Fertile plains under frack attackMichael McKenzie on Bush Telegraph
Michael McKenzie on Bush Telegraph (ABC Radio National) discusses the recent GAB water auction.
Basin Water Sale a one-off
North-western New South Wales water users fighting the auction of Great Artesian Basin (GAB) water have been given a guarantee it will be a one-off. The State Government is pushing ahead with tomorrow’s sale at Walgett of 1,200 megalitres of water saved from capping and piping bores. But Coonamble’s Anne Kennedy from the Great Artesian […]
Impact of Olympic Dam/Roxby Downs
The Olympic Dam/Roxby Downs mine has a voracious appetite for water to process the uranium, copper, gold and silver it extracts from underground. It obtains this water from the Great Artesian Basin (GAB) within the Lake Eyre region via two principal borefields, known as Borefield A and Borefield B (sometimes called “Wellfield”). These borefields have […]
Xenophon concerned about Artesian Basin
The World Today (ABC) – Nick Xenophon and Professor Craig Simmons, warn that the ancient waters of the GAB are under severe stress (21/09/2009)
Australia’s Artesian Basin – $14 Billion down the drain each year
Australia’s Artesian Basin – $14 Billion down the drain each year The traditional view of the Great Artesian Basin, which is the basis of government policies and which is taught in schools, is that the aquifer is a porous rock where the water content is continuously replenished by slow seepage from the strata outcrops in […]
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Phillip Adams Interview with Endersbee
Phillip Adams on Late Night Live (ABC Radio National) interviews Professor Lance Endersbee – “A Dissident View of Water and Warming”
Farmers in N.W fire up as Feds give nod to artesian sales
ANGRY farmers in the North West are trying to organise a boycott of next month’s Great Artesian Basin water auction in Walgett, but the Federal Government has confirmed it has no problems with the NSW Government’s planned sale. Canberra will not step in and override the new water licence auction, with federal Parliamentary Secretary for […]
Alarm over auction of artesian basin water
FARMERS and one of the state’s leading environmental experts have raised concerns over the NSW Government’s decision to auction water licences for the Great Artesian Basin this month, which is likely to open the way for greater water trading in one of the largest underground reservoirs in the world.
Townie Turnbull’s bridle waltz
I once telephoned Senator Bill Heffernan and the conversation began with this exchange: ‘‘Bill, what’s that din in the background?’’ Heffernan: ‘‘I’m on the tractor.’’
‘‘Are you getting any rain?’’ Heffernan: ‘‘The bastard!’’