PHOTO: Attempts to regulate floodplain harvesting continue to divide opinion in NSW. IMAGE: DPIE Floodplain Harvesting Action Plan
After having their floodplain harvesting regulations disallowed by parliament four times, the NSW Government has once again introduced regulations to legalise and licence floodplain harvesting this month.
The Nature Conservation Council claims that these regulations will “choke the floodplains of NSW Murray-Darling Basin, diverting environmentally critical flood waters and rainfall runoff into private dams”.
But the regulations have the support of the NSW Irrigators Council…