At the time, the need was not anticipated by government. Most Australian population is close to coastal areas on the South and East. Water is needed by farmers but sufficient was had for the time, or the government was not caring of the need.
Gradually, excuses evolved from environmentalists to oppose it. It would mean substantial change to the ecology. Australian fauna and flora could face extinction. It would mean flooding areas which would result in rising salinity. It would increase the size of the desert. It would spread radioactivity from land bearing uranium. It would end Aboriginal way of life. It would mean more dams, and Australia does not want dams, and it will never rain again in dams. The northern sea needs the fresh water, and if it is rerouted then the ecology would collapse. It would involve prohibitive piping. A Wikipedia editor, misunderstanding the water volume report, claimed that Bradfield had said Queensland had more area than Australia and that was absurd so the scheme was too. Other Wikipedia editors claimed the waterbody effect was not scientific, and although observed everywhere in the world, would not work in Australia. Water in Northern Australia is not noted in per capita statistics for Australia, so that it is not reported by scientists that Australia is the world's wettest continent for fresh water. Instead, per capita rainfall is claimed in isolation and the small rainfall in southern areas is used to justify the claim Australia is dry.
The Great Barrier reef is big and getting bigger, but coral bleaching as a direct result of water flowing from Australia into her northern sea happens regularly. Inland flooding happens regularly without the results claimed by hysterics. It is not impossible to flood the inland, but that is not what is being proposed anyway. Since 1938, the Bradfield scheme has evolved. It was part of Two Rivers scheme, which was successful. Now, it is legislated for by Barnaby Joyce's 100 dam plan. It is paid for federally. But The ALP State government of Queensland and Northern Territory are opposing the production of the first few dams. News media which is partisan with Green/ALP policy refuse to allow public discussion of virtues of the project, claiming it is unscientific, unproven and radical. When former PM Howard asked CSIRO regarding the project, the activist scientist in charge made some of the unjustified claims above.
Australian farmers need the fresh irrigation water. Australia needs the dams built, and the fresh water could support development of inland Australia. It is cheap to build, but failing to build it impedes progress. A natural park for wildlife could be created to protect and conserve the ecology of the Northern sea board reliant on highly diluted fresh salt water.
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Looks like we will be doing an analysis / focus AND LOBBYING on Bradfield , sooner than later - as the left have decided water resources and management doesn’t fit their obscene agenda -
Hoping to meet with Malcolm Ieuan Roberts
Before 26/6 .... but that shouldn’t stop us from preparing a strategy to throw this back at the lefty- abc nonsense brigade .
Via MR (The ABC recently did a 'Fact Check' (ie hit piece) on the Bradfield Scheme.
So a good friend of mine fact checked the fact checkers.
"The ABC have been promoting a story on the Bradfield scheme written by their fact-check friends at RMIT. Now it is time to check the checkers. Here are elements of the story, and the errors therein."
Link https://tinyurl.com/yyjyezf5)
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Via LK (You can research, take an in depth look at the original scheme , etc ...
Perhaps look at the ABC stuff they tried to say was a fact check
I’ll have no broad band until very late than Friday)
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Via CM (I lived at Aloomba. QLD. We had 11 acres surrounded by a National Park 5000 hectares, we had a fresh water creek running/ flowing past our house, starting higher up in the mountain behind us, at times we would receive 10 inches of rain in a single night, huge amounts of water would run/flow past our house down into the Mulgrave River and then flow out to the Coral Sea. We were fully serviced for all our needs by this fantastic fresh water.) (Water flowing into the Mulgrave River and then out to the Coral Sea, wasted. Fresh, drinkable, usable for all aspects of humane consumption, we had it at Aloomba, we built a home there and never ever ran out of water.)
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'Water does not run downhill, or uphill. It flows. Why do Bradfield supporters not know water flows?' not a quote, just the vibe of the ABC.
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