Editorial

Derek Barry
Updated March 22 2017 - 11:39am, first published 9:27am
Editorial
Editorial

On the Great Artesian Basin. Continued from Tuesday – A Strategic Management Plan was put in place in 2000 and agreed by COAG. But just like the Murray Darling Basin plan,  the issue of licences and multiple jurisdictions means the issue is inescapably political. The jury remains out on the impact of the extraction of large use of water for mining, especially coal seam gas mining.  Graziers have to be convinced capping and piping will help them decrease their operating costs as well as increasing the pressure of the water and the reliability of its supply.

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Derek Barry

Derek Barry

Editor, the North West Star

Editor of the North West Star Mount Isa since January 2016. Prior to that, an editor at several regional southern Queensland newspapers. Passionate about telling local stories. Comes with a strange accent to due an Irish accident of birth.

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