There has been a four-fold increase in clinical presentations to mental health services in the Mary Valley since the dam announcement, including “suicidal ideation, disassociative order, major depression, and adjustment disorders”*. In addition, the EIS reported that there had been an “increase in presentations of people from the Mary Valley with psychological and psychiatric conditions a few weeks after each event in the project process.” This is confirmation that QWI is incapable of managing the process, or it is evidence that the process is too severely detrimental to be allowed to proceed, or both.

*Information from the QWI EIS on the Traveston Dam