Comments on: Interview of Mike Young: A Future-proofed Basin http://blog.litfuse.com.au/2008/03/13/interview-of-mike-young-a-future-proofed-basin/ Igniting Ideas Fri, 12 Mar 2010 09:18:38 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Gary Looney http://blog.litfuse.com.au/2008/03/13/interview-of-mike-young-a-future-proofed-basin/#comment-828 Gary Looney Mon, 01 Jun 2009 04:10:38 +0000 http://litfuse.wordpress.com/?p=91#comment-828 Darling River (Australia) Salinity, Drought and Sustainability message for All A little message to remind us what is important. Please read the text that goes with message http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMt2d01C_og People power and Sustainability, please pass it on Cheers Darling River (Australia) Salinity, Drought and Sustainability message for All
A little message to remind us what is important.

Please read the text that goes with message
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMt2d01C_og

People power and Sustainability, please pass it on
Cheers

]]> By: Sue Willis http://blog.litfuse.com.au/2008/03/13/interview-of-mike-young-a-future-proofed-basin/#comment-456 Sue Willis Mon, 09 Jun 2008 09:42:11 +0000 http://litfuse.wordpress.com/?p=91#comment-456 Dear Paul, Please pass on to Mike Young that when he is considering his new plan for the Murray Darling that he puts some thought into what is about to happen a long way from him but right at the beginning of one of the tributaries that eventually leads into the Darling River. If we don't get help up here shortly we will be sending down the system water found within the coal strata which as I am sure you know will be saline in nature and contaminated with organic derivatives and toxic and heavy metals. We are a group based on the Liverpool Plains in northern NSW and we are battling one of the mining giants who want to dig up and tunnel under our rich fertile plains and pollute our fresh water aquifers. We are on the Mooki River which feeds into the Namoi which feeds into the Barwon and into the Darling. All our water heads your way and we are the first exploration area. If they get going there will be many mines from the Great Divide to the Queensland border and the whole system won't stand a chance. We are trying to help this end but any help from you guys would be appreciated. For further information check our website www.ccag.org.au Thanks Sue Willis Dear Paul,
Please pass on to Mike Young that when he is considering his new plan for the Murray Darling that he puts some thought into what is about to happen a long way from him but right at the beginning of one of the tributaries that eventually leads into the Darling River. If we don’t get help up here shortly we will be sending down the system water found within the coal strata which as I am sure you know will be saline in nature and contaminated with organic derivatives and toxic and heavy metals. We are a group based on the Liverpool Plains in northern NSW and we are battling one of the mining giants who want to dig up and tunnel under our rich fertile plains and pollute our fresh water aquifers. We are on the Mooki River which feeds into the Namoi which feeds into the Barwon and into the Darling. All our water heads your way and we are the first exploration area. If they get going there will be many mines from the Great Divide to the Queensland border and the whole system won’t stand a chance. We are trying to help this end but any help from you guys would be appreciated. For further information check our website http://www.ccag.org.au Thanks Sue Willis

]]> By: We need to talk about saving the murray, darling! | Learning with the Fang http://blog.litfuse.com.au/2008/03/13/interview-of-mike-young-a-future-proofed-basin/#comment-424 We need to talk about saving the murray, darling! | Learning with the Fang Thu, 15 May 2008 09:53:41 +0000 http://litfuse.wordpress.com/?p=91#comment-424 [...] viewing version of the murray darling episode here. Watch the episode, listen to podcasts like this, this and this ripper from the late Peter [...] [...] viewing version of the murray darling episode here. Watch the episode, listen to podcasts like this, this and this ripper from the late Peter [...]

