Weather Bureau confirms pipeline should be stopped
“The just-released drought statement by the Bureau of Meteorology is another reason to cancel Labor’s proposed pipeline to flush water to Melbourne,” Sophie Mirabella, the Federal Member for Indi, said today.
In the drought statement, the Bureau of Meterology said:
For the 6-month period from June to November 2007 an area of serious to severe rainfall deficiencies covered much of central and northeast SA, together with patches in the southern NT, southwest Queensland, southern NSW, Victoria, scattered parts of WA and an area in eastern Tasmania.
In addition, the Bureau said:
The deficiencies discussed above have occurred against a backdrop of multi-year rainfall deficits and record high temperatures that have severely stressed water supplies in the east and southwest of the country. Several years of above average rainfall are required to remove the very long-term deficits.
“The Federal Minister for Water, Senator Penny Wong, must now step in and order her Labor colleagues to cancel their plans to steal water out of the Murray-Goulburn system,” Mrs Mirabella said.
“This is a key test for the new Federal Labor Party – whether they have the integrity to stand up for what is right for the Murray system, or whether they will buckle to the pressure of their Labor mates in Melbourne.”
“Senator Wong, from South Australia, should be acutely aware of the impact of the Labor Party’s plot to take water out of the system. Other potential users of the water, including towns and irrigators, will be severely hurt by this policy.”
The Bureau of Meteorology’s statement is available online at http://www.bom.gov.au/announcements/media_releases/climate/drought/20071205.shtml
In the drought statement, the Bureau of Meterology said:
For the 6-month period from June to November 2007 an area of serious to severe rainfall deficiencies covered much of central and northeast SA, together with patches in the southern NT, southwest Queensland, southern NSW, Victoria, scattered parts of WA and an area in eastern Tasmania.
In addition, the Bureau said:
The deficiencies discussed above have occurred against a backdrop of multi-year rainfall deficits and record high temperatures that have severely stressed water supplies in the east and southwest of the country. Several years of above average rainfall are required to remove the very long-term deficits.
“The Federal Minister for Water, Senator Penny Wong, must now step in and order her Labor colleagues to cancel their plans to steal water out of the Murray-Goulburn system,” Mrs Mirabella said.
“This is a key test for the new Federal Labor Party – whether they have the integrity to stand up for what is right for the Murray system, or whether they will buckle to the pressure of their Labor mates in Melbourne.”
“Senator Wong, from South Australia, should be acutely aware of the impact of the Labor Party’s plot to take water out of the system. Other potential users of the water, including towns and irrigators, will be severely hurt by this policy.”
The Bureau of Meteorology’s statement is available online at http://www.bom.gov.au/announcements/media_releases/climate/drought/20071205.shtml
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