Cr Glenda Mather with a sample of Fitzroy River Water
IT looks dirty and unappetising, but Glenda Mather is more worried about what we can't see.
Holding a glass of pre-treated Fitzroy River water, the outspoken councillor muses on what it contains.
"The State has effectively given mines and coal-seam gas companies a permit to pollute," she says.
"Who knows what metals and chemicals have washed downstream."
Cr Mather is furious that her colleagues on Rockhampton Regional Council have agreed to spend $50,000 of ratepayers' money to join a new body - Fitzroy Partnerships for River Health - to carry out independent testing of water in the catchment.
The Bulletin
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