'How would you like to handle it?': The minister, the irrigators and a flood | HatAlexander
Three days before the eastern part of the state was drenched by the biggest rain event in decades, the NSW Water Minister Melinda Pavey met a group of irrigation industry players at a Japanese restaurant near Wynyard. It was Tuesday, February 4. They were dining al fresco and a light rain was falling.
Ms Pavey said all meetings with stakeholders were published in the ministerial diaries and each decision to lift the restriction floodplain harvesting were made by the department in conjunction with Water NSW. But he told the story of his meeting with the minister to prove that it was not he who asked for a suspension of the embargo on floodplain harvesting and quite the contrary, since most of his members had yet to see the recent rains fill their parts of the riverbed.The Darling River has ceased to flow along much of its range, including near Wilcannia in far-western NSW.
“It’s just another kick in the guts, because what they’re predicting to get to Menindee, they’re really not sure whether it will even be able to run into the Lower Darling.” But those downstream are suspicious about the risk of damage to infrastructure as a motivation for the suspension, as it was only raised as a factor after the farmers were given permission to pump.
"That [email] was the department looking for evidence that they'd made the right decision," Mr McClure said.
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