If the NSW Government was serious about preventing \u201cFish Armageddon\u201d this summer, it would secure water supply for native fish so they don\u2019t need rescuing in the first place, Greens water spokesperson Senator Sarah Hanson-Young said.
\n\u201cThe NSW Government\u2019s refusal to accept the findings of the Natural Resources Commission is outrageous. The findings show over-allocation of water in favour of up-stream corporate irrigators pushed the river system into severe drought three years earlier than it would have, leading to the fish kills in the Menindee Lakes and Darling River.
\n\u201cThey\u2019ve had more than six months since those devastating fish kills to stop over extraction and lift the freeze on buying back environmental water so native fish can get the water they need to survive.
\n\u201cInstead, they plan to rescue dying fish from the river when the heat sets in and the water stops flowing, which does nothing to prevent future fish kills.
\n\u201cIt\u2019s time the NSW Government stopped working in favour of\u00a0big corporate irrigators\u00a0and started acting in the best interests of family farmers, river communities, the environment and native fish.
\n\u201cWater must be returned to the River and we must have a Royal Commission to fix the management of the Murray Darling Basin before it is too late.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
If the NSW Government was serious about preventing \u201cFish Armageddon\u201d this summer, it would secure water supply for native fish so they don\u2019t need rescuing in the first place, Greens water spokesperson Senator Sarah Hanson-Young said. \u201cThe NSW Government\u2019s refusal to accept the findings of the Natural Resources Commission is outrageous. The findings show over-allocation … Continue reading “\u201cFish Armageddon\u201d plan weak without water”<\/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-3550","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\/3550","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=3550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3550\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}