New South Wales Media Releases
- Big irrigator profits destroying the Murray River - February 01, 2012
- Billboards urge SA politicians to stand up for the Murray - February 01, 2012
- Burke has no choice but to reject plan - January 18, 2012
- O’Farrell called to act on 10,000 litre untreated coal seam gas water spill - January 13, 2012
- Dear Griffith: Shooting the messenger won’t stop climate change - December 15, 2011
- 'Licence to pollute' was never obtained for CSG water dumped in creek - December 13, 2011
- CSIRO advice must be adopted for economic confidence in the MDB - November 28, 2011
- Draft plan won’t fix sick Murray-Darling - November 28, 2011
- Job loss claims from big-irrigation lack credibility - November 17, 2011
- CSG inquiry to hear that Pilliga frogs were killed by CSG saline brine - November 15, 2011
Record profits of over $8 billion announced by “big irrigation” come at a huge cost to the environment and to the people of South Australia, who depend on a healthy Murray River, said the Wilderness Society.
Environment groups today launch a campaign calling on South Australia’s federal MPs to represent the interests of their constituents by speaking up for the health of the Murray.
The Wilderness Society has called on the Murray-Darling Basin Authority (MDBA) to acknowledge its failure to show a scientific foundation for its draft plan to return only 2750 Gigalitres (GL) of water to the Murray-Darling, as highlighted by the Wentworth Group today.
Environment groups are calling on Premier Barry O’Farrell to take action and stop coal seam gas work in the Pilliga State Forest, as gas giant Santos today released a statement admitting that 10,000L of untreated coal seam gas water spilled into the Pilliga Forest in June 2011.
Griffith, fired up by the Big Irrigation Lobby, may have made lots of noise at the Murray-Darling Basin Authority’s public meeting today, but irrigators are ignoring the 10,000-pound gorilla in the room – climate change
A document obtained under Freedom of Information suggests that Santos are breaching pollution laws by discharging water into a creek system in the Pilliga, according to environment groups.
The Draft Murray Darling Basin Plan will continue to degrade the environment and the economy, according to the CSIRO review of the scientific basis for the report, said Peter Owen, The Wilderness Society's South Australian Campaign Manager.
The Murray-Darling is one sick river system, and the Murray-Darling Basin Authority’s draft plan released today will not change that horrible reality, the Wilderness Society said. Furthermore, it will also guarantee the waste of $10 billion of taxpayers’ money set aside to save it.
Environment groups have called on big-irrigation to drop the rhetoric about job losses given the environmental, social and economic impacts of failing to return enough water to restore the river to health.
Environment groups will be presenting evidence to the Parliamentary Inquiry in Narrabri today that the coal seam gas industry is a polluting industry that is not in control of the wastes it produces.
