary and that they should be withdrawn. Mr C.J. BARNETT : I said that it is a lie to say that the plant is powered by renewable energy. If that is offensive to Parliament, I withdraw. Questions without Notice Resumed Mr J.C. KOBELKE : I repeat: the desalination plant’s energy source is the new Emu Downs Wind Farm. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! I call the member for Darling Range to order for the second time. Mr J.C. KOBELKE : The desalination plant is powered by energy from the Emu Downs Wind Farm. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! I call the member for Cottesloe to order for the first time. Mr J.C. KOBELKE : The ridiculous statements coming from the opposition are in line with its view - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! I call the members for Nedlands and Greenough to order. Mr J.C. KOBELKE : The opposition’s comments are keeping with the view that it took to the last election that, because when one holds a map, Kununurra is north of Perth, water could run down a pipeline to Perth. They did not think to turn the map the other way and acknowledge that the pipeline could run back the other way. They have no idea that more power would be needed to bring water from the Kimberley by pipeline than will be required to run the desalination plant in Kwinana. That is how out of touch members opposite are with the reality of producing water. Mr T. Buswell interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, member for Vasse! Mr J.C. KOBELKE : One can understand why members opposite take issue with the fact that the plant is being driven by wind power. Clearly, they have no idea how water can be provided to the people of Western Australia; nor do they have any idea how to do so in an environmentally acceptable way. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the members for Cottesloe and Darling Range to order. Mr J.C. KOBELKE : The Kwinana desalination plant on the shore of Cockburn Sound is the third largest operating plant of its kind in the world. When it becomes fully operational in about two months, it will produce an average of 130 million litres of drinking water a day. Further, it will supply 17 per cent of Perth’s current water supply needs. The plant, and its associated infrastructure, is a marvellous engineering achievement. The hundreds of people involved in the project worked under severe time constraints to produce a world-class facility in just under two years. The project has been delivered on time and on budget. This is a remarkable achievement given the current competition for skilled resources in WA’s buoyant economy. I congratulate Dr Jim Gill and his Water Corporation project team, and the Multiplex Degremont Joint Venture, which worked with the corporation to build this innovative plant. The desalination plant has been the subject of the most rigorous environmental approval procedure ever imposed on a Water Corporation project. The strict monitoring criteria that have been set include the measurement of the concentration of discharge into Cockburn Sound to ensure that the plant does not have a detrimental effect. In turn, the Water Corporation has responded to the approval conditions by establishing the most intensive ocean monitoring program of any desalination plant in the world to gauge the impact on marine life and water quality in the sound. A desalination plant alone is not sufficient to secure our water supplies. We are continuing with the security through diversity program. This is a fantastic additional source of water for the people of Western Australia. It is incredible that although the rest of Australia acknowledges that Western Australia is a leader in this field, the Western Australian opposition continues to bag WA. The mob opposite can never represent the interests of Western Australia. People right across Australia - from the Parliamentary Secretary to the Prime Minister down - are looking to WA’s lead and saying what a good job we have done. However, those opposite continue to bag Western Australia because they do not represent the people of Western Australia. Indeed, they have no understanding of how to do so.
The SPEAKER : I did not hear him say that. If the member for Cottesloe uttered those words, he knows that they are unparliamentary and that they should be withdrawn. Mr C.J. BARNETT : I said that it is a lie to say that the plant is powered by renewable energy. If that is offensive to Parliament, I withdraw. Questions without Notice Resumed Mr J.C. KOBELKE : I repeat: the desalination plant’s energy source is the new Emu Downs Wind Farm. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! I call the member for Darling Range to order for the second time. Mr J.C. KOBELKE : The desalination plant is powered by energy from the Emu Downs Wind Farm. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! I call the member for Cottesloe to order for the first time. Mr J.C. KOBELKE : The ridiculous statements coming from the opposition are in line with its view - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! I call the members for Nedlands and Greenough to order. Mr J.C. KOBELKE : The opposition’s comments are keeping with the view that it took to the last election that, because when one holds a map, Kununurra is north of Perth, water could run down a pipeline to Perth. They did not think to turn the map the other way and acknowledge that the pipeline could run back the other way. They have no idea that more power would be needed to bring water from the Kimberley by pipeline than will be required to run the desalination plant in Kwinana. That is how out of touch members opposite are with the reality of producing water. Mr T. Buswell interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, member for Vasse! Mr J.C. KOBELKE : One can understand why members opposite take issue with the fact that the plant is being driven by wind power. Clearly, they have no idea how water can be provided to the people of Western Australia; nor do they have any idea how to do so in an environmentally acceptable way. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the members for Cottesloe and Darling Range to order. Mr J.C. KOBELKE : The Kwinana desalination plant on the shore of Cockburn Sound is the third largest operating plant of its kind in the world. When it becomes fully operational in about two months, it will produce an average of 130 million litres of drinking water a day. Further, it will supply 17 per cent of Perth’s current water supply needs. The plant, and its associated infrastructure, is a marvellous engineering achievement. The hundreds of people involved in the project worked under severe time constraints to produce a world-class facility in just under two years. The project has been delivered on time and on budget. This is a remarkable achievement given the current competition for skilled resources in WA’s buoyant economy. I congratulate Dr Jim Gill and his Water Corporation project team, and the Multiplex Degremont Joint Venture, which worked with the corporation to build this innovative plant. The desalination plant has been the subject of the most rigorous environmental approval procedure ever imposed on a Water Corporation project. The strict monitoring criteria that have been set include the measurement of the concentration of discharge into Cockburn Sound to ensure that the plant does not have a detrimental effect. In turn, the Water Corporation has responded to the approval conditions by establishing the most intensive ocean monitoring program of any desalination plant in the world to gauge the impact on marine life and water quality in the sound. A desalination plant alone is not sufficient to secure our water supplies. We are continuing with the security through diversity program. This is a fantastic additional source of water for the people of Western Australia. It is incredible that although the rest of Australia acknowledges that Western Australia is a leader in this field, the Western Australian opposition continues to bag WA. The mob opposite can never represent the interests of Western Australia. People right across Australia - from the Parliamentary Secretary to the Prime Minister down - are looking to WA’s lead and saying what a good job we have done. However, those opposite continue to bag Western Australia because they do not represent the people of Western Australia. Indeed, they have no understanding of how to do so.
Mr C.J. BARNETT : I said that it is a lie to say that the plant is powered by renewable energy. If that is offensive to Parliament, I withdraw. Questions without Notice Resumed Mr J.C. KOBELKE : I repeat: the desalination plant’s energy source is the new Emu Downs Wind Farm. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! I call the member for Darling Range to order for the second time. Mr J.C. KOBELKE : The desalination plant is powered by energy from the Emu Downs Wind Farm. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! I call the member for Cottesloe to order for the first time. Mr J.C. KOBELKE : The ridiculous statements coming from the opposition are in line with its view - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! I call the members for Nedlands and Greenough to order. Mr J.C. KOBELKE : The opposition’s comments are keeping with the view that it took to the last election that, because when one holds a map, Kununurra is north of Perth, water could run down a pipeline to Perth. They did not think to turn the map the other way and acknowledge that the pipeline could run back the other way. They have no idea that more power would be needed to bring water from the Kimberley by pipeline than will be required to run the desalination plant in Kwinana. That is how out of touch members opposite are with the reality of producing water. Mr T. Buswell interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, member for Vasse! Mr J.C. KOBELKE : One can understand why members opposite take issue with the fact that the plant is being driven by wind power. Clearly, they have no idea how water can be provided to the people of Western Australia; nor do they have any idea how to do so in an environmentally acceptable way. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the members for Cottesloe and Darling Range to order. Mr J.C. KOBELKE : The Kwinana desalination plant on the shore of Cockburn Sound is the third largest operating plant of its kind in the world. When it becomes fully operational in about two months, it will produce an average of 130 million litres of drinking water a day. Further, it will supply 17 per cent of Perth’s current water supply needs. The plant, and its associated infrastructure, is a marvellous engineering achievement. The hundreds of people involved in the project worked under severe time constraints to produce a world-class facility in just under two years. The project has been delivered on time and on budget. This is a remarkable achievement given the current competition for skilled resources in WA’s buoyant economy. I congratulate Dr Jim Gill and his Water Corporation project team, and the Multiplex Degremont Joint Venture, which worked with the corporation to build this innovative plant. The desalination plant has been the subject of the most rigorous environmental approval procedure ever imposed on a Water Corporation project. The strict monitoring criteria that have been set include the measurement of the concentration of discharge into Cockburn Sound to ensure that the plant does not have a detrimental effect. In turn, the Water Corporation has responded to the approval conditions by establishing the most intensive ocean monitoring program of any desalination plant in the world to gauge the impact on marine life and water quality in the sound. A desalination plant alone is not sufficient to secure our water supplies. We are continuing with the security through diversity program. This is a fantastic additional source of water for the people of Western Australia. It is incredible that although the rest of Australia acknowledges that Western Australia is a leader in this field, the Western Australian opposition continues to bag WA. The mob opposite can never represent the interests of Western Australia. People right across Australia - from the Parliamentary Secretary to the Prime Minister down - are looking to WA’s lead and saying what a good job we have done. However, those opposite continue to bag Western Australia because they do not represent the people of Western Australia. Indeed, they have no understanding of how to do so.
Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! I call the member for Darling Range to order for the second time. Mr J.C. KOBELKE : The desalination plant is powered by energy from the Emu Downs Wind Farm. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! I call the member for Cottesloe to order for the first time. Mr J.C. KOBELKE : The ridiculous statements coming from the opposition are in line with its view - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! I call the members for Nedlands and Greenough to order. Mr J.C. KOBELKE : The opposition’s comments are keeping with the view that it took to the last election that, because when one holds a map, Kununurra is north of Perth, water could run down a pipeline to Perth. They did not think to turn the map the other way and acknowledge that the pipeline could run back the other way. They have no idea that more power would be needed to bring water from the Kimberley by pipeline than will be required to run the desalination plant in Kwinana. That is how out of touch members opposite are with the reality of producing water. Mr T. Buswell interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, member for Vasse! Mr J.C. KOBELKE : One can understand why members opposite take issue with the fact that the plant is being driven by wind power. Clearly, they have no idea how water can be provided to the people of Western Australia; nor do they have any idea how to do so in an environmentally acceptable way. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the members for Cottesloe and Darling Range to order. Mr J.C. KOBELKE : The Kwinana desalination plant on the shore of Cockburn Sound is the third largest operating plant of its kind in the world. When it becomes fully operational in about two months, it will produce an average of 130 million litres of drinking water a day. Further, it will supply 17 per cent of Perth’s current water supply needs. The plant, and its associated infrastructure, is a marvellous engineering achievement. The hundreds of people involved in the project worked under severe time constraints to produce a world-class facility in just under two years. The project has been delivered on time and on budget. This is a remarkable achievement given the current competition for skilled resources in WA’s buoyant economy. I congratulate Dr Jim Gill and his Water Corporation project team, and the Multiplex Degremont Joint Venture, which worked with the corporation to build this innovative plant. The desalination plant has been the subject of the most rigorous environmental approval procedure ever imposed on a Water Corporation project. The strict monitoring criteria that have been set include the measurement of the concentration of discharge into Cockburn Sound to ensure that the plant does not have a detrimental effect. In turn, the Water Corporation has responded to the approval conditions by establishing the most intensive ocean monitoring program of any desalination plant in the world to gauge the impact on marine life and water quality in the sound. A desalination plant alone is not sufficient to secure our water supplies. We are continuing with the security through diversity program. This is a fantastic additional source of water for the people of Western Australia. It is incredible that although the rest of Australia acknowledges that Western Australia is a leader in this field, the Western Australian opposition continues to bag WA. The mob opposite can never represent the interests of Western Australia. People right across Australia - from the Parliamentary Secretary to the Prime Minister down - are looking to WA’s lead and saying what a good job we have done. However, those opposite continue to bag Western Australia because they do not represent the people of Western Australia. Indeed, they have no understanding of how to do so.
