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Farmer Roy's Random Thoughts - I never said it was easy.
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<blockquote data-quote="Farmer Roy" data-source="post: 5865438" data-attributes="member: 71668"><p>[USER=44958]@cows sh#t me to tears[/USER] - heres one for you</p><p></p><p><a href="https://www.facebook.com/bernie.jackson.792?fref=gs&__tn__=%2CdCH-R-R&eid=ARCoQfbcYMCp5h4XFE0zjTGSDfy5zQSj0TKpCshmFetFzrA9oaKSg9TToHeK1PchNGoy1eysqAcJlyuz&hc_ref=ART9f_WyRnjC8iIkLcutfSNoK9b4ioLcLUiYe7nFeZEcryO_dDbQQime6_yWYSt-XZs&dti=102251733554607&hc_location=group" target="_blank"><u>Bernie Jackson</u></a> <em><u>to</u></em> <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/102251733554607/permalink/610599469386495/" target="_blank"><u>THE GOSS</u></a></p><p><a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/102251733554607/permalink/610599469386495/" target="_blank"><u>January 10 at 5:17 PM</u></a></p><p>What’s happening at the moment with Darling is the end result of Tony Burke & Penny Wong’s incompetency in understanding the hydrology of the Northern basin the...se rivers only ever flowed periodically historical records prove that Penny Wong spent 66 million buying Tooralee Station which hasn’t provided any in flow into the Darling since its purchase. You want to blame the Northern Irrigators for the mess the Darling Is in think again Cotton has been grown in the Namoi valley successfully since 1963 & the Gwydir Valley since 1976 both Lake Keepit which is now empty & Lake Copeton where built as irrigation dams there’s never been an issue with water here till these morons started buying water back in 2007. What is happening at the moment is an end result of those water buy backs & government incompetence in the management of environmental flows as with now what’s happening now with Menindee lakes they’ve been full twice 2012 & 2016 & have been drained twice in less then 12 months to try & prop the mess South Australia has made of the Coorong. The water has been diverted away from the Coorong with man made drains for last 100 years also the barrages need to be removed from Lake Alexandria & return it to are estuarine system as it was pre 1940</p><p>What is happening at the moment with these water releases & they where told in 2007 it will accelerate the process of not only drought but bank erosion as well , instead of are 10 or 15 year cycle that’s now are 3 year cycle & also accelerating the fish kills in the rivers these issues where never addressed when you release cold water into are river & vice versa you rapidly deoxygenate the water & promote Blue-Green Algae blooms end result on mass fish kills. Cubbie doesn’t have any water despite Jeremy Buckingham peddling images that where taken in 2011-12 after are one in 500 year flood event. This is the worst drought here since Federation despite what the media are saying our last major fall of rain was September 2016 & at the moment this drought is forecast till 2024. There’s been opportunities to drought proof these northern rivers by bringing water back over the mountains. The EIS’s where done on dam sights on the Clarence Mann & Manning rivers plus several others but Bob Car turned those sites into National parks. What it amounts to is they don’t want agriculture in this country & there’s possibly of another 6 to 8 years of drought that’s going to happen sooner rather then later</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Farmer Roy, post: 5865438, member: 71668"] [USER=44958]@cows sh#t me to tears[/USER] - heres one for you [URL='https://www.facebook.com/bernie.jackson.792?fref=gs&__tn__=%2CdCH-R-R&eid=ARCoQfbcYMCp5h4XFE0zjTGSDfy5zQSj0TKpCshmFetFzrA9oaKSg9TToHeK1PchNGoy1eysqAcJlyuz&hc_ref=ART9f_WyRnjC8iIkLcutfSNoK9b4ioLcLUiYe7nFeZEcryO_dDbQQime6_yWYSt-XZs&dti=102251733554607&hc_location=group'][U]Bernie Jackson[/U][/URL] [I][U]to[/U][/I] [URL='https://www.facebook.com/groups/102251733554607/permalink/610599469386495/'][U]THE GOSS[/U] [U]January 10 at 5:17 PM[/U][/URL] What’s happening at the moment with Darling is the end result of Tony Burke & Penny Wong’s incompetency in understanding the hydrology of the Northern basin the...se rivers only ever flowed periodically historical records prove that Penny Wong spent 66 million buying Tooralee Station which hasn’t provided any in flow into the Darling since its purchase. You want to blame the Northern Irrigators for the mess the Darling Is in think again Cotton has been grown in the Namoi valley successfully since 1963 & the Gwydir Valley since 1976 both Lake Keepit which is now empty & Lake Copeton where built as irrigation dams there’s never been an issue with water here till these morons started buying water back in 2007. What is happening at the moment is an end result of those water buy backs & government incompetence in the management of environmental flows as with now what’s happening now with Menindee lakes they’ve been full twice 2012 & 2016 & have been drained twice in less then 12 months to try & prop the mess South Australia has made of the Coorong. The water has been diverted away from the Coorong with man made drains for last 100 years also the barrages need to be removed from Lake Alexandria & return it to are estuarine system as it was pre 1940 What is happening at the moment with these water releases & they where told in 2007 it will accelerate the process of not only drought but bank erosion as well , instead of are 10 or 15 year cycle that’s now are 3 year cycle & also accelerating the fish kills in the rivers these issues where never addressed when you release cold water into are river & vice versa you rapidly deoxygenate the water & promote Blue-Green Algae blooms end result on mass fish kills. Cubbie doesn’t have any water despite Jeremy Buckingham peddling images that where taken in 2011-12 after are one in 500 year flood event. This is the worst drought here since Federation despite what the media are saying our last major fall of rain was September 2016 & at the moment this drought is forecast till 2024. There’s been opportunities to drought proof these northern rivers by bringing water back over the mountains. The EIS’s where done on dam sights on the Clarence Mann & Manning rivers plus several others but Bob Car turned those sites into National parks. What it amounts to is they don’t want agriculture in this country & there’s possibly of another 6 to 8 years of drought that’s going to happen sooner rather then later [/QUOTE]
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