Tony Abbott's 100-Dam Plan The Sharknado Of Australian Politics - Guardian

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Like Sharknado, Tony Abbott's dams "plan", which was leaked in February, has received a lot of short-lived hype. Promising to spend billions of dollars to build 100 new dams, the ABC reported Mr Abbott saying "What we want to avoid is the dam phobia which has afflicted our country for at least a generation".

Senior coalition shadow minister and LNP Senator Barnaby Joyce was reported in The Australian saying "the plan had been developed over a number of years" and "Senior Liberal Eric Abetz said the draft plan confirmed the Coalition had a vision for Australia's development".

Like #sharknado, the 100-dams policy revealed that the Coalition is beset with poor script-writing, terribly banal plots and dull, lifeless characters, but underneath is a more serious problem. Monash University researcher Tim Lubcke has written a review (PDF link) of the Coalition's dams policy, and it is David Stratton-like in its scathing assessment.

The analysis finds that not only would the 100 new dams be unlikely to achieve their aims of improving water security, but would "provide at least a further 0.61 million tonnes of CO2 equivalent annually", thus actually exacerbating Australia's carbon emissions.

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/southern-crossroads/2013/jul/16/tony-abbott-100-dams-sharknado-australian