The SPEAKER : Order, members! I call the member for Darling Range to order for the second time. Mr J.C. KOBELKE : The desalination plant is powered by energy from the Emu Downs Wind Farm. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! I call the member for Cottesloe to order for the first time. Mr J.C. KOBELKE : The ridiculous statements coming from the opposition are in line with its view - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! I call the members for Nedlands and Greenough to order. Mr J.C. KOBELKE : The opposition’s comments are keeping with the view that it took to the last election that, because when one holds a map, Kununurra is north of Perth, water could run down a pipeline to Perth. They did not think to turn the map the other way and acknowledge that the pipeline could run back the other way. They have no idea that more power would be needed to bring water from the Kimberley by pipeline than will be required to run the desalination plant in Kwinana. That is how out of touch members opposite are with the reality of producing water. Mr T. Buswell interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, member for Vasse! Mr J.C. KOBELKE : One can understand why members opposite take issue with the fact that the plant is being driven by wind power. Clearly, they have no idea how water can be provided to the people of Western Australia; nor do they have any idea how to do so in an environmentally acceptable way. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the members for Cottesloe and Darling Range to order. Mr J.C. KOBELKE : The Kwinana desalination plant on the shore of Cockburn Sound is the third largest operating plant of its kind in the world. When it becomes fully operational in about two months, it will produce an average of 130 million litres of drinking water a day. Further, it will supply 17 per cent of Perth’s current water supply needs. The plant, and its associated infrastructure, is a marvellous engineering achievement. The hundreds of people involved in the project worked under severe time constraints to produce a world-class facility in just under two years. The project has been delivered on time and on budget. This is a remarkable achievement given the current competition for skilled resources in WA’s buoyant economy. I congratulate Dr Jim Gill and his Water Corporation project team, and the Multiplex Degremont Joint Venture, which worked with the corporation to build this innovative plant. The desalination plant has been the subject of the most rigorous environmental approval procedure ever imposed on a Water Corporation project. The strict monitoring criteria that have been set include the measurement of the concentration of discharge into Cockburn Sound to ensure that the plant does not have a detrimental effect. In turn, the Water Corporation has responded to the approval conditions by establishing the most intensive ocean monitoring program of any desalination plant in the world to gauge the impact on marine life and water quality in the sound. A desalination plant alone is not sufficient to secure our water supplies. We are continuing with the security through diversity program. This is a fantastic additional source of water for the people of Western Australia. It is incredible that although the rest of Australia acknowledges that Western Australia is a leader in this field, the Western Australian opposition continues to bag WA. The mob opposite can never represent the interests of Western Australia. People right across Australia - from the Parliamentary Secretary to the Prime Minister down - are looking to WA’s lead and saying what a good job we have done. However, those opposite continue to bag Western Australia because they do not represent the people of Western Australia. Indeed, they have no understanding of how to do so.
Mr J.C. KOBELKE : The desalination plant is powered by energy from the Emu Downs Wind Farm. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! I call the member for Cottesloe to order for the first time. Mr J.C. KOBELKE : The ridiculous statements coming from the opposition are in line with its view - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! I call the members for Nedlands and Greenough to order. Mr J.C. KOBELKE : The opposition’s comments are keeping with the view that it took to the last election that, because when one holds a map, Kununurra is north of Perth, water could run down a pipeline to Perth. They did not think to turn the map the other way and acknowledge that the pipeline could run back the other way. They have no idea that more power would be needed to bring water from the Kimberley by pipeline than will be required to run the desalination plant in Kwinana. That is how out of touch members opposite are with the reality of producing water. Mr T. Buswell interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, member for Vasse! Mr J.C. KOBELKE : One can understand why members opposite take issue with the fact that the plant is being driven by wind power. Clearly, they have no idea how water can be provided to the people of Western Australia; nor do they have any idea how to do so in an environmentally acceptable way. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the members for Cottesloe and Darling Range to order. Mr J.C. KOBELKE : The Kwinana desalination plant on the shore of Cockburn Sound is the third largest operating plant of its kind in the world. When it becomes fully operational in about two months, it will produce an average of 130 million litres of drinking water a day. Further, it will supply 17 per cent of Perth’s current water supply needs. The plant, and its associated infrastructure, is a marvellous engineering achievement. The hundreds of people involved in the project worked under severe time constraints to produce a world-class facility in just under two years. The project has been delivered on time and on budget. This is a remarkable achievement given the current competition for skilled resources in WA’s buoyant economy. I congratulate Dr Jim Gill and his Water Corporation project team, and the Multiplex Degremont Joint Venture, which worked with the corporation to build this innovative plant. The desalination plant has been the subject of the most rigorous environmental approval procedure ever imposed on a Water Corporation project. The strict monitoring criteria that have been set include the measurement of the concentration of discharge into Cockburn Sound to ensure that the plant does not have a detrimental effect. In turn, the Water Corporation has responded to the approval conditions by establishing the most intensive ocean monitoring program of any desalination plant in the world to gauge the impact on marine life and water quality in the sound. A desalination plant alone is not sufficient to secure our water supplies. We are continuing with the security through diversity program. This is a fantastic additional source of water for the people of Western Australia. It is incredible that although the rest of Australia acknowledges that Western Australia is a leader in this field, the Western Australian opposition continues to bag WA. The mob opposite can never represent the interests of Western Australia. People right across Australia - from the Parliamentary Secretary to the Prime Minister down - are looking to WA’s lead and saying what a good job we have done. However, those opposite continue to bag Western Australia because they do not represent the people of Western Australia. Indeed, they have no understanding of how to do so.
Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! I call the member for Cottesloe to order for the first time. Mr J.C. KOBELKE : The ridiculous statements coming from the opposition are in line with its view - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! I call the members for Nedlands and Greenough to order. Mr J.C. KOBELKE : The opposition’s comments are keeping with the view that it took to the last election that, because when one holds a map, Kununurra is north of Perth, water could run down a pipeline to Perth. They did not think to turn the map the other way and acknowledge that the pipeline could run back the other way. They have no idea that more power would be needed to bring water from the Kimberley by pipeline than will be required to run the desalination plant in Kwinana. That is how out of touch members opposite are with the reality of producing water. Mr T. Buswell interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, member for Vasse! Mr J.C. KOBELKE : One can understand why members opposite take issue with the fact that the plant is being driven by wind power. Clearly, they have no idea how water can be provided to the people of Western Australia; nor do they have any idea how to do so in an environmentally acceptable way. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the members for Cottesloe and Darling Range to order. Mr J.C. KOBELKE : The Kwinana desalination plant on the shore of Cockburn Sound is the third largest operating plant of its kind in the world. When it becomes fully operational in about two months, it will produce an average of 130 million litres of drinking water a day. Further, it will supply 17 per cent of Perth’s current water supply needs. The plant, and its associated infrastructure, is a marvellous engineering achievement. The hundreds of people involved in the project worked under severe time constraints to produce a world-class facility in just under two years. The project has been delivered on time and on budget. This is a remarkable achievement given the current competition for skilled resources in WA’s buoyant economy. I congratulate Dr Jim Gill and his Water Corporation project team, and the Multiplex Degremont Joint Venture, which worked with the corporation to build this innovative plant. The desalination plant has been the subject of the most rigorous environmental approval procedure ever imposed on a Water Corporation project. The strict monitoring criteria that have been set include the measurement of the concentration of discharge into Cockburn Sound to ensure that the plant does not have a detrimental effect. In turn, the Water Corporation has responded to the approval conditions by establishing the most intensive ocean monitoring program of any desalination plant in the world to gauge the impact on marine life and water quality in the sound. A desalination plant alone is not sufficient to secure our water supplies. We are continuing with the security through diversity program. This is a fantastic additional source of water for the people of Western Australia. It is incredible that although the rest of Australia acknowledges that Western Australia is a leader in this field, the Western Australian opposition continues to bag WA. The mob opposite can never represent the interests of Western Australia. People right across Australia - from the Parliamentary Secretary to the Prime Minister down - are looking to WA’s lead and saying what a good job we have done. However, those opposite continue to bag Western Australia because they do not represent the people of Western Australia. Indeed, they have no understanding of how to do so.
The SPEAKER : Order, members! I call the member for Cottesloe to order for the first time. Mr J.C. KOBELKE : The ridiculous statements coming from the opposition are in line with its view - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! I call the members for Nedlands and Greenough to order. Mr J.C. KOBELKE : The opposition’s comments are keeping with the view that it took to the last election that, because when one holds a map, Kununurra is north of Perth, water could run down a pipeline to Perth. They did not think to turn the map the other way and acknowledge that the pipeline could run back the other way. They have no idea that more power would be needed to bring water from the Kimberley by pipeline than will be required to run the desalination plant in Kwinana. That is how out of touch members opposite are with the reality of producing water. Mr T. Buswell interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, member for Vasse! Mr J.C. KOBELKE : One can understand why members opposite take issue with the fact that the plant is being driven by wind power. Clearly, they have no idea how water can be provided to the people of Western Australia; nor do they have any idea how to do so in an environmentally acceptable way. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the members for Cottesloe and Darling Range to order. Mr J.C. KOBELKE : The Kwinana desalination plant on the shore of Cockburn Sound is the third largest operating plant of its kind in the world. When it becomes fully operational in about two months, it will produce an average of 130 million litres of drinking water a day. Further, it will supply 17 per cent of Perth’s current water supply needs. The plant, and its associated infrastructure, is a marvellous engineering achievement. The hundreds of people involved in the project worked under severe time constraints to produce a world-class facility in just under two years. The project has been delivered on time and on budget. This is a remarkable achievement given the current competition for skilled resources in WA’s buoyant economy. I congratulate Dr Jim Gill and his Water Corporation project team, and the Multiplex Degremont Joint Venture, which worked with the corporation to build this innovative plant. The desalination plant has been the subject of the most rigorous environmental approval procedure ever imposed on a Water Corporation project. The strict monitoring criteria that have been set include the measurement of the concentration of discharge into Cockburn Sound to ensure that the plant does not have a detrimental effect. In turn, the Water Corporation has responded to the approval conditions by establishing the most intensive ocean monitoring program of any desalination plant in the world to gauge the impact on marine life and water quality in the sound. A desalination plant alone is not sufficient to secure our water supplies. We are continuing with the security through diversity program. This is a fantastic additional source of water for the people of Western Australia. It is incredible that although the rest of Australia acknowledges that Western Australia is a leader in this field, the Western Australian opposition continues to bag WA. The mob opposite can never represent the interests of Western Australia. People right across Australia - from the Parliamentary Secretary to the Prime Minister down - are looking to WA’s lead and saying what a good job we have done. However, those opposite continue to bag Western Australia because they do not represent the people of Western Australia. Indeed, they have no understanding of how to do so.
