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Cubbie Station

Monday, 17 August 2009 10:55 | Written by joni

Cubbie Station in Queensland has long been accused being a significant reason of why the Murray-Darling system is under such stress. The station has a size of 93000 hectares and it is allowed to divert and store up to 500000 megalitres from the Murray-Darling system.

Reports today indicate that the station is now up for sale - with a price approaching half a billion dollars.

I was listening to ABC radio this morning and the story was saying that the water permits and land titles cannot be separated - which is what has happened with other major water users.

If - as seems the case - that the station is one of the causes of the problems in the Murray-Darling system, should government buy the station to help the water system?

CPRS Vote

Thursday, 13 August 2009 11:39 | Written by joni

It looks like the CPRS vote is going to occur in the next few hours. What is going to happen?

Liberals "Cheaper and Greener"... Really?

Monday, 10 August 2009 12:27 | Written by B.Tolputt

The Coalition are obviously desperate to turn their dismal polls around somehow and their opposition to passing an ETS is still against majority opinion (if only just given recent polls). So what is an embattled leader to do?

Why not propose an alternate Carbon Reduction Scheme with the appearance of being cheaper and greener, but without the actual substance? Funnily enough, that's exactly what they're doing.