Now that Queensland's Premier Anna Bligh has delayed the contentious Traveston Dam on the Mary River north of Brisbane, the Federal Government should bury it, Greens Leader Bob Brown said in Canberra today.

"The national significance of the endangered species the dam would push towards extinction, and of the rich food-producing farmland which would be flooded, makes this dam a stinker."
"The Federal Environment Minister Peter Garrett has ample information and power to stop the destructive project and put everyone - including the Queensland government - out of the misery the dam is causing."

"The very active local community and the Greens in Queensland, including new Greens MP Ronan Lee, deserve a large measure of credit for making the Queensland government rethink its approach to Traveston Dam."

"However Minister Garrett's approval of the Wyaralong Dam on the Logan River is environmentally unsupportable and has the absurd requirement of ‘extensive monitoring of the downstream environment to ensure that the operation of the dam does not impact on the Moreton Bay wetlands.' Monitoring stops nothing," Senator Brown said.