AMP Energy CEO, Paul Ezekiel, spoke with Emma Peddler about a green energy hub and port at Cape Hardy which would require a large desal plant. Link from 2:05:15

Every day there are new voices opposing a desal plant at Billy Lights Point. Today its abalone and oyster farmers concerned at the utter lack of due diligence.

Joining the local resistance to SA Water’s decision to place a desal plant at Billy Lights Point are 11 local councils.

THE EP Advocate surveys industry anger at SA Water and the government’s decision to select a desal site at Billy Lights Point. Link

Bernadette Clarke of the Rural Report takes a deep dive with marine biologists Professor Paul McShane on the myriad problems with building a desal plant at Boston and Proper Bays, a move which would threaten the aquaculture industry. Link

Industry anger has surrounded the SA Government’s recent decision to nominate Billy Lights Point as the site for a desal plant. Link (starts at 15:55)

Professor of Oceanography at Flinders Uni, Jochen Kaempf points out that the document the SA govt has relied upon for its decision is scientifically flawed and should not be a guide to decided on the location for a desal plant. Link

The SA Govt has chosen the cheapest option for a desal plant by nominating Billy Lights Point, but as Peter Treloar and Mark Andrews of HoBB point out, it’s at the cost of aquaculture zones and jobs. Link

Billy Lights Point in the EP is a unique marine environment and its aquaculture industry depends on pristine waters. This $200mn per annum industry is at risk from recent decision by SA Govt to place a desal plant at BLP. Link

Sam Telfer and HoBB’s Mark Andrews condemn Water Minister, Susan Close’s decision to select BLP as the preferred desal site. Link

Narelle Graham of ABC speaks with Sam Telfer & Prof Jochem Kaempf about the decision to choose Sleaford West as the desal site

Port Lincoln fishers, seafood industry raise environmental fears over SA Water’s Port Lincoln desalination plant plan. Link

Senator Rex Patrick takes out a full page ad in the Port Lincoln Times opposing the desal plant location and calling for a long term solution

Port Lincoln seafood industry concerned about desalination plant location. Link

Mark Andrews of the Hands off Boston Bay talks to 5CC about the impacts a desalination plant would have on the mussel industry.

A desal plant being dropped in Boston Bay would set a wrecking ball through the regional economy at the worst possible time.

SA Water announces Billy Lights Point as the preferred site of a desal plant. Mark Andrews suggests that’s news to the stakeholders and that the impacts are untested. Link

Rex Patrick announces SA Water’s process for selecting the site of a desal plant at Billy Lights point is a sham. Link.

The aquaculture industry rejects SA Water’s science in decision to place a desal plant in Boston Bay.. Rex Patrick goes on a tour of the bay. Link.

Channel 7 covers Rex Patrick’s visit to Boston Bay to learn about the damage a desal plant would wreak on the regional economy and environment. Link.

Keith is not impressed with the maths & due process of SA Water who are willing to kill the tourism & seafood industry. Link

Local leaders from Port Lincoln are not impressed with SA Water’s rushed decision to place a desal plant in a prime tourism area. Link

The Hands off Boston Bay coalition talk to the Port Lincoln Times about the upcoming community event against desal plant. Link

Mark Andrews of Hands off Boston Bay spoke to Narelle Graham about the threat a desal plant in Boston Bay poses to Australia’s mussel industry. Link (from 29:50)

An outline of the growing opposition to a desal plant in Boston Bay and the lack of local support.

Internationally renowned marine biologist, Dr Paul McShane, says PIRSA spent a decade carving out an aquaculture zone at Billy Lights Point and that a desal plant is a danger to this rare state, national, and international reef. Link (from 43:53)