Published in the Sydney Morning Herald 20th July 2020 The Murray Darling Basin Plan came into effect on June 30, 2019. One year later there is still a shortfall of 46.7 billion litres in water recovery, mainly in the Northern…
Letter to the Editor, Northern Daily Leader: Phil Spark, Tamworth NSW. “I agree with Barnaby the government does face annihilation, but not because it hasn’t built dams, rather because it hasn’t acknowledged the climate emergency and is out of touch…
Read More Letter to the Editor, Northern Daily Leader: Phil Spark, Tamworth NSW. 8th October 2019
The Saturday Paper – Margaret Simons 4/7/2020 “When you’ve got 60 or 70 per cent of the activity in that market with prices that are zero or non-commercial, then you know that technically the market isn’t real,” says Loch. “I’ve…
Read More Govt tight-lipped on ACCC Murray–Darling Basin water report
Environmental Defenders Office The NSW Government is poised to sign off on plans for the Murray-Darling that will lock in inadequate volumes of environmental water for the next decade. The Water Sharing Plans set out how water in the river…
Read More NSW Water Sharing Plans set to fail farmers, communities and the environment
Sydney Morning Herald, Peter Hannam 6/2/2020 Billions of dollars in water licences and infrastructure in the Murray-Darling Basin hinge on complex and opaque rules that vary greatly between rivers, with downstream communities and the environment often losing out. Those are…
Read More Clouds become water entitlements in ad hoc river plan, paper finds
Sydney Morning Herald By Harriet Alexander May 29, 2020 Floodplain graziers and environmental groups are considering legal action against the NSW government if it signs off on controversial water sharing plans, arguing the plans do not adequately take into account…