Mr J.C. KOBELKE : The ridiculous statements coming from the opposition are in line with its view - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! I call the members for Nedlands and Greenough to order. Mr J.C. KOBELKE : The opposition’s comments are keeping with the view that it took to the last election that, because when one holds a map, Kununurra is north of Perth, water could run down a pipeline to Perth. They did not think to turn the map the other way and acknowledge that the pipeline could run back the other way. They have no idea that more power would be needed to bring water from the Kimberley by pipeline than will be required to run the desalination plant in Kwinana. That is how out of touch members opposite are with the reality of producing water. Mr T. Buswell interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, member for Vasse! Mr J.C. KOBELKE : One can understand why members opposite take issue with the fact that the plant is being driven by wind power. Clearly, they have no idea how water can be provided to the people of Western Australia; nor do they have any idea how to do so in an environmentally acceptable way. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the members for Cottesloe and Darling Range to order. Mr J.C. KOBELKE : The Kwinana desalination plant on the shore of Cockburn Sound is the third largest operating plant of its kind in the world. When it becomes fully operational in about two months, it will produce an average of 130 million litres of drinking water a day. Further, it will supply 17 per cent of Perth’s current water supply needs. The plant, and its associated infrastructure, is a marvellous engineering achievement. The hundreds of people involved in the project worked under severe time constraints to produce a world-class facility in just under two years. The project has been delivered on time and on budget. This is a remarkable achievement given the current competition for skilled resources in WA’s buoyant economy. I congratulate Dr Jim Gill and his Water Corporation project team, and the Multiplex Degremont Joint Venture, which worked with the corporation to build this innovative plant. The desalination plant has been the subject of the most rigorous environmental approval procedure ever imposed on a Water Corporation project. The strict monitoring criteria that have been set include the measurement of the concentration of discharge into Cockburn Sound to ensure that the plant does not have a detrimental effect. In turn, the Water Corporation has responded to the approval conditions by establishing the most intensive ocean monitoring program of any desalination plant in the world to gauge the impact on marine life and water quality in the sound. A desalination plant alone is not sufficient to secure our water supplies. We are continuing with the security through diversity program. This is a fantastic additional source of water for the people of Western Australia. It is incredible that although the rest of Australia acknowledges that Western Australia is a leader in this field, the Western Australian opposition continues to bag WA. The mob opposite can never represent the interests of Western Australia. People right across Australia - from the Parliamentary Secretary to the Prime Minister down - are looking to WA’s lead and saying what a good job we have done. However, those opposite continue to bag Western Australia because they do not represent the people of Western Australia. Indeed, they have no understanding of how to do so.
Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! I call the members for Nedlands and Greenough to order. Mr J.C. KOBELKE : The opposition’s comments are keeping with the view that it took to the last election that, because when one holds a map, Kununurra is north of Perth, water could run down a pipeline to Perth. They did not think to turn the map the other way and acknowledge that the pipeline could run back the other way. They have no idea that more power would be needed to bring water from the Kimberley by pipeline than will be required to run the desalination plant in Kwinana. That is how out of touch members opposite are with the reality of producing water. Mr T. Buswell interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, member for Vasse! Mr J.C. KOBELKE : One can understand why members opposite take issue with the fact that the plant is being driven by wind power. Clearly, they have no idea how water can be provided to the people of Western Australia; nor do they have any idea how to do so in an environmentally acceptable way. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the members for Cottesloe and Darling Range to order. Mr J.C. KOBELKE : The Kwinana desalination plant on the shore of Cockburn Sound is the third largest operating plant of its kind in the world. When it becomes fully operational in about two months, it will produce an average of 130 million litres of drinking water a day. Further, it will supply 17 per cent of Perth’s current water supply needs. The plant, and its associated infrastructure, is a marvellous engineering achievement. The hundreds of people involved in the project worked under severe time constraints to produce a world-class facility in just under two years. The project has been delivered on time and on budget. This is a remarkable achievement given the current competition for skilled resources in WA’s buoyant economy. I congratulate Dr Jim Gill and his Water Corporation project team, and the Multiplex Degremont Joint Venture, which worked with the corporation to build this innovative plant. The desalination plant has been the subject of the most rigorous environmental approval procedure ever imposed on a Water Corporation project. The strict monitoring criteria that have been set include the measurement of the concentration of discharge into Cockburn Sound to ensure that the plant does not have a detrimental effect. In turn, the Water Corporation has responded to the approval conditions by establishing the most intensive ocean monitoring program of any desalination plant in the world to gauge the impact on marine life and water quality in the sound. A desalination plant alone is not sufficient to secure our water supplies. We are continuing with the security through diversity program. This is a fantastic additional source of water for the people of Western Australia. It is incredible that although the rest of Australia acknowledges that Western Australia is a leader in this field, the Western Australian opposition continues to bag WA. The mob opposite can never represent the interests of Western Australia. People right across Australia - from the Parliamentary Secretary to the Prime Minister down - are looking to WA’s lead and saying what a good job we have done. However, those opposite continue to bag Western Australia because they do not represent the people of Western Australia. Indeed, they have no understanding of how to do so.
The SPEAKER : Order, members! I call the members for Nedlands and Greenough to order. Mr J.C. KOBELKE : The opposition’s comments are keeping with the view that it took to the last election that, because when one holds a map, Kununurra is north of Perth, water could run down a pipeline to Perth. They did not think to turn the map the other way and acknowledge that the pipeline could run back the other way. They have no idea that more power would be needed to bring water from the Kimberley by pipeline than will be required to run the desalination plant in Kwinana. That is how out of touch members opposite are with the reality of producing water. Mr T. Buswell interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, member for Vasse! Mr J.C. KOBELKE : One can understand why members opposite take issue with the fact that the plant is being driven by wind power. Clearly, they have no idea how water can be provided to the people of Western Australia; nor do they have any idea how to do so in an environmentally acceptable way. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the members for Cottesloe and Darling Range to order. Mr J.C. KOBELKE : The Kwinana desalination plant on the shore of Cockburn Sound is the third largest operating plant of its kind in the world. When it becomes fully operational in about two months, it will produce an average of 130 million litres of drinking water a day. Further, it will supply 17 per cent of Perth’s current water supply needs. The plant, and its associated infrastructure, is a marvellous engineering achievement. The hundreds of people involved in the project worked under severe time constraints to produce a world-class facility in just under two years. The project has been delivered on time and on budget. This is a remarkable achievement given the current competition for skilled resources in WA’s buoyant economy. I congratulate Dr Jim Gill and his Water Corporation project team, and the Multiplex Degremont Joint Venture, which worked with the corporation to build this innovative plant. The desalination plant has been the subject of the most rigorous environmental approval procedure ever imposed on a Water Corporation project. The strict monitoring criteria that have been set include the measurement of the concentration of discharge into Cockburn Sound to ensure that the plant does not have a detrimental effect. In turn, the Water Corporation has responded to the approval conditions by establishing the most intensive ocean monitoring program of any desalination plant in the world to gauge the impact on marine life and water quality in the sound. A desalination plant alone is not sufficient to secure our water supplies. We are continuing with the security through diversity program. This is a fantastic additional source of water for the people of Western Australia. It is incredible that although the rest of Australia acknowledges that Western Australia is a leader in this field, the Western Australian opposition continues to bag WA. The mob opposite can never represent the interests of Western Australia. People right across Australia - from the Parliamentary Secretary to the Prime Minister down - are looking to WA’s lead and saying what a good job we have done. However, those opposite continue to bag Western Australia because they do not represent the people of Western Australia. Indeed, they have no understanding of how to do so.
Mr J.C. KOBELKE : The opposition’s comments are keeping with the view that it took to the last election that, because when one holds a map, Kununurra is north of Perth, water could run down a pipeline to Perth. They did not think to turn the map the other way and acknowledge that the pipeline could run back the other way. They have no idea that more power would be needed to bring water from the Kimberley by pipeline than will be required to run the desalination plant in Kwinana. That is how out of touch members opposite are with the reality of producing water. Mr T. Buswell interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, member for Vasse! Mr J.C. KOBELKE : One can understand why members opposite take issue with the fact that the plant is being driven by wind power. Clearly, they have no idea how water can be provided to the people of Western Australia; nor do they have any idea how to do so in an environmentally acceptable way. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the members for Cottesloe and Darling Range to order. Mr J.C. KOBELKE : The Kwinana desalination plant on the shore of Cockburn Sound is the third largest operating plant of its kind in the world. When it becomes fully operational in about two months, it will produce an average of 130 million litres of drinking water a day. Further, it will supply 17 per cent of Perth’s current water supply needs. The plant, and its associated infrastructure, is a marvellous engineering achievement. The hundreds of people involved in the project worked under severe time constraints to produce a world-class facility in just under two years. The project has been delivered on time and on budget. This is a remarkable achievement given the current competition for skilled resources in WA’s buoyant economy. I congratulate Dr Jim Gill and his Water Corporation project team, and the Multiplex Degremont Joint Venture, which worked with the corporation to build this innovative plant. The desalination plant has been the subject of the most rigorous environmental approval procedure ever imposed on a Water Corporation project. The strict monitoring criteria that have been set include the measurement of the concentration of discharge into Cockburn Sound to ensure that the plant does not have a detrimental effect. In turn, the Water Corporation has responded to the approval conditions by establishing the most intensive ocean monitoring program of any desalination plant in the world to gauge the impact on marine life and water quality in the sound. A desalination plant alone is not sufficient to secure our water supplies. We are continuing with the security through diversity program. This is a fantastic additional source of water for the people of Western Australia. It is incredible that although the rest of Australia acknowledges that Western Australia is a leader in this field, the Western Australian opposition continues to bag WA. The mob opposite can never represent the interests of Western Australia. People right across Australia - from the Parliamentary Secretary to the Prime Minister down - are looking to WA’s lead and saying what a good job we have done. However, those opposite continue to bag Western Australia because they do not represent the people of Western Australia. Indeed, they have no understanding of how to do so.
Mr T. Buswell interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, member for Vasse! Mr J.C. KOBELKE : One can understand why members opposite take issue with the fact that the plant is being driven by wind power. Clearly, they have no idea how water can be provided to the people of Western Australia; nor do they have any idea how to do so in an environmentally acceptable way. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the members for Cottesloe and Darling Range to order. Mr J.C. KOBELKE : The Kwinana desalination plant on the shore of Cockburn Sound is the third largest operating plant of its kind in the world. When it becomes fully operational in about two months, it will produce an average of 130 million litres of drinking water a day. Further, it will supply 17 per cent of Perth’s current water supply needs. The plant, and its associated infrastructure, is a marvellous engineering achievement. The hundreds of people involved in the project worked under severe time constraints to produce a world-class facility in just under two years. The project has been delivered on time and on budget. This is a remarkable achievement given the current competition for skilled resources in WA’s buoyant economy. I congratulate Dr Jim Gill and his Water Corporation project team, and the Multiplex Degremont Joint Venture, which worked with the corporation to build this innovative plant. The desalination plant has been the subject of the most rigorous environmental approval procedure ever imposed on a Water Corporation project. The strict monitoring criteria that have been set include the measurement of the concentration of discharge into Cockburn Sound to ensure that the plant does not have a detrimental effect. In turn, the Water Corporation has responded to the approval conditions by establishing the most intensive ocean monitoring program of any desalination plant in the world to gauge the impact on marine life and water quality in the sound. A desalination plant alone is not sufficient to secure our water supplies. We are continuing with the security through diversity program. This is a fantastic additional source of water for the people of Western Australia. It is incredible that although the rest of Australia acknowledges that Western Australia is a leader in this field, the Western Australian opposition continues to bag WA. The mob opposite can never represent the interests of Western Australia. People right across Australia - from the Parliamentary Secretary to the Prime Minister down - are looking to WA’s lead and saying what a good job we have done. However, those opposite continue to bag Western Australia because they do not represent the people of Western Australia. Indeed, they have no understanding of how to do so.
The SPEAKER : Order, member for Vasse! Mr J.C. KOBELKE : One can understand why members opposite take issue with the fact that the plant is being driven by wind power. Clearly, they have no idea how water can be provided to the people of Western Australia; nor do they have any idea how to do so in an environmentally acceptable way. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the members for Cottesloe and Darling Range to order. Mr J.C. KOBELKE : The Kwinana desalination plant on the shore of Cockburn Sound is the third largest operating plant of its kind in the world. When it becomes fully operational in about two months, it will produce an average of 130 million litres of drinking water a day. Further, it will supply 17 per cent of Perth’s current water supply needs. The plant, and its associated infrastructure, is a marvellous engineering achievement. The hundreds of people involved in the project worked under severe time constraints to produce a world-class facility in just under two years. The project has been delivered on time and on budget. This is a remarkable achievement given the current competition for skilled resources in WA’s buoyant economy. I congratulate Dr Jim Gill and his Water Corporation project team, and the Multiplex Degremont Joint Venture, which worked with the corporation to build this innovative plant. The desalination plant has been the subject of the most rigorous environmental approval procedure ever imposed on a Water Corporation project. The strict monitoring criteria that have been set include the measurement of the concentration of discharge into Cockburn Sound to ensure that the plant does not have a detrimental effect. In turn, the Water Corporation has responded to the approval conditions by establishing the most intensive ocean monitoring program of any desalination plant in the world to gauge the impact on marine life and water quality in the sound. A desalination plant alone is not sufficient to secure our water supplies. We are continuing with the security through diversity program. This is a fantastic additional source of water for the people of Western Australia. It is incredible that although the rest of Australia acknowledges that Western Australia is a leader in this field, the Western Australian opposition continues to bag WA. The mob opposite can never represent the interests of Western Australia. People right across Australia - from the Parliamentary Secretary to the Prime Minister down - are looking to WA’s lead and saying what a good job we have done. However, those opposite continue to bag Western Australia because they do not represent the people of Western Australia. Indeed, they have no understanding of how to do so.
