http://blacktowngreens.org/index.php/2009/12/in-booligal-the-canary-down-the-mine-is-already-gasping/ The Greens in Blacktown and Mt. Druitt on the web Thu, 13 May 2010 23:52:29 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 http://blacktowngreens.org/index.php/2009/12/in-booligal-the-canary-down-the-mine-is-already-gasping/comment-page-1/#comment-282 greg Sat, 27 Feb 2010 10:16:16 +0000 http://blacktowngreens.org/?p=19#comment-282 All the people of the lower lachlan including Lake Cargelligo,(1300 people) have been suffering for years. The fact that 3 mines take the water from the Lachlan, even when the river was stopped, shows the drastic mis-use of the valuable resource. Critical human needs in the Water Act of 2000 should be the basis of water allocations in times of drought. Clearly mining magnates needs are more important than the needs of communities and families that have relied on the Lachlan for their very existence. Mines and water traders are the overwheling presence on committees and even the critical water committe that administers the scarce waters ot the lachlan in emergency periods. One major critical water member is on Jemalong irrigation and the LCMA and LVWU and has 12000 megs of water license himself? Another member is a Barrick Gold rep? Where are the community representatives that speak on behalf of our families and small farms? Why are the voices of those making profits the only ones being heard? It is time that a water inquiry and audit was had to find the truth of water crimes of the criminally negligent water management Lachlan river. All the people of the lower lachlan including Lake Cargelligo,(1300 people) have been suffering for years. The fact that 3 mines take the water from the Lachlan, even when the river was stopped, shows the drastic mis-use of the valuable resource.
Critical human needs in the Water Act of 2000 should be the basis of water allocations in times of drought. Clearly mining magnates needs are more important than the needs of communities and families that have relied on the Lachlan for their very existence.
Mines and water traders are the overwheling presence on committees and even the critical water committe that administers the scarce waters ot the lachlan in emergency periods. One major critical water member is on Jemalong irrigation and the LCMA and LVWU and has 12000 megs of water license himself? Another member is a Barrick Gold rep? Where are the community representatives that speak on behalf of our families and small farms? Why are the voices of those making profits the only ones being heard?
It is time that a water inquiry and audit was had to find the truth of water crimes of the criminally negligent water management Lachlan river.

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