Melissa Gray, Healthy Rivers Dubbo
“not only do floodplain harvesting diversions deny economic opportunities across the Northern Basin, left unregulated they are one of the most significant threats to water security in the Northern Murray-Darling Basin”.
centralwesterndaily.com.au/earth-first-floodplain-harvesting
An unsolicited modification of licences for irrigators on the Macquarie River has allowed water earmarked for protecting one of the most important wetlands in the Murray-Darling Basin to be diverted for a cotton crop.
SMH
When a lawyer of the standing of Bret Walker SC uses language such as “maladministration”, “unlawful”, “gross negligence” and “indefensible” to describe the conduct of a statutory authority, it’s understandable that it attracts attention.
The NSW and Federal governments must accept responsibility for their role in the catastrophic fish kills on the Darling River in western NSW this month.
NSW Nature Conservation Council and the Inland Rivers Network welcome NSW Labor’s plan for a special commission of inquiry into management of the Darling River system, especially if it results in new measures to ensure environmental water flows are protected.
190121-mr – inquiry welcome but we simply need more h2o for nature to work
Dec 25, 2018
“A fraud on the environment” is how lawyers for the Royal Commission framed it. Cronyism, cover-ups, deception, secrecy, scientists “leaned on”. The Murray-Darling Basin Royal Commission report is to be handed down in little over a month and the outcome, for Australia’s water authorities, will not be pretty. Triskele reports – in a tragi-comedy in three acts – on the extraordinary events surrounding Australia’s most critical inland water system.