Mr J.C. KOBELKE : One can understand why members opposite take issue with the fact that the plant is being driven by wind power. Clearly, they have no idea how water can be provided to the people of Western Australia; nor do they have any idea how to do so in an environmentally acceptable way. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the members for Cottesloe and Darling Range to order. Mr J.C. KOBELKE : The Kwinana desalination plant on the shore of Cockburn Sound is the third largest operating plant of its kind in the world. When it becomes fully operational in about two months, it will produce an average of 130 million litres of drinking water a day. Further, it will supply 17 per cent of Perth’s current water supply needs. The plant, and its associated infrastructure, is a marvellous engineering achievement. The hundreds of people involved in the project worked under severe time constraints to produce a world-class facility in just under two years. The project has been delivered on time and on budget. This is a remarkable achievement given the current competition for skilled resources in WA’s buoyant economy. I congratulate Dr Jim Gill and his Water Corporation project team, and the Multiplex Degremont Joint Venture, which worked with the corporation to build this innovative plant. The desalination plant has been the subject of the most rigorous environmental approval procedure ever imposed on a Water Corporation project. The strict monitoring criteria that have been set include the measurement of the concentration of discharge into Cockburn Sound to ensure that the plant does not have a detrimental effect. In turn, the Water Corporation has responded to the approval conditions by establishing the most intensive ocean monitoring program of any desalination plant in the world to gauge the impact on marine life and water quality in the sound. A desalination plant alone is not sufficient to secure our water supplies. We are continuing with the security through diversity program. This is a fantastic additional source of water for the people of Western Australia. It is incredible that although the rest of Australia acknowledges that Western Australia is a leader in this field, the Western Australian opposition continues to bag WA. The mob opposite can never represent the interests of Western Australia. People right across Australia - from the Parliamentary Secretary to the Prime Minister down - are looking to WA’s lead and saying what a good job we have done. However, those opposite continue to bag Western Australia because they do not represent the people of Western Australia. Indeed, they have no understanding of how to do so.
Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the members for Cottesloe and Darling Range to order. Mr J.C. KOBELKE : The Kwinana desalination plant on the shore of Cockburn Sound is the third largest operating plant of its kind in the world. When it becomes fully operational in about two months, it will produce an average of 130 million litres of drinking water a day. Further, it will supply 17 per cent of Perth’s current water supply needs. The plant, and its associated infrastructure, is a marvellous engineering achievement. The hundreds of people involved in the project worked under severe time constraints to produce a world-class facility in just under two years. The project has been delivered on time and on budget. This is a remarkable achievement given the current competition for skilled resources in WA’s buoyant economy. I congratulate Dr Jim Gill and his Water Corporation project team, and the Multiplex Degremont Joint Venture, which worked with the corporation to build this innovative plant. The desalination plant has been the subject of the most rigorous environmental approval procedure ever imposed on a Water Corporation project. The strict monitoring criteria that have been set include the measurement of the concentration of discharge into Cockburn Sound to ensure that the plant does not have a detrimental effect. In turn, the Water Corporation has responded to the approval conditions by establishing the most intensive ocean monitoring program of any desalination plant in the world to gauge the impact on marine life and water quality in the sound. A desalination plant alone is not sufficient to secure our water supplies. We are continuing with the security through diversity program. This is a fantastic additional source of water for the people of Western Australia. It is incredible that although the rest of Australia acknowledges that Western Australia is a leader in this field, the Western Australian opposition continues to bag WA. The mob opposite can never represent the interests of Western Australia. People right across Australia - from the Parliamentary Secretary to the Prime Minister down - are looking to WA’s lead and saying what a good job we have done. However, those opposite continue to bag Western Australia because they do not represent the people of Western Australia. Indeed, they have no understanding of how to do so.
The SPEAKER : I call the members for Cottesloe and Darling Range to order. Mr J.C. KOBELKE : The Kwinana desalination plant on the shore of Cockburn Sound is the third largest operating plant of its kind in the world. When it becomes fully operational in about two months, it will produce an average of 130 million litres of drinking water a day. Further, it will supply 17 per cent of Perth’s current water supply needs. The plant, and its associated infrastructure, is a marvellous engineering achievement. The hundreds of people involved in the project worked under severe time constraints to produce a world-class facility in just under two years. The project has been delivered on time and on budget. This is a remarkable achievement given the current competition for skilled resources in WA’s buoyant economy. I congratulate Dr Jim Gill and his Water Corporation project team, and the Multiplex Degremont Joint Venture, which worked with the corporation to build this innovative plant. The desalination plant has been the subject of the most rigorous environmental approval procedure ever imposed on a Water Corporation project. The strict monitoring criteria that have been set include the measurement of the concentration of discharge into Cockburn Sound to ensure that the plant does not have a detrimental effect. In turn, the Water Corporation has responded to the approval conditions by establishing the most intensive ocean monitoring program of any desalination plant in the world to gauge the impact on marine life and water quality in the sound. A desalination plant alone is not sufficient to secure our water supplies. We are continuing with the security through diversity program. This is a fantastic additional source of water for the people of Western Australia. It is incredible that although the rest of Australia acknowledges that Western Australia is a leader in this field, the Western Australian opposition continues to bag WA. The mob opposite can never represent the interests of Western Australia. People right across Australia - from the Parliamentary Secretary to the Prime Minister down - are looking to WA’s lead and saying what a good job we have done. However, those opposite continue to bag Western Australia because they do not represent the people of Western Australia. Indeed, they have no understanding of how to do so.
Mr J.C. KOBELKE : The Kwinana desalination plant on the shore of Cockburn Sound is the third largest operating plant of its kind in the world. When it becomes fully operational in about two months, it will produce an average of 130 million litres of drinking water a day. Further, it will supply 17 per cent of Perth’s current water supply needs. The plant, and its associated infrastructure, is a marvellous engineering achievement. The hundreds of people involved in the project worked under severe time constraints to produce a world-class facility in just under two years. The project has been delivered on time and on budget. This is a remarkable achievement given the current competition for skilled resources in WA’s buoyant economy. I congratulate Dr Jim Gill and his Water Corporation project team, and the Multiplex Degremont Joint Venture, which worked with the corporation to build this innovative plant. The desalination plant has been the subject of the most rigorous environmental approval procedure ever imposed on a Water Corporation project. The strict monitoring criteria that have been set include the measurement of the concentration of discharge into Cockburn Sound to ensure that the plant does not have a detrimental effect. In turn, the Water Corporation has responded to the approval conditions by establishing the most intensive ocean monitoring program of any desalination plant in the world to gauge the impact on marine life and water quality in the sound. A desalination plant alone is not sufficient to secure our water supplies. We are continuing with the security through diversity program. This is a fantastic additional source of water for the people of Western Australia. It is incredible that although the rest of Australia acknowledges that Western Australia is a leader in this field, the Western Australian opposition continues to bag WA. The mob opposite can never represent the interests of Western Australia. People right across Australia - from the Parliamentary Secretary to the Prime Minister down - are looking to WA’s lead and saying what a good job we have done. However, those opposite continue to bag Western Australia because they do not represent the people of Western Australia. Indeed, they have no understanding of how to do so.
Mr J.C. KOBELKE replied: I thank the member for her question. Sunday was a historic day for our state and our nation when the Premier opened Australia’s first large-scale seawater desalination plant at Kwinana. Western Australia became the first state in the commonwealth to use rainfall-independent desalination as a major public water source. Pure drinking water filtered from Indian Ocean sea water is now circulating in Perth’s water supply network and is blending with our traditional ground water and surface water sources. This is the largest desalination plant in the world powered by renewable energy. The plant’s energy source is the new Emu Downs Wind Farm, which is some 200 kilometres - Mr C.J. Barnett interjected. Withdrawal of Remark Mr A.J. CARPENTER : The member for Cottesloe accused the Minister for Water Resources of telling a lie to Parliament. The SPEAKER : I did not hear him say that. If the member for Cottesloe uttered those words, he knows that they are unparliamentary and that they should be withdrawn. Mr C.J. BARNETT : I said that it is a lie to say that the plant is powered by renewable energy. If that is offensive to Parliament, I withdraw. Questions without Notice Resumed Mr J.C. KOBELKE : I repeat: the desalination plant’s energy source is the new Emu Downs Wind Farm. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! I call the member for Darling Range to order for the second time. Mr J.C. KOBELKE : The desalination plant is powered by energy from the Emu Downs Wind Farm. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! I call the member for Cottesloe to order for the first time. Mr J.C. KOBELKE : The ridiculous statements coming from the opposition are in line with its view - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! I call the members for Nedlands and Greenough to order. Mr J.C. KOBELKE : The opposition’s comments are keeping with the view that it took to the last election that, because when one holds a map, Kununurra is north of Perth, water could run down a pipeline to Perth. They did not think to turn the map the other way and acknowledge that the pipeline could run back the other way. They have no idea that more power would be needed to bring water from the Kimberley by pipeline than will be required to run the desalination plant in Kwinana. That is how out of touch members opposite are with the reality of producing water. Mr T. Buswell interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, member for Vasse! Mr J.C. KOBELKE : One can understand why members opposite take issue with the fact that the plant is being driven by wind power. Clearly, they have no idea how water can be provided to the people of Western Australia; nor do they have any idea how to do so in an environmentally acceptable way. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the members for Cottesloe and Darling Range to order. Mr J.C. KOBELKE : The Kwinana desalination plant on the shore of Cockburn Sound is the third largest operating plant of its kind in the world. When it becomes fully operational in about two months, it will produce an average of 130 million litres of drinking water a day. Further, it will supply 17 per cent of Perth’s current water supply needs. The plant, and its associated infrastructure, is a marvellous engineering achievement. The hundreds of people involved in the project worked under severe time constraints to produce a world-class facility in just under two years. The project has been delivered on time and on budget. This is a remarkable achievement given the current competition for skilled resources in WA’s buoyant economy. I congratulate Dr Jim Gill and his Water Corporation project team, and the Multiplex Degremont Joint Venture, which worked with the corporation to build this innovative plant. The desalination plant has been the subject of the most rigorous environmental approval procedure ever imposed on a Water Corporation project. The strict monitoring criteria that have been set include the measurement of the concentration of discharge into Cockburn Sound to ensure that the plant does not have a detrimental effect. In turn, the Water Corporation has responded to the approval conditions by establishing the most intensive ocean monitoring program of any desalination plant in the world to gauge the impact on marine life and water quality in the sound. A desalination plant alone is not sufficient to secure our water supplies. We are continuing with the security through diversity program. This is a fantastic additional source of water for the people of Western Australia. It is incredible that although the rest of Australia acknowledges that Western Australia is a leader in this field, the Western Australian opposition continues to bag WA. The mob opposite can never represent the interests of Western Australia. People right across Australia - from the Parliamentary Secretary to the Prime Minister down - are looking to WA’s lead and saying what a good job we have done. However, those opposite continue to bag Western Australia because they do not represent the people of Western Australia. Indeed, they have no understanding of how to do so.
