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Emergency Water Bill - very much a work in progress |
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Sunday, 07 September 2008 |
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MEDIA RELEASE
Fair
Water Use views the Senate
Inquiry into the Lower Lakes & Coorong as a welcome initiative, and, like
many, was originally unaware that the Senate committee will also be reviewing
Senator Nick Xenophon's Emergency Water (Murray-Darling Basin Rescue) Bill 2008.
Although this Bill
reflects the growing realisation that a State of Emergency must be declared,
sadly it permits the continuation of water reform, more correctly termed
water privatisation: a process
which should in fact be stopped dead in its tracks. Moreover, in the interests
of expediency, it is COAG, and not the Senate, that should be calling
immediately for a State of
Emergency.
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Murray-Darling chaos: the final straw |
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Thursday, 04 September 2008 |
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MEDIA RELEASE
Coordinator of Fair Water Use (Australia), Dr Ian Douglas has responded to today?s statement
by the Federal Water Minister that the Commonwealth is not in a position to
purchase major irrigating agribusiness enterprise, Darling Farms, in the absence
of support from the State Government of NSW.
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Minister Rees: Part of the solution . . . or part of the problem? |
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Thursday, 28 August 2008 |
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MEDIA
RELEASE
The reported response by the NSW
Water Minister to the likely government purchase of Toorale Station will have
caused many Australians to choke on their Vegemite soldiers this morning. One
cannot help but deduce that Mr Rees lacks either the ability or the will to
acknowledge the anthropogenic factors which have brought the Murray-Darling
Basin to its knees.
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Senator Wong's response: a Eureka moment? |
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Friday, 22 August 2008 |
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MEDIA RELEASE
Although the Senate enquiry as
suggested by the Australian Greens yesterday is a well-meaning proposal, it
unwittingly provides yet another procedural distraction allowing the Federal
Government to continue to dodge its over-riding responsibility to put an end to
the continuing debacle that is the continuing mismanagement of the
Murray-Darling by exercising its emergency powers and assuming immediate control
of the water resources of the entire Basin.
Fair Water Use
(Australia) fully agrees with Senator Wong's response to news
of the proposal, in that she believes that majority of Australians are seeking
action rather than words. Sadly, the nation is becoming increasingly frustrated
as it waits for the Minister to heed her own advice.
Fair Water
Use
urges the Prime Minister and Senator Wong to seize the moment and put an end to
the endemic "politicorporate" connivance that has led to the corruption of the
Murray-Darling Basin. |
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PM's statement implies that MD water reserves have halved in two weeks! |
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Thursday, 14 August 2008 |
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MEDIA RELEASE
Today?s
statement (14th August) by the Prime Minister, that he has been
advised by the Murray-Darling Basin Commission that there is only 2,250
gigalitres in the entire system, raises major concerns about the competence of
the Commission and the impartiality of advice provided to the Ministerial
Council by its Community Advisory Committee.
The figure put forward today appears totally at odds with the
August 7th announcement by Leo Roberts, the acting chief executive
of the MDBC, that total public active storage in the Basin was approximately
4800 gigalitres and that private holdings were estimated at over 800 gigalitres.
The
PM?s statement comes shortly after the NSW Department of Water and Energy
announced that water allocations to their irrigators may be further increased
as a result of recent inflows into upper Murray storages following recent
rains.
Fair Water Use is calling for the disbanding of the advisory body that is
the MDBC and its replacement by a totally independent authority with vested
powers to act in the interests of the river system, upon which more than 3
million Australians depend. |
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