Post by NFA on Jul 5, 2023 4:20:27 GMT 8
RE: Hope’s in the pipeline
The Editor
The Cairns Post
Could the Water Minister please explain the proposed allocation of 20,550 ML of water in the Barron catchment, (Hope’s in the pipeline, 05/07)?
Common sense tells us that irrigators could use more water, but exactly what productive use do “First Nations peoples” and “environment groups” have for 8,220 Olympic swimming pools of water?
Indigenous people didn’t have dams, so water released from a dam isn’t cultural. If they’re farmers, shouldn’t they be included as irrigators?
Environment groups oppose dams, which extinguishes any claim they might make on dam water.
Not included in the list of potential users is Cairns Regional Council, which would love to access Tinaroo’s water.
Tinaroo was built for the Mareeba-Dimbulah Irrigation Area by the far-sighted governments we now sadly lack.
Cairns should have had two twins to Copperlode Dam by now, but short-sighted politicians folded to the same environmental bullies now demanding Tinaroo’s water.
No doubt anti-humanist environmentalists will insist the water be flushed out to sea as “environmental flows”, despite the pre-Tinaroo Barron becoming just a string of waterholes each dry season.
Just imagine how much better off Queensland and Australia would be if “our” representatives put logic and reality ahead of feelings and fiction.
(200 words)
Peter Campion
Tolga
The Cairns Post
Could the Water Minister please explain the proposed allocation of 20,550 ML of water in the Barron catchment, (Hope’s in the pipeline, 05/07)?
Common sense tells us that irrigators could use more water, but exactly what productive use do “First Nations peoples” and “environment groups” have for 8,220 Olympic swimming pools of water?
Indigenous people didn’t have dams, so water released from a dam isn’t cultural. If they’re farmers, shouldn’t they be included as irrigators?
Environment groups oppose dams, which extinguishes any claim they might make on dam water.
Not included in the list of potential users is Cairns Regional Council, which would love to access Tinaroo’s water.
Tinaroo was built for the Mareeba-Dimbulah Irrigation Area by the far-sighted governments we now sadly lack.
Cairns should have had two twins to Copperlode Dam by now, but short-sighted politicians folded to the same environmental bullies now demanding Tinaroo’s water.
No doubt anti-humanist environmentalists will insist the water be flushed out to sea as “environmental flows”, despite the pre-Tinaroo Barron becoming just a string of waterholes each dry season.
Just imagine how much better off Queensland and Australia would be if “our” representatives put logic and reality ahead of feelings and fiction.
(200 words)
Peter Campion
Tolga