I thank the member for her question. Sunday was a historic day for our state and our nation when the Premier opened Australia’s first large-scale seawater desalination plant at Kwinana. Western Australia became the first state in the commonwealth to use rainfall-independent desalination as a major public water source. Pure drinking water filtered from Indian Ocean sea water is now circulating in Perth’s water supply network and is blending with our traditional ground water and surface water sources. This is the largest desalination plant in the world powered by renewable energy. The plant’s energy source is the new Emu Downs Wind Farm, which is some 200 kilometres - Mr C.J. Barnett interjected. Withdrawal of Remark Mr A.J. CARPENTER : The member for Cottesloe accused the Minister for Water Resources of telling a lie to Parliament. The SPEAKER : I did not hear him say that. If the member for Cottesloe uttered those words, he knows that they are unparliamentary and that they should be withdrawn. Mr C.J. BARNETT : I said that it is a lie to say that the plant is powered by renewable energy. If that is offensive to Parliament, I withdraw. Questions without Notice Resumed Mr J.C. KOBELKE : I repeat: the desalination plant’s energy source is the new Emu Downs Wind Farm. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! I call the member for Darling Range to order for the second time. Mr J.C. KOBELKE : The desalination plant is powered by energy from the Emu Downs Wind Farm. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! I call the member for Cottesloe to order for the first time. Mr J.C. KOBELKE : The ridiculous statements coming from the opposition are in line with its view - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! I call the members for Nedlands and Greenough to order. Mr J.C. KOBELKE : The opposition’s comments are keeping with the view that it took to the last election that, because when one holds a map, Kununurra is north of Perth, water could run down a pipeline to Perth. They did not think to turn the map the other way and acknowledge that the pipeline could run back the other way. They have no idea that more power would be needed to bring water from the Kimberley by pipeline than will be required to run the desalination plant in Kwinana. That is how out of touch members opposite are with the reality of producing water. Mr T. Buswell interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, member for Vasse! Mr J.C. KOBELKE : One can understand why members opposite take issue with the fact that the plant is being driven by wind power. Clearly, they have no idea how water can be provided to the people of Western Australia; nor do they have any idea how to do so in an environmentally acceptable way. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the members for Cottesloe and Darling Range to order. Mr J.C. KOBELKE : The Kwinana desalination plant on the shore of Cockburn Sound is the third largest operating plant of its kind in the world. When it becomes fully operational in about two months, it will produce an average of 130 million litres of drinking water a day. Further, it will supply 17 per cent of Perth’s current water supply needs. The plant, and its associated infrastructure, is a marvellous engineering achievement. The hundreds of people involved in the project worked under severe time constraints to produce a world-class facility in just under two years. The project has been delivered on time and on budget. This is a remarkable achievement given the current competition for skilled resources in WA’s buoyant economy. I congratulate Dr Jim Gill and his Water Corporation project team, and the Multiplex Degremont Joint Venture, which worked with the corporation to build this innovative plant. The desalination plant has been the subject of the most rigorous environmental approval procedure ever imposed on a Water Corporation project. The strict monitoring criteria that have been set include the measurement of the concentration of discharge into Cockburn Sound to ensure that the plant does not have a detrimental effect. In turn, the Water Corporation has responded to the approval conditions by establishing the most intensive ocean monitoring program of any desalination plant in the world to gauge the impact on marine life and water quality in the sound. A desalination plant alone is not sufficient to secure our water supplies. We are continuing with the security through diversity program. This is a fantastic additional source of water for the people of Western Australia. It is incredible that although the rest of Australia acknowledges that Western Australia is a leader in this field, the Western Australian opposition continues to bag WA. The mob opposite can never represent the interests of Western Australia. People right across Australia - from the Parliamentary Secretary to the Prime Minister down - are looking to WA’s lead and saying what a good job we have done. However, those opposite continue to bag Western Australia because they do not represent the people of Western Australia. Indeed, they have no understanding of how to do so.
Mr C.J. Barnett interjected. Withdrawal of Remark Mr A.J. CARPENTER : The member for Cottesloe accused the Minister for Water Resources of telling a lie to Parliament. The SPEAKER : I did not hear him say that. If the member for Cottesloe uttered those words, he knows that they are unparliamentary and that they should be withdrawn. Mr C.J. BARNETT : I said that it is a lie to say that the plant is powered by renewable energy. If that is offensive to Parliament, I withdraw. Questions without Notice Resumed Mr J.C. KOBELKE : I repeat: the desalination plant’s energy source is the new Emu Downs Wind Farm. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! I call the member for Darling Range to order for the second time. Mr J.C. KOBELKE : The desalination plant is powered by energy from the Emu Downs Wind Farm. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! I call the member for Cottesloe to order for the first time. Mr J.C. KOBELKE : The ridiculous statements coming from the opposition are in line with its view - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! I call the members for Nedlands and Greenough to order. Mr J.C. KOBELKE : The opposition’s comments are keeping with the view that it took to the last election that, because when one holds a map, Kununurra is north of Perth, water could run down a pipeline to Perth. They did not think to turn the map the other way and acknowledge that the pipeline could run back the other way. They have no idea that more power would be needed to bring water from the Kimberley by pipeline than will be required to run the desalination plant in Kwinana. That is how out of touch members opposite are with the reality of producing water. Mr T. Buswell interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, member for Vasse! Mr J.C. KOBELKE : One can understand why members opposite take issue with the fact that the plant is being driven by wind power. Clearly, they have no idea how water can be provided to the people of Western Australia; nor do they have any idea how to do so in an environmentally acceptable way. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the members for Cottesloe and Darling Range to order. Mr J.C. KOBELKE : The Kwinana desalination plant on the shore of Cockburn Sound is the third largest operating plant of its kind in the world. When it becomes fully operational in about two months, it will produce an average of 130 million litres of drinking water a day. Further, it will supply 17 per cent of Perth’s current water supply needs. The plant, and its associated infrastructure, is a marvellous engineering achievement. The hundreds of people involved in the project worked under severe time constraints to produce a world-class facility in just under two years. The project has been delivered on time and on budget. This is a remarkable achievement given the current competition for skilled resources in WA’s buoyant economy. I congratulate Dr Jim Gill and his Water Corporation project team, and the Multiplex Degremont Joint Venture, which worked with the corporation to build this innovative plant. The desalination plant has been the subject of the most rigorous environmental approval procedure ever imposed on a Water Corporation project. The strict monitoring criteria that have been set include the measurement of the concentration of discharge into Cockburn Sound to ensure that the plant does not have a detrimental effect. In turn, the Water Corporation has responded to the approval conditions by establishing the most intensive ocean monitoring program of any desalination plant in the world to gauge the impact on marine life and water quality in the sound. A desalination plant alone is not sufficient to secure our water supplies. We are continuing with the security through diversity program. This is a fantastic additional source of water for the people of Western Australia. It is incredible that although the rest of Australia acknowledges that Western Australia is a leader in this field, the Western Australian opposition continues to bag WA. The mob opposite can never represent the interests of Western Australia. People right across Australia - from the Parliamentary Secretary to the Prime Minister down - are looking to WA’s lead and saying what a good job we have done. However, those opposite continue to bag Western Australia because they do not represent the people of Western Australia. Indeed, they have no understanding of how to do so.
The SPEAKER : I did not hear him say that. If the member for Cottesloe uttered those words, he knows that they are unparliamentary and that they should be withdrawn. Mr C.J. BARNETT : I said that it is a lie to say that the plant is powered by renewable energy. If that is offensive to Parliament, I withdraw. Questions without Notice Resumed Mr J.C. KOBELKE : I repeat: the desalination plant’s energy source is the new Emu Downs Wind Farm. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! I call the member for Darling Range to order for the second time. Mr J.C. KOBELKE : The desalination plant is powered by energy from the Emu Downs Wind Farm. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! I call the member for Cottesloe to order for the first time. Mr J.C. KOBELKE : The ridiculous statements coming from the opposition are in line with its view - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! I call the members for Nedlands and Greenough to order. Mr J.C. KOBELKE : The opposition’s comments are keeping with the view that it took to the last election that, because when one holds a map, Kununurra is north of Perth, water could run down a pipeline to Perth. They did not think to turn the map the other way and acknowledge that the pipeline could run back the other way. They have no idea that more power would be needed to bring water from the Kimberley by pipeline than will be required to run the desalination plant in Kwinana. That is how out of touch members opposite are with the reality of producing water. Mr T. Buswell interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, member for Vasse! Mr J.C. KOBELKE : One can understand why members opposite take issue with the fact that the plant is being driven by wind power. Clearly, they have no idea how water can be provided to the people of Western Australia; nor do they have any idea how to do so in an environmentally acceptable way. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the members for Cottesloe and Darling Range to order. Mr J.C. KOBELKE : The Kwinana desalination plant on the shore of Cockburn Sound is the third largest operating plant of its kind in the world. When it becomes fully operational in about two months, it will produce an average of 130 million litres of drinking water a day. Further, it will supply 17 per cent of Perth’s current water supply needs. The plant, and its associated infrastructure, is a marvellous engineering achievement. The hundreds of people involved in the project worked under severe time constraints to produce a world-class facility in just under two years. The project has been delivered on time and on budget. This is a remarkable achievement given the current competition for skilled resources in WA’s buoyant economy. I congratulate Dr Jim Gill and his Water Corporation project team, and the Multiplex Degremont Joint Venture, which worked with the corporation to build this innovative plant. The desalination plant has been the subject of the most rigorous environmental approval procedure ever imposed on a Water Corporation project. The strict monitoring criteria that have been set include the measurement of the concentration of discharge into Cockburn Sound to ensure that the plant does not have a detrimental effect. In turn, the Water Corporation has responded to the approval conditions by establishing the most intensive ocean monitoring program of any desalination plant in the world to gauge the impact on marine life and water quality in the sound. A desalination plant alone is not sufficient to secure our water supplies. We are continuing with the security through diversity program. This is a fantastic additional source of water for the people of Western Australia. It is incredible that although the rest of Australia acknowledges that Western Australia is a leader in this field, the Western Australian opposition continues to bag WA. The mob opposite can never represent the interests of Western Australia. People right across Australia - from the Parliamentary Secretary to the Prime Minister down - are looking to WA’s lead and saying what a good job we have done. However, those opposite continue to bag Western Australia because they do not represent the people of Western Australia. Indeed, they have no understanding of how to do so.
Mr C.J. BARNETT : I said that it is a lie to say that the plant is powered by renewable energy. If that is offensive to Parliament, I withdraw. Questions without Notice Resumed Mr J.C. KOBELKE : I repeat: the desalination plant’s energy source is the new Emu Downs Wind Farm. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! I call the member for Darling Range to order for the second time. Mr J.C. KOBELKE : The desalination plant is powered by energy from the Emu Downs Wind Farm. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! I call the member for Cottesloe to order for the first time. Mr J.C. KOBELKE : The ridiculous statements coming from the opposition are in line with its view - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! I call the members for Nedlands and Greenough to order. Mr J.C. KOBELKE : The opposition’s comments are keeping with the view that it took to the last election that, because when one holds a map, Kununurra is north of Perth, water could run down a pipeline to Perth. They did not think to turn the map the other way and acknowledge that the pipeline could run back the other way. They have no idea that more power would be needed to bring water from the Kimberley by pipeline than will be required to run the desalination plant in Kwinana. That is how out of touch members opposite are with the reality of producing water. Mr T. Buswell interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, member for Vasse! Mr J.C. KOBELKE : One can understand why members opposite take issue with the fact that the plant is being driven by wind power. Clearly, they have no idea how water can be provided to the people of Western Australia; nor do they have any idea how to do so in an environmentally acceptable way. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the members for Cottesloe and Darling Range to order. Mr J.C. KOBELKE : The Kwinana desalination plant on the shore of Cockburn Sound is the third largest operating plant of its kind in the world. When it becomes fully operational in about two months, it will produce an average of 130 million litres of drinking water a day. Further, it will supply 17 per cent of Perth’s current water supply needs. The plant, and its associated infrastructure, is a marvellous engineering achievement. The hundreds of people involved in the project worked under severe time constraints to produce a world-class facility in just under two years. The project has been delivered on time and on budget. This is a remarkable achievement given the current competition for skilled resources in WA’s buoyant economy. I congratulate Dr Jim Gill and his Water Corporation project team, and the Multiplex Degremont Joint Venture, which worked with the corporation to build this innovative plant. The desalination plant has been the subject of the most rigorous environmental approval procedure ever imposed on a Water Corporation project. The strict monitoring criteria that have been set include the measurement of the concentration of discharge into Cockburn Sound to ensure that the plant does not have a detrimental effect. In turn, the Water Corporation has responded to the approval conditions by establishing the most intensive ocean monitoring program of any desalination plant in the world to gauge the impact on marine life and water quality in the sound. A desalination plant alone is not sufficient to secure our water supplies. We are continuing with the security through diversity program. This is a fantastic additional source of water for the people of Western Australia. It is incredible that although the rest of Australia acknowledges that Western Australia is a leader in this field, the Western Australian opposition continues to bag WA. The mob opposite can never represent the interests of Western Australia. People right across Australia - from the Parliamentary Secretary to the Prime Minister down - are looking to WA’s lead and saying what a good job we have done. However, those opposite continue to bag Western Australia because they do not represent the people of Western Australia. Indeed, they have no understanding of how to do so.
Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! I call the member for Darling Range to order for the second time. Mr J.C. KOBELKE : The desalination plant is powered by energy from the Emu Downs Wind Farm. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! I call the member for Cottesloe to order for the first time. Mr J.C. KOBELKE : The ridiculous statements coming from the opposition are in line with its view - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! I call the members for Nedlands and Greenough to order. Mr J.C. KOBELKE : The opposition’s comments are keeping with the view that it took to the last election that, because when one holds a map, Kununurra is north of Perth, water could run down a pipeline to Perth. They did not think to turn the map the other way and acknowledge that the pipeline could run back the other way. They have no idea that more power would be needed to bring water from the Kimberley by pipeline than will be required to run the desalination plant in Kwinana. That is how out of touch members opposite are with the reality of producing water. Mr T. Buswell interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, member for Vasse! Mr J.C. KOBELKE : One can understand why members opposite take issue with the fact that the plant is being driven by wind power. Clearly, they have no idea how water can be provided to the people of Western Australia; nor do they have any idea how to do so in an environmentally acceptable way. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the members for Cottesloe and Darling Range to order. Mr J.C. KOBELKE : The Kwinana desalination plant on the shore of Cockburn Sound is the third largest operating plant of its kind in the world. When it becomes fully operational in about two months, it will produce an average of 130 million litres of drinking water a day. Further, it will supply 17 per cent of Perth’s current water supply needs. The plant, and its associated infrastructure, is a marvellous engineering achievement. The hundreds of people involved in the project worked under severe time constraints to produce a world-class facility in just under two years. The project has been delivered on time and on budget. This is a remarkable achievement given the current competition for skilled resources in WA’s buoyant economy. I congratulate Dr Jim Gill and his Water Corporation project team, and the Multiplex Degremont Joint Venture, which worked with the corporation to build this innovative plant. The desalination plant has been the subject of the most rigorous environmental approval procedure ever imposed on a Water Corporation project. The strict monitoring criteria that have been set include the measurement of the concentration of discharge into Cockburn Sound to ensure that the plant does not have a detrimental effect. In turn, the Water Corporation has responded to the approval conditions by establishing the most intensive ocean monitoring program of any desalination plant in the world to gauge the impact on marine life and water quality in the sound. A desalination plant alone is not sufficient to secure our water supplies. We are continuing with the security through diversity program. This is a fantastic additional source of water for the people of Western Australia. It is incredible that although the rest of Australia acknowledges that Western Australia is a leader in this field, the Western Australian opposition continues to bag WA. The mob opposite can never represent the interests of Western Australia. People right across Australia - from the Parliamentary Secretary to the Prime Minister down - are looking to WA’s lead and saying what a good job we have done. However, those opposite continue to bag Western Australia because they do not represent the people of Western Australia. Indeed, they have no understanding of how to do so.
The SPEAKER : Order, members! I call the member for Darling Range to order for the second time. Mr J.C. KOBELKE : The desalination plant is powered by energy from the Emu Downs Wind Farm. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! I call the member for Cottesloe to order for the first time. Mr J.C. KOBELKE : The ridiculous statements coming from the opposition are in line with its view - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! I call the members for Nedlands and Greenough to order. Mr J.C. KOBELKE : The opposition’s comments are keeping with the view that it took to the last election that, because when one holds a map, Kununurra is north of Perth, water could run down a pipeline to Perth. They did not think to turn the map the other way and acknowledge that the pipeline could run back the other way. They have no idea that more power would be needed to bring water from the Kimberley by pipeline than will be required to run the desalination plant in Kwinana. That is how out of touch members opposite are with the reality of producing water. Mr T. Buswell interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, member for Vasse! Mr J.C. KOBELKE : One can understand why members opposite take issue with the fact that the plant is being driven by wind power. Clearly, they have no idea how water can be provided to the people of Western Australia; nor do they have any idea how to do so in an environmentally acceptable way. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the members for Cottesloe and Darling Range to order. Mr J.C. KOBELKE : The Kwinana desalination plant on the shore of Cockburn Sound is the third largest operating plant of its kind in the world. When it becomes fully operational in about two months, it will produce an average of 130 million litres of drinking water a day. Further, it will supply 17 per cent of Perth’s current water supply needs. The plant, and its associated infrastructure, is a marvellous engineering achievement. The hundreds of people involved in the project worked under severe time constraints to produce a world-class facility in just under two years. The project has been delivered on time and on budget. This is a remarkable achievement given the current competition for skilled resources in WA’s buoyant economy. I congratulate Dr Jim Gill and his Water Corporation project team, and the Multiplex Degremont Joint Venture, which worked with the corporation to build this innovative plant. The desalination plant has been the subject of the most rigorous environmental approval procedure ever imposed on a Water Corporation project. The strict monitoring criteria that have been set include the measurement of the concentration of discharge into Cockburn Sound to ensure that the plant does not have a detrimental effect. In turn, the Water Corporation has responded to the approval conditions by establishing the most intensive ocean monitoring program of any desalination plant in the world to gauge the impact on marine life and water quality in the sound. A desalination plant alone is not sufficient to secure our water supplies. We are continuing with the security through diversity program. This is a fantastic additional source of water for the people of Western Australia. It is incredible that although the rest of Australia acknowledges that Western Australia is a leader in this field, the Western Australian opposition continues to bag WA. The mob opposite can never represent the interests of Western Australia. People right across Australia - from the Parliamentary Secretary to the Prime Minister down - are looking to WA’s lead and saying what a good job we have done. However, those opposite continue to bag Western Australia because they do not represent the people of Western Australia. Indeed, they have no understanding of how to do so.
Mr J.C. KOBELKE : The desalination plant is powered by energy from the Emu Downs Wind Farm. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! I call the member for Cottesloe to order for the first time. Mr J.C. KOBELKE : The ridiculous statements coming from the opposition are in line with its view - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! I call the members for Nedlands and Greenough to order. Mr J.C. KOBELKE : The opposition’s comments are keeping with the view that it took to the last election that, because when one holds a map, Kununurra is north of Perth, water could run down a pipeline to Perth. They did not think to turn the map the other way and acknowledge that the pipeline could run back the other way. They have no idea that more power would be needed to bring water from the Kimberley by pipeline than will be required to run the desalination plant in Kwinana. That is how out of touch members opposite are with the reality of producing water. Mr T. Buswell interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, member for Vasse! Mr J.C. KOBELKE : One can understand why members opposite take issue with the fact that the plant is being driven by wind power. Clearly, they have no idea how water can be provided to the people of Western Australia; nor do they have any idea how to do so in an environmentally acceptable way. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the members for Cottesloe and Darling Range to order. Mr J.C. KOBELKE : The Kwinana desalination plant on the shore of Cockburn Sound is the third largest operating plant of its kind in the world. When it becomes fully operational in about two months, it will produce an average of 130 million litres of drinking water a day. Further, it will supply 17 per cent of Perth’s current water supply needs. The plant, and its associated infrastructure, is a marvellous engineering achievement. The hundreds of people involved in the project worked under severe time constraints to produce a world-class facility in just under two years. The project has been delivered on time and on budget. This is a remarkable achievement given the current competition for skilled resources in WA’s buoyant economy. I congratulate Dr Jim Gill and his Water Corporation project team, and the Multiplex Degremont Joint Venture, which worked with the corporation to build this innovative plant. The desalination plant has been the subject of the most rigorous environmental approval procedure ever imposed on a Water Corporation project. The strict monitoring criteria that have been set include the measurement of the concentration of discharge into Cockburn Sound to ensure that the plant does not have a detrimental effect. In turn, the Water Corporation has responded to the approval conditions by establishing the most intensive ocean monitoring program of any desalination plant in the world to gauge the impact on marine life and water quality in the sound. A desalination plant alone is not sufficient to secure our water supplies. We are continuing with the security through diversity program. This is a fantastic additional source of water for the people of Western Australia. It is incredible that although the rest of Australia acknowledges that Western Australia is a leader in this field, the Western Australian opposition continues to bag WA. The mob opposite can never represent the interests of Western Australia. People right across Australia - from the Parliamentary Secretary to the Prime Minister down - are looking to WA’s lead and saying what a good job we have done. However, those opposite continue to bag Western Australia because they do not represent the people of Western Australia. Indeed, they have no understanding of how to do so.
Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! I call the member for Cottesloe to order for the first time. Mr J.C. KOBELKE : The ridiculous statements coming from the opposition are in line with its view - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! I call the members for Nedlands and Greenough to order. Mr J.C. KOBELKE : The opposition’s comments are keeping with the view that it took to the last election that, because when one holds a map, Kununurra is north of Perth, water could run down a pipeline to Perth. They did not think to turn the map the other way and acknowledge that the pipeline could run back the other way. They have no idea that more power would be needed to bring water from the Kimberley by pipeline than will be required to run the desalination plant in Kwinana. That is how out of touch members opposite are with the reality of producing water. Mr T. Buswell interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, member for Vasse! Mr J.C. KOBELKE : One can understand why members opposite take issue with the fact that the plant is being driven by wind power. Clearly, they have no idea how water can be provided to the people of Western Australia; nor do they have any idea how to do so in an environmentally acceptable way. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the members for Cottesloe and Darling Range to order. Mr J.C. KOBELKE : The Kwinana desalination plant on the shore of Cockburn Sound is the third largest operating plant of its kind in the world. When it becomes fully operational in about two months, it will produce an average of 130 million litres of drinking water a day. Further, it will supply 17 per cent of Perth’s current water supply needs. The plant, and its associated infrastructure, is a marvellous engineering achievement. The hundreds of people involved in the project worked under severe time constraints to produce a world-class facility in just under two years. The project has been delivered on time and on budget. This is a remarkable achievement given the current competition for skilled resources in WA’s buoyant economy. I congratulate Dr Jim Gill and his Water Corporation project team, and the Multiplex Degremont Joint Venture, which worked with the corporation to build this innovative plant. The desalination plant has been the subject of the most rigorous environmental approval procedure ever imposed on a Water Corporation project. The strict monitoring criteria that have been set include the measurement of the concentration of discharge into Cockburn Sound to ensure that the plant does not have a detrimental effect. In turn, the Water Corporation has responded to the approval conditions by establishing the most intensive ocean monitoring program of any desalination plant in the world to gauge the impact on marine life and water quality in the sound. A desalination plant alone is not sufficient to secure our water supplies. We are continuing with the security through diversity program. This is a fantastic additional source of water for the people of Western Australia. It is incredible that although the rest of Australia acknowledges that Western Australia is a leader in this field, the Western Australian opposition continues to bag WA. The mob opposite can never represent the interests of Western Australia. People right across Australia - from the Parliamentary Secretary to the Prime Minister down - are looking to WA’s lead and saying what a good job we have done. However, those opposite continue to bag Western Australia because they do not represent the people of Western Australia. Indeed, they have no understanding of how to do so.