]]> By: Ginny Douglas http://blog.litfuse.com.au/2008/03/13/interview-of-mike-young-a-future-proofed-basin/#comment-405 Ginny Douglas Tue, 01 Apr 2008 21:34:26 +0000 http://litfuse.wordpress.com/?p=91#comment-405 Enough is enough says Fair Water Use (Australia) Fair Water Use (Australia) is a national group formed by everyday Australians, with the shared vision of a revived Murray-Darling basin and the sustainable environmental, community and economic benefits that would flow from its recovery. Fair Water Use (Australia) welcomes Victoria’s signing–on to the national Murray-Darling rescue plan as a significant development, but says the future health of this vital river system is far from assured. The recent decision by the Queensland Government to buy back stored water from a large private irrigator in an effort to save dying wet lands and an endangered water bird species is a further indication of the dysfunctional nature of the current arrangements. Although details have not been released, it is probable that the company involved will reap a hefty profit from returning a national resource to the public domain and allowing the creeks to flow as nature intended. It is estimated that flows into the Murray Darling Basin must be increased by 1,500 billion litres to achieve a moderate improvement in the status of the river system. This may seem an impossible ask. However, according to latest figures obtained by Fair Water Use from the Australian Bureau of Statistics, the volume of water extracted from the Murray-Darling catchment and used to irrigate Australian cotton and rice in 2005-6 exceeded a staggering 2,800 billion litres. The end of broad-acre cultivation of cotton and rice is critical to the future of the Murray-Darling, according to Fair Water Use (Australia)'s, Dr Ian Douglas. "As an example, Cubbie Station is licensed to take 460 billion litres – more than enough to fill Sydney Harbour - the equivalent of all irrigation entitlements downstream in north-western NSW," Dr Douglas said. "This vast volume is extracted from the Murray-Darling catchment virtually free-of-charge. After recent rains in Queensland, Cubbie Station dams now contain over three years supply of water which it will use for the cultivation of cotton in a country ravaged by drought. "There is irrefutable evidence that the plight of the Murray-Darling Basin and the resulting regional, social and environmental devastation, is in part a consequence of the activities of Cubbie and others involved in the cultivation of inappropriate and unnecessary crops on the driest continent on earth." Fair Water Use (Australia) will continue to apply pressure to the Federal Government to take urgent and specific action to resolve this anathema, including the buy-back of the nation’s water from cotton and rice producers. Please join our campaign and contact your local State and Federal MPs and Environment Ministers. For further details, please contact: fairwateruse@internode.on.net Website: www.fairwateruse.com.au Media enquiries: Jilea Morrad: 0423 707 372 Enough is enough says Fair Water Use (Australia)

Fair Water Use (Australia) is a national group formed by everyday Australians, with the shared vision of a revived Murray-Darling basin and the sustainable environmental, community and economic benefits that would flow from its recovery.

Fair Water Use (Australia) welcomes Victoria’s signing–on to the national Murray-Darling rescue plan as a significant development, but says the future health of this vital river system is far from assured.

The recent decision by the Queensland Government to buy back stored water from a large private irrigator in an effort to save dying wet lands and an endangered water bird species is a further indication of the dysfunctional nature of the current arrangements. Although details have not been released, it is probable that the company involved will reap a hefty profit from returning a national resource to the public domain and allowing the creeks to flow as nature intended.

It is estimated that flows into the Murray Darling Basin must be increased by 1,500 billion litres to achieve a moderate improvement in the status of the river system.

This may seem an impossible ask. However, according to latest figures obtained by Fair Water Use from the Australian Bureau of Statistics, the volume of water extracted from the Murray-Darling catchment and used to irrigate Australian cotton and rice in 2005-6 exceeded a staggering 2,800 billion litres.

The end of broad-acre cultivation of cotton and rice is critical to the future of the Murray-Darling, according to Fair Water Use (Australia)’s, Dr Ian Douglas.

“As an example, Cubbie Station is licensed to take 460 billion litres – more than enough to fill Sydney Harbour – the equivalent of all irrigation entitlements downstream in north-western NSW,” Dr Douglas said.

“This vast volume is extracted from the Murray-Darling catchment virtually free-of-charge. After recent rains in Queensland, Cubbie Station dams now contain over three years supply of water which it will use for the cultivation of cotton in a country ravaged by drought.

“There is irrefutable evidence that the plight of the Murray-Darling Basin and the resulting regional, social and environmental devastation, is in part a consequence of the activities of Cubbie and others involved in the cultivation of inappropriate and unnecessary crops on the driest continent on earth.”

Fair Water Use (Australia) will continue to apply pressure to the Federal Government to take urgent and specific action to resolve this anathema, including the buy-back of the nation’s water from cotton and rice producers. Please join our campaign and contact your local State and Federal MPs and Environment Ministers.

For further details, please contact: fairwateruse@internode.on.net

Website: http://www.fairwateruse.com.au

Media enquiries: Jilea Morrad: 0423 707 372

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