It was a day that will always be remembered in the Mary Valley as the first serious cracks started to show in the state government's push to build Traveston Dam on the Mary River. Anna Bligh's shock announcement that morning that the plan would be shelved for a number of years because of environmental & economic concerns was met with jubilation as hard-working campaigners flocked to the banks of the Mary River to celebrate.

The campaigners know the fight's not over yet, and have vowed to increase the pressure on the state & federal government's until the dam proposal is dead & buried forever... and they welcomed this delay announcement as a public admission that the proposal doesn't stack up, and the state government is floundering in a mess of plunging popularity polls, a looming election, dwindling finances & a failure to address water issues sustainably.

Mary valley residents, engineers, scientists, economists & researchers agree that the Traveston Dam proposal has already cost taxpayers millions of dollars in land purchases, environmental impact studies, glossy propaganda, & on-site actions... and yet the longer the proposal drags on, the worse it looks.

Whether Anna Bligh is trying to back out quietly, or just callously prolonging the uncertainty and pressure on the Mary Valley remains to be seen... the coming weeks & months will tell. Either way, her actions have boosted the spirits and steeled the hearts of the Mary Valley. They say there will be 'No Dam on the Mary River'... and they mean it!