The SPEAKER : Order, members! I call the member for Cottesloe to order for the first time. Mr J.C. KOBELKE : The ridiculous statements coming from the opposition are in line with its view - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! I call the members for Nedlands and Greenough to order. Mr J.C. KOBELKE : The opposition’s comments are keeping with the view that it took to the last election that, because when one holds a map, Kununurra is north of Perth, water could run down a pipeline to Perth. They did not think to turn the map the other way and acknowledge that the pipeline could run back the other way. They have no idea that more power would be needed to bring water from the Kimberley by pipeline than will be required to run the desalination plant in Kwinana. That is how out of touch members opposite are with the reality of producing water. Mr T. Buswell interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, member for Vasse! Mr J.C. KOBELKE : One can understand why members opposite take issue with the fact that the plant is being driven by wind power. Clearly, they have no idea how water can be provided to the people of Western Australia; nor do they have any idea how to do so in an environmentally acceptable way. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the members for Cottesloe and Darling Range to order. Mr J.C. KOBELKE : The Kwinana desalination plant on the shore of Cockburn Sound is the third largest operating plant of its kind in the world. When it becomes fully operational in about two months, it will produce an average of 130 million litres of drinking water a day. Further, it will supply 17 per cent of Perth’s current water supply needs. The plant, and its associated infrastructure, is a marvellous engineering achievement. The hundreds of people involved in the project worked under severe time constraints to produce a world-class facility in just under two years. The project has been delivered on time and on budget. This is a remarkable achievement given the current competition for skilled resources in WA’s buoyant economy. I congratulate Dr Jim Gill and his Water Corporation project team, and the Multiplex Degremont Joint Venture, which worked with the corporation to build this innovative plant. The desalination plant has been the subject of the most rigorous environmental approval procedure ever imposed on a Water Corporation project. The strict monitoring criteria that have been set include the measurement of the concentration of discharge into Cockburn Sound to ensure that the plant does not have a detrimental effect. In turn, the Water Corporation has responded to the approval conditions by establishing the most intensive ocean monitoring program of any desalination plant in the world to gauge the impact on marine life and water quality in the sound. A desalination plant alone is not sufficient to secure our water supplies. We are continuing with the security through diversity program. This is a fantastic additional source of water for the people of Western Australia. It is incredible that although the rest of Australia acknowledges that Western Australia is a leader in this field, the Western Australian opposition continues to bag WA. The mob opposite can never represent the interests of Western Australia. People right across Australia - from the Parliamentary Secretary to the Prime Minister down - are looking to WA’s lead and saying what a good job we have done. However, those opposite continue to bag Western Australia because they do not represent the people of Western Australia. Indeed, they have no understanding of how to do so.
Mr J.C. KOBELKE : The ridiculous statements coming from the opposition are in line with its view - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! I call the members for Nedlands and Greenough to order. Mr J.C. KOBELKE : The opposition’s comments are keeping with the view that it took to the last election that, because when one holds a map, Kununurra is north of Perth, water could run down a pipeline to Perth. They did not think to turn the map the other way and acknowledge that the pipeline could run back the other way. They have no idea that more power would be needed to bring water from the Kimberley by pipeline than will be required to run the desalination plant in Kwinana. That is how out of touch members opposite are with the reality of producing water. Mr T. Buswell interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, member for Vasse! Mr J.C. KOBELKE : One can understand why members opposite take issue with the fact that the plant is being driven by wind power. Clearly, they have no idea how water can be provided to the people of Western Australia; nor do they have any idea how to do so in an environmentally acceptable way. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the members for Cottesloe and Darling Range to order. Mr J.C. KOBELKE : The Kwinana desalination plant on the shore of Cockburn Sound is the third largest operating plant of its kind in the world. When it becomes fully operational in about two months, it will produce an average of 130 million litres of drinking water a day. Further, it will supply 17 per cent of Perth’s current water supply needs. The plant, and its associated infrastructure, is a marvellous engineering achievement. The hundreds of people involved in the project worked under severe time constraints to produce a world-class facility in just under two years. The project has been delivered on time and on budget. This is a remarkable achievement given the current competition for skilled resources in WA’s buoyant economy. I congratulate Dr Jim Gill and his Water Corporation project team, and the Multiplex Degremont Joint Venture, which worked with the corporation to build this innovative plant. The desalination plant has been the subject of the most rigorous environmental approval procedure ever imposed on a Water Corporation project. The strict monitoring criteria that have been set include the measurement of the concentration of discharge into Cockburn Sound to ensure that the plant does not have a detrimental effect. In turn, the Water Corporation has responded to the approval conditions by establishing the most intensive ocean monitoring program of any desalination plant in the world to gauge the impact on marine life and water quality in the sound. A desalination plant alone is not sufficient to secure our water supplies. We are continuing with the security through diversity program. This is a fantastic additional source of water for the people of Western Australia. It is incredible that although the rest of Australia acknowledges that Western Australia is a leader in this field, the Western Australian opposition continues to bag WA. The mob opposite can never represent the interests of Western Australia. People right across Australia - from the Parliamentary Secretary to the Prime Minister down - are looking to WA’s lead and saying what a good job we have done. However, those opposite continue to bag Western Australia because they do not represent the people of Western Australia. Indeed, they have no understanding of how to do so.
Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! I call the members for Nedlands and Greenough to order. Mr J.C. KOBELKE : The opposition’s comments are keeping with the view that it took to the last election that, because when one holds a map, Kununurra is north of Perth, water could run down a pipeline to Perth. They did not think to turn the map the other way and acknowledge that the pipeline could run back the other way. They have no idea that more power would be needed to bring water from the Kimberley by pipeline than will be required to run the desalination plant in Kwinana. That is how out of touch members opposite are with the reality of producing water. Mr T. Buswell interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, member for Vasse! Mr J.C. KOBELKE : One can understand why members opposite take issue with the fact that the plant is being driven by wind power. Clearly, they have no idea how water can be provided to the people of Western Australia; nor do they have any idea how to do so in an environmentally acceptable way. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the members for Cottesloe and Darling Range to order. Mr J.C. KOBELKE : The Kwinana desalination plant on the shore of Cockburn Sound is the third largest operating plant of its kind in the world. When it becomes fully operational in about two months, it will produce an average of 130 million litres of drinking water a day. Further, it will supply 17 per cent of Perth’s current water supply needs. The plant, and its associated infrastructure, is a marvellous engineering achievement. The hundreds of people involved in the project worked under severe time constraints to produce a world-class facility in just under two years. The project has been delivered on time and on budget. This is a remarkable achievement given the current competition for skilled resources in WA’s buoyant economy. I congratulate Dr Jim Gill and his Water Corporation project team, and the Multiplex Degremont Joint Venture, which worked with the corporation to build this innovative plant. The desalination plant has been the subject of the most rigorous environmental approval procedure ever imposed on a Water Corporation project. The strict monitoring criteria that have been set include the measurement of the concentration of discharge into Cockburn Sound to ensure that the plant does not have a detrimental effect. In turn, the Water Corporation has responded to the approval conditions by establishing the most intensive ocean monitoring program of any desalination plant in the world to gauge the impact on marine life and water quality in the sound. A desalination plant alone is not sufficient to secure our water supplies. We are continuing with the security through diversity program. This is a fantastic additional source of water for the people of Western Australia. It is incredible that although the rest of Australia acknowledges that Western Australia is a leader in this field, the Western Australian opposition continues to bag WA. The mob opposite can never represent the interests of Western Australia. People right across Australia - from the Parliamentary Secretary to the Prime Minister down - are looking to WA’s lead and saying what a good job we have done. However, those opposite continue to bag Western Australia because they do not represent the people of Western Australia. Indeed, they have no understanding of how to do so.
The SPEAKER : Order, members! I call the members for Nedlands and Greenough to order. Mr J.C. KOBELKE : The opposition’s comments are keeping with the view that it took to the last election that, because when one holds a map, Kununurra is north of Perth, water could run down a pipeline to Perth. They did not think to turn the map the other way and acknowledge that the pipeline could run back the other way. They have no idea that more power would be needed to bring water from the Kimberley by pipeline than will be required to run the desalination plant in Kwinana. That is how out of touch members opposite are with the reality of producing water. Mr T. Buswell interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, member for Vasse! Mr J.C. KOBELKE : One can understand why members opposite take issue with the fact that the plant is being driven by wind power. Clearly, they have no idea how water can be provided to the people of Western Australia; nor do they have any idea how to do so in an environmentally acceptable way. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the members for Cottesloe and Darling Range to order. Mr J.C. KOBELKE : The Kwinana desalination plant on the shore of Cockburn Sound is the third largest operating plant of its kind in the world. When it becomes fully operational in about two months, it will produce an average of 130 million litres of drinking water a day. Further, it will supply 17 per cent of Perth’s current water supply needs. The plant, and its associated infrastructure, is a marvellous engineering achievement. The hundreds of people involved in the project worked under severe time constraints to produce a world-class facility in just under two years. The project has been delivered on time and on budget. This is a remarkable achievement given the current competition for skilled resources in WA’s buoyant economy. I congratulate Dr Jim Gill and his Water Corporation project team, and the Multiplex Degremont Joint Venture, which worked with the corporation to build this innovative plant. The desalination plant has been the subject of the most rigorous environmental approval procedure ever imposed on a Water Corporation project. The strict monitoring criteria that have been set include the measurement of the concentration of discharge into Cockburn Sound to ensure that the plant does not have a detrimental effect. In turn, the Water Corporation has responded to the approval conditions by establishing the most intensive ocean monitoring program of any desalination plant in the world to gauge the impact on marine life and water quality in the sound. A desalination plant alone is not sufficient to secure our water supplies. We are continuing with the security through diversity program. This is a fantastic additional source of water for the people of Western Australia. It is incredible that although the rest of Australia acknowledges that Western Australia is a leader in this field, the Western Australian opposition continues to bag WA. The mob opposite can never represent the interests of Western Australia. People right across Australia - from the Parliamentary Secretary to the Prime Minister down - are looking to WA’s lead and saying what a good job we have done. However, those opposite continue to bag Western Australia because they do not represent the people of Western Australia. Indeed, they have no understanding of how to do so.
Mr J.C. KOBELKE : The opposition’s comments are keeping with the view that it took to the last election that, because when one holds a map, Kununurra is north of Perth, water could run down a pipeline to Perth. They did not think to turn the map the other way and acknowledge that the pipeline could run back the other way. They have no idea that more power would be needed to bring water from the Kimberley by pipeline than will be required to run the desalination plant in Kwinana. That is how out of touch members opposite are with the reality of producing water. Mr T. Buswell interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, member for Vasse! Mr J.C. KOBELKE : One can understand why members opposite take issue with the fact that the plant is being driven by wind power. Clearly, they have no idea how water can be provided to the people of Western Australia; nor do they have any idea how to do so in an environmentally acceptable way. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the members for Cottesloe and Darling Range to order. Mr J.C. KOBELKE : The Kwinana desalination plant on the shore of Cockburn Sound is the third largest operating plant of its kind in the world. When it becomes fully operational in about two months, it will produce an average of 130 million litres of drinking water a day. Further, it will supply 17 per cent of Perth’s current water supply needs. The plant, and its associated infrastructure, is a marvellous engineering achievement. The hundreds of people involved in the project worked under severe time constraints to produce a world-class facility in just under two years. The project has been delivered on time and on budget. This is a remarkable achievement given the current competition for skilled resources in WA’s buoyant economy. I congratulate Dr Jim Gill and his Water Corporation project team, and the Multiplex Degremont Joint Venture, which worked with the corporation to build this innovative plant. The desalination plant has been the subject of the most rigorous environmental approval procedure ever imposed on a Water Corporation project. The strict monitoring criteria that have been set include the measurement of the concentration of discharge into Cockburn Sound to ensure that the plant does not have a detrimental effect. In turn, the Water Corporation has responded to the approval conditions by establishing the most intensive ocean monitoring program of any desalination plant in the world to gauge the impact on marine life and water quality in the sound. A desalination plant alone is not sufficient to secure our water supplies. We are continuing with the security through diversity program. This is a fantastic additional source of water for the people of Western Australia. It is incredible that although the rest of Australia acknowledges that Western Australia is a leader in this field, the Western Australian opposition continues to bag WA. The mob opposite can never represent the interests of Western Australia. People right across Australia - from the Parliamentary Secretary to the Prime Minister down - are looking to WA’s lead and saying what a good job we have done. However, those opposite continue to bag Western Australia because they do not represent the people of Western Australia. Indeed, they have no understanding of how to do so.
