20th
September 2012
LETTER
TO THE EDITOR
BASIN DEAL LOOKING
OMINOUSLY BAD
Hello
again,
I
have a very bad feeling about the upcoming Murray Darling Basin Plan.
It
looks like Tony Burke will get his amendments that will give the Murray Darling
Basin Authority absolute power about water diversion limits and increases in
environmental flows.
This
marks a very dark day in what has been a most disappointing year for
communities and farmers in the basin.
There
have been copious volumes of research and feedback provided to the MDBA during
the very ordinary consultation process and very little of it has been paid attention
to and/or acted upon.
Tony
Burke and the federal Labor/Greens party have had a set agenda before the
beginning of all the consultation and have deviated from it very little, this
has cost tens of millions of dollars and is without doubt one of the most
undemocratic processes forced on to us Australians.
There
is no doubt the environment needs increased river flows, it is my and many
others argument that all these flows plus much more can be gained via
infrastructure spending, if we can spend $50 billion plus that is
$50,000,000,000 on a nationwide broadband network surely we can afford the far
less figure than that to go through and update our horribly out of date irrigation
infrastructure, what it requires is vision, commitment, and common sense.
We
need more politicians in Canberra fighting for the 2.1 million people in the
Murray Darling Basin, it seems to me that Tony Abbott is attempting to knobble
the brave few who are prepared to speak out like Barnaby Joyce.
Come
on you Aussies out there become involved, become vocal and hammer your local MP’s
etc regarding this issue.
Facebook:
Murray Darling Basin Connection
Yours Faithfully,
Peter Gilmour
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