“The Malcolm Turnbull Murray Darling Basin plan has failed and must be abolished.
“We need to change the way we manage what is our most abundant renewable resource, and the only obstacle to this is politics.
“The immediate action must be to stop wasting water on environmental flows that are doing more harm than good. Then we need to build more dams and weirs; and restore the mouth of the Murray.
“If we do these things, there will be plenty of water for all MD basin needs and the environment will benefit hugely (in stark contrast to the scorched earth policy currently in play).”
“Federal government meddling in state matters has made a huge mess of the electricity business and water management. The way out of these messes is to reverse the way we got in.”
Viv Forbes, Chairman, The Carbon Sense Coalition, has spent his life working in exploration, mining, farming, infrastructure, financial analysis and political commentary. He has worked for government departments, private companies and now works as a private contractor and farmer.
Viv has also been a guest writer for the Asian Wall Street Journal, Business Queensland and mining newspapers. He was awarded the “Australian Adam Smith Award for Services to the Free Society” in 1988, and has written widely on political, technical and economic subjects.