{"id":23945,"date":"2023-11-10T12:13:21","date_gmt":"2023-11-10T12:13:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=23945"},"modified":"2023-11-10T12:13:21","modified_gmt":"2023-11-10T12:13:21","slug":"guarantees-needed-in-murray-darling-basin-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2023\/11\/10\/guarantees-needed-in-murray-darling-basin-plan\/","title":{"rendered":"GUARANTEES NEEDED IN MURRAY-DARLING BASIN PLAN"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Responding to the release of the Senate inquiry report into the Water Amendment (Restoring Our Rivers) Bill 2023, Senator Hanson-Young, Greens spokesperson for the Environment and Water said:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThis Bill should not pass in its current form.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;\u201cExtending deadlines for water recovery will just kick the can down the road. After a decade of inaction, there must be a guarantee in this Bill that will ensure the Plan will be delivered in full and on time, including the 450GL promised to South Australia and the environment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWithout a guarantee of real water delivery, the Basin will continue to see more fish kills, species decline and degradation of ecosystems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;\u201cWe can\u2019t eat cotton, we can\u2019t drink mud. There are no jobs on a dead river.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAs climate change gets worse and El Nino threatens a hot dry summer, it is crucial that we see water flowing before the next election.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;\u201cThe Greens will not rubber stamp this Bill. We will continue discussions with the Government in good faith. As it stands the Bill will not pass the Senate without a guarantee of environmental flows.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Responding to the release of the Senate inquiry report into the Water Amendment (Restoring Our Rivers) Bill 2023, Senator Hanson-Young, Greens spokesperson for the Environment and Water said: \u201cThis Bill should not pass in its current form. &nbsp;\u201cExtending deadlines for water recovery will just kick the can down the road. After a decade of inaction, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2023\/11\/10\/guarantees-needed-in-murray-darling-basin-plan\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;GUARANTEES NEEDED IN MURRAY-DARLING BASIN PLAN&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aussie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23945"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23945\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23946,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23945\/revisions\/23946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}