The Federal Government has declared the lower Murray River “critically endangered,” claiming the solution lies in pushing ever more water down the system and tightening controls on agriculture.
Member for Murray, Helen Dalton, says this decision ignores both science and history.
The local member says the Murray did not always naturally run full, all year-round…
“Before man-made dams existed, records show the river stopped flowing over 5 times across the past 150 years. Yet today, productive irrigation water is being forcibly bought back using taxpayer funds and flushed out to sea to sustain artificial outcomes like the fake lower lakes and the diminishing aquifer from the South-East Drains.”
The NSW Member of Parliament said on social media: “The National Farmers’ Federation has warned this new EPBC listing adds more red tape to an already over-regulated system, with no clear environmental gain.”
“What we are witnessing is political blame-shifting disguised as environmental protection.”