Mr T. Buswell interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, member for Vasse! Mr J.C. KOBELKE : One can understand why members opposite take issue with the fact that the plant is being driven by wind power. Clearly, they have no idea how water can be provided to the people of Western Australia; nor do they have any idea how to do so in an environmentally acceptable way. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the members for Cottesloe and Darling Range to order. Mr J.C. KOBELKE : The Kwinana desalination plant on the shore of Cockburn Sound is the third largest operating plant of its kind in the world. When it becomes fully operational in about two months, it will produce an average of 130 million litres of drinking water a day. Further, it will supply 17 per cent of Perth’s current water supply needs. The plant, and its associated infrastructure, is a marvellous engineering achievement. The hundreds of people involved in the project worked under severe time constraints to produce a world-class facility in just under two years. The project has been delivered on time and on budget. This is a remarkable achievement given the current competition for skilled resources in WA’s buoyant economy. I congratulate Dr Jim Gill and his Water Corporation project team, and the Multiplex Degremont Joint Venture, which worked with the corporation to build this innovative plant. The desalination plant has been the subject of the most rigorous environmental approval procedure ever imposed on a Water Corporation project. The strict monitoring criteria that have been set include the measurement of the concentration of discharge into Cockburn Sound to ensure that the plant does not have a detrimental effect. In turn, the Water Corporation has responded to the approval conditions by establishing the most intensive ocean monitoring program of any desalination plant in the world to gauge the impact on marine life and water quality in the sound. A desalination plant alone is not sufficient to secure our water supplies. We are continuing with the security through diversity program. This is a fantastic additional source of water for the people of Western Australia. It is incredible that although the rest of Australia acknowledges that Western Australia is a leader in this field, the Western Australian opposition continues to bag WA. The mob opposite can never represent the interests of Western Australia. People right across Australia - from the Parliamentary Secretary to the Prime Minister down - are looking to WA’s lead and saying what a good job we have done. However, those opposite continue to bag Western Australia because they do not represent the people of Western Australia. Indeed, they have no understanding of how to do so.
The SPEAKER : Order, member for Vasse! Mr J.C. KOBELKE : One can understand why members opposite take issue with the fact that the plant is being driven by wind power. Clearly, they have no idea how water can be provided to the people of Western Australia; nor do they have any idea how to do so in an environmentally acceptable way. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the members for Cottesloe and Darling Range to order. Mr J.C. KOBELKE : The Kwinana desalination plant on the shore of Cockburn Sound is the third largest operating plant of its kind in the world. When it becomes fully operational in about two months, it will produce an average of 130 million litres of drinking water a day. Further, it will supply 17 per cent of Perth’s current water supply needs. The plant, and its associated infrastructure, is a marvellous engineering achievement. The hundreds of people involved in the project worked under severe time constraints to produce a world-class facility in just under two years. The project has been delivered on time and on budget. This is a remarkable achievement given the current competition for skilled resources in WA’s buoyant economy. I congratulate Dr Jim Gill and his Water Corporation project team, and the Multiplex Degremont Joint Venture, which worked with the corporation to build this innovative plant. The desalination plant has been the subject of the most rigorous environmental approval procedure ever imposed on a Water Corporation project. The strict monitoring criteria that have been set include the measurement of the concentration of discharge into Cockburn Sound to ensure that the plant does not have a detrimental effect. In turn, the Water Corporation has responded to the approval conditions by establishing the most intensive ocean monitoring program of any desalination plant in the world to gauge the impact on marine life and water quality in the sound. A desalination plant alone is not sufficient to secure our water supplies. We are continuing with the security through diversity program. This is a fantastic additional source of water for the people of Western Australia. It is incredible that although the rest of Australia acknowledges that Western Australia is a leader in this field, the Western Australian opposition continues to bag WA. The mob opposite can never represent the interests of Western Australia. People right across Australia - from the Parliamentary Secretary to the Prime Minister down - are looking to WA’s lead and saying what a good job we have done. However, those opposite continue to bag Western Australia because they do not represent the people of Western Australia. Indeed, they have no understanding of how to do so.
Mr J.C. KOBELKE : One can understand why members opposite take issue with the fact that the plant is being driven by wind power. Clearly, they have no idea how water can be provided to the people of Western Australia; nor do they have any idea how to do so in an environmentally acceptable way. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the members for Cottesloe and Darling Range to order. Mr J.C. KOBELKE : The Kwinana desalination plant on the shore of Cockburn Sound is the third largest operating plant of its kind in the world. When it becomes fully operational in about two months, it will produce an average of 130 million litres of drinking water a day. Further, it will supply 17 per cent of Perth’s current water supply needs. The plant, and its associated infrastructure, is a marvellous engineering achievement. The hundreds of people involved in the project worked under severe time constraints to produce a world-class facility in just under two years. The project has been delivered on time and on budget. This is a remarkable achievement given the current competition for skilled resources in WA’s buoyant economy. I congratulate Dr Jim Gill and his Water Corporation project team, and the Multiplex Degremont Joint Venture, which worked with the corporation to build this innovative plant. The desalination plant has been the subject of the most rigorous environmental approval procedure ever imposed on a Water Corporation project. The strict monitoring criteria that have been set include the measurement of the concentration of discharge into Cockburn Sound to ensure that the plant does not have a detrimental effect. In turn, the Water Corporation has responded to the approval conditions by establishing the most intensive ocean monitoring program of any desalination plant in the world to gauge the impact on marine life and water quality in the sound. A desalination plant alone is not sufficient to secure our water supplies. We are continuing with the security through diversity program. This is a fantastic additional source of water for the people of Western Australia. It is incredible that although the rest of Australia acknowledges that Western Australia is a leader in this field, the Western Australian opposition continues to bag WA. The mob opposite can never represent the interests of Western Australia. People right across Australia - from the Parliamentary Secretary to the Prime Minister down - are looking to WA’s lead and saying what a good job we have done. However, those opposite continue to bag Western Australia because they do not represent the people of Western Australia. Indeed, they have no understanding of how to do so.
Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the members for Cottesloe and Darling Range to order. Mr J.C. KOBELKE : The Kwinana desalination plant on the shore of Cockburn Sound is the third largest operating plant of its kind in the world. When it becomes fully operational in about two months, it will produce an average of 130 million litres of drinking water a day. Further, it will supply 17 per cent of Perth’s current water supply needs. The plant, and its associated infrastructure, is a marvellous engineering achievement. The hundreds of people involved in the project worked under severe time constraints to produce a world-class facility in just under two years. The project has been delivered on time and on budget. This is a remarkable achievement given the current competition for skilled resources in WA’s buoyant economy. I congratulate Dr Jim Gill and his Water Corporation project team, and the Multiplex Degremont Joint Venture, which worked with the corporation to build this innovative plant. The desalination plant has been the subject of the most rigorous environmental approval procedure ever imposed on a Water Corporation project. The strict monitoring criteria that have been set include the measurement of the concentration of discharge into Cockburn Sound to ensure that the plant does not have a detrimental effect. In turn, the Water Corporation has responded to the approval conditions by establishing the most intensive ocean monitoring program of any desalination plant in the world to gauge the impact on marine life and water quality in the sound. A desalination plant alone is not sufficient to secure our water supplies. We are continuing with the security through diversity program. This is a fantastic additional source of water for the people of Western Australia. It is incredible that although the rest of Australia acknowledges that Western Australia is a leader in this field, the Western Australian opposition continues to bag WA. The mob opposite can never represent the interests of Western Australia. People right across Australia - from the Parliamentary Secretary to the Prime Minister down - are looking to WA’s lead and saying what a good job we have done. However, those opposite continue to bag Western Australia because they do not represent the people of Western Australia. Indeed, they have no understanding of how to do so.
The SPEAKER : I call the members for Cottesloe and Darling Range to order. Mr J.C. KOBELKE : The Kwinana desalination plant on the shore of Cockburn Sound is the third largest operating plant of its kind in the world. When it becomes fully operational in about two months, it will produce an average of 130 million litres of drinking water a day. Further, it will supply 17 per cent of Perth’s current water supply needs. The plant, and its associated infrastructure, is a marvellous engineering achievement. The hundreds of people involved in the project worked under severe time constraints to produce a world-class facility in just under two years. The project has been delivered on time and on budget. This is a remarkable achievement given the current competition for skilled resources in WA’s buoyant economy. I congratulate Dr Jim Gill and his Water Corporation project team, and the Multiplex Degremont Joint Venture, which worked with the corporation to build this innovative plant. The desalination plant has been the subject of the most rigorous environmental approval procedure ever imposed on a Water Corporation project. The strict monitoring criteria that have been set include the measurement of the concentration of discharge into Cockburn Sound to ensure that the plant does not have a detrimental effect. In turn, the Water Corporation has responded to the approval conditions by establishing the most intensive ocean monitoring program of any desalination plant in the world to gauge the impact on marine life and water quality in the sound. A desalination plant alone is not sufficient to secure our water supplies. We are continuing with the security through diversity program. This is a fantastic additional source of water for the people of Western Australia. It is incredible that although the rest of Australia acknowledges that Western Australia is a leader in this field, the Western Australian opposition continues to bag WA. The mob opposite can never represent the interests of Western Australia. People right across Australia - from the Parliamentary Secretary to the Prime Minister down - are looking to WA’s lead and saying what a good job we have done. However, those opposite continue to bag Western Australia because they do not represent the people of Western Australia. Indeed, they have no understanding of how to do so.
Mr J.C. KOBELKE : The Kwinana desalination plant on the shore of Cockburn Sound is the third largest operating plant of its kind in the world. When it becomes fully operational in about two months, it will produce an average of 130 million litres of drinking water a day. Further, it will supply 17 per cent of Perth’s current water supply needs. The plant, and its associated infrastructure, is a marvellous engineering achievement. The hundreds of people involved in the project worked under severe time constraints to produce a world-class facility in just under two years. The project has been delivered on time and on budget. This is a remarkable achievement given the current competition for skilled resources in WA’s buoyant economy. I congratulate Dr Jim Gill and his Water Corporation project team, and the Multiplex Degremont Joint Venture, which worked with the corporation to build this innovative plant. The desalination plant has been the subject of the most rigorous environmental approval procedure ever imposed on a Water Corporation project. The strict monitoring criteria that have been set include the measurement of the concentration of discharge into Cockburn Sound to ensure that the plant does not have a detrimental effect. In turn, the Water Corporation has responded to the approval conditions by establishing the most intensive ocean monitoring program of any desalination plant in the world to gauge the impact on marine life and water quality in the sound. A desalination plant alone is not sufficient to secure our water supplies. We are continuing with the security through diversity program. This is a fantastic additional source of water for the people of Western Australia. It is incredible that although the rest of Australia acknowledges that Western Australia is a leader in this field, the Western Australian opposition continues to bag WA. The mob opposite can never represent the interests of Western Australia. People right across Australia - from the Parliamentary Secretary to the Prime Minister down - are looking to WA’s lead and saying what a good job we have done. However, those opposite continue to bag Western Australia because they do not represent the people of Western Australia. Indeed, they have no understanding of how to do so.
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