yeh one word liar ...here's another couple fabian...

yeh one word liar ...here's another couple fabian socialist.

here's another of there stuff ups


The Clarence Scheme was summarised
in , July
12, 1997: ?Several factors are now
combining to make it feasible and
economic to divert the seaward flowing
waters of the upper Clarence,
Nimboida and Macleay Rivers into
the Murray Darling basin. The annual
flow of water available is comparable
to that of the Snowy Mountain
diversions.
?The Clarence Project would enable
the development of further irrigation
along the Dumaresq and
MacIntyre Rivers that form the border
between NSW and Qld. The
Macleay project would involve the
transmountain diversion into the
Gwydir River in NSW.?
The Clarence Scheme was elaborated
by its designer, Prof. Lance
Endersbee, in a speech to the CEC
on November 23, 1997:
?There is the catchment of the
Clarence River and it is a wonderful
little cup in there and very steep
country, high rainfall and one of the
highest rainfall areas in Australia,
and they get the summer rains from
the monsoons coming down and
they get the winter rains as well. So
there is a lot of rainfall there and it
all flows out into the sea, and if you
have been to Grafton, you know how
wide the Clarence River is in Grafton.
It?s a big river. So I have worked out,
designed a scheme for the diversion
of the Clarence into the Darling.
?Now, as you know, there is a lot
of algae in the Darling?. This
would flush all the algae out of the
Darling. I have designed this as a
pump storage scheme. There is a
surplus of thermal energy, coal fired
thermal energy from the Hunter and
LaTrobe Valley and there is a surplus
of thermal energy on the national
grid and the national grid just
goes right through there?past the
project.? So I knew that there was
a surplus of thermal energy overnight
and at weekends and so with
this Clarence diversion, rather than
tunneling through the mountains, I
could pump it up the hill and so I
have devised a scheme whereby we
pump overnight and at weekends,
and we generate at peak times, on
the way down the hill, and the
project is economic!?
10. The Murray-Darling Basin
Prof. Endersbee: ?There is an opportunity
to greatly develop
the existing Murray-Darling Basin,
where they really only use effectively,
something like 10% of
the water that is applied to the land,
deplorably low. So I?ve been saying,
it is readily possible, to double
the efficiency, which means we
could double the area of land, with
the same volume of water or even
go further. I?ve just been in touch
with the Chairman of the Commonwealth
Scientific and Industrial
Research Organisation. He?s told
me that the new chief of that organisation
is looking at the same
possibility of doubling the output
of food for the same volume of water
in the basin. Now, once again,
that is a project that initially might
cost $5 billion. The point is that
the volume of output, at the present
moment in the Murray-Darling basin,
is about $20 billion a year, if
you add crops plus all the manufacturing
based on food, and food
products and things like that. The
agriculture in the Murray-Darling
basin, plus the processing is something
about $20 billion. [Prof. Endersbee
has updated earlier estimates
of $16 billion.] Now we
could go pretty close to doing that
again. In other words, we could
easily add another $20 billion dollars,
of output, for the same volume
of water. So, if that is the potential
value per annum, that means
we could easily justify a capital
cost, of $5 billion to start, then we
go, and get on with it?. However,
the private sector is unlikely to embark
on the complete design and
construction of entirely new irrigation
systems. This would involve
new diversion weirs, pumping
plants, new lined channels totaling
hundreds of kilometres, pipe
distribution systems, and the opening
up of vast new lands for irrigated agricluture ..

not only that there is also the prospect of providing northern NSW and SE Queensland with clean green hydro electricity .

the howard gov was intent on making irrigation in the basin more effectient , and more productive .
The fabian socialist rudd gillard crew are attempting to destroy it . They made plenty noise about infrastructure , and as with anything else they say it's either spin or just plain lies.