Desal’s worth queried

provided different figures, with the costing per megalitre $256 for Seqwater and $4881 for Tugun – 19 times more.

“The big question is what are the non-continuous costs. It’s not apples for apples. One costs a hell of a lot more money. What are they trying to hide?” Ms Stuckey said.

But the desalination plant had yet to benefit the Gold Coast, Ms Stuckey said.

“My concern is the whole of the disruption when building it, the damage to homes. The salt in the wound is the water is going out to southeast Queensland,” she said.