Vic govt rejects new Murray Darling plan

May 28th, 2012

FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda

The Murray Darling Basin Plan could be a death warrant for northern Victoria’s farming communities if it goes ahead in its current form, the Victorian government says.

After seeing a revised draft of the plan on Monday, Water Minister Peter Walsh said there were better ways to achieve environmental outcomes than taking more water from Victoria’s rural communities.

“From Victoria’s point of view we cannot support the plan the way it is,” Mr Walsh told reporters in Melbourne.

Mr Walsh said little had changed since the draft was released last November, despite a 20-week consultation process since then.

“The disappointing part is that for three years the authority spent something like $210 million on staff and consultancies and we’ve now got a third version of the plan that none of the states can agree with,” he said.

“If you take the quantity of water away from food production that’s been talked about … it’s a death warrant to many of the communities in northern Victoria.”

Mr Walsh said state ministers had six weeks to make submissions to the authority.

He said the plan, released by the Murray Darling Basin Authority, still recommends that 2750 gigalitres be taken from communities.

“The target level of 2750 gigalitres has not changed. There is no apportionment of that water between the states, so if all that water was to come out of Victoria, irrigation in northern Victoria would be closed down.”