No price too high for saving the environment

Andrew Bolt today notes that a Victorian Labour government, rather than construct a proposed water-supply reservoir, converted the dam reservation into parkland and built a desalination plant instead. Based on the astronomically high cost of this desalinated water – "13.50 a kilolitre - compared to just $1 for our current supplies" – Bolt deems the desalination plant "The greatest green folly in Victoria’s history".

PP boy Jeremy Sear objects to Bolt's characterisation, arguing that both the Greens and environmentalists in general opposed construction of the desalination plant. True enough, but the Left was almost unanimously opposed to construction of the dam. Without the dam or a desalination plant where was the water to come from? Perhaps all Victorians should follow the Left's conservation lead by bathing and changing bong-water less often.