Cost of saving river basin revealedBy Gabrielle Dunlevy
The cost of saving the Murray-Darling Basin has been laid out for the first time - $3 billion in water buybacks, and the loss of $805 million in agricultural production a year and at least 800 jobs.
Farmers are outraged, predicting a wide scale walkout from rural Australia if the water cutbacks go ahead.
They warn the economic modelling in the Murray-Darling Basin Authority's (MDBA) guide is way off, and the true cost in both production and jobs will be much higher than predicted.
The MDBA, the independent body working out how to restore balance to the food bowl, released a guide to its controversial plan on Friday in Canberra.
While farmers and conservationists agree the amount of water currently taken out of the river system for human use is unsustainable, they are divided on how to solve the problem.
The clawback of 27 to 37 per cent of water amounts to an additional 3000 to 4000 gigalitres of surface water annually.
It could have gone as high as 7700 gigalitres, but MDBA chairman Mike Taylor said the social and economic costs would have been "beyond management".
The authority predicts the cuts would reduce irrigated production by 1.1 per cent in the long term, with a loss of about 800 full-time jobs.
But Mr Taylor admitted more work was needed to better predict the economic and social effects.
"We do not think those economic models are satisfactory for dealing with what localised impacts are likely to be," he told reporters in Canberra.
"They are likely to be quite significantly higher than the sorts of numbers that come out of those general equilibrium models."
National Irrigators Council chief Danny O'Brien said the guide spelt "disaster" to Australian agriculture.
"To say that you can take out 30 per cent of the main input to irrigated agriculture in the basin and cost just 800 jobs or one per cent (of production) does not pass the laugh test," he said.
"That is a joke. The authority needs to go back to the drawing board and do more work on the social and economic modelling because it simply doesn't stack up."
The modelling underpinning the guide was not released on Friday, but is expected to come out by the month's end.
But models by the NSW Irrigators Council show it would cost 17,000 jobs in NSW alone, with a $2.4 billion annual loss to the economy.
The National Farmers Federation says the fate of the plan ultimately is in the hands of federal Water Minister Tony Burke, who must now engage with the producers of 40 per cent of the nation's food.
Spokesman Laurie Arthur said the government, with its new focus on regional Australia, would have to reconcile that with the new plan.
"A lot of people will conclude that they won't be able to go forward, so there's a real anomaly between investing in our rural communities and pulling the wealth out of them," he said.
The regions expected to suffer the worst economic impact are Murrumbidgee in the southern basin, and Moonie and Gwydir in the northern basin.
The federal government has committed to buying back the water needed to meet the target, which could cost more than $3 billion.
The authority estimates the gap, based on water purchased by state and commonwealth governments to June 30, at 2295 to 3295 gigalitres.
They could also invest in capital works to recover the water.
The plan in its current form would send a long-term average flow of up to 7700 gigalitres through the Murray mouth compared with the 5100 gigalitres expected now.
The mouth would be open between 90 and 92 per cent of the time, compared with 64 per cent under current arrangements.
Declining populations of water birds would stabilise, river red gums would be healthier, as would native fish such as the Murray cod.
The Australian Conservation Foundation's Dr Arlene Harriss-Buchan would prefer the upper end of the range, 4000 gigalitres, targeted.
"A re-allocation of 3000 gigalitres, there would be only a low probability of meeting all of our environmental targets and objectives all of the time," she said
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"It's also premised on looking at a future climate scenario which is in the wetter range of likelihood."
The proposed basin plan will be released later in 2010 or early in 2011, the guide says, with consultation before and after. End of Quote
What is the overall plan?
FOOD CONTROLLED BY THE ANTICHRIST
There was one stage that the spokesperson for the NWO, Henry Kissinger, had said that if you control energy you control nations and if you control food you control individuals.
The nation's energy has been sold overseas so that is gone forever, and we are being controlled from overseas for our energy requirements, meaning that they are able to charge us whatever they like for the essential services such as gas, water and electricity, as they are now doing.
So what's next that needs to be brought under total subversion so that the nation and its individuals could be totally controlled from the cradle to the grave.
The answer to that is relatively simple, the food, or the food supplies.
That is what the Murray River Basin plan recently unveiled by the Federal Government is all about - controlling the food so that the planners behind the World Government can control individuals.
What will be the result of this plan?
All of what l have mentioned forehand will be handed over to the Antichrist and that plan together with his microchip implant will mean that he will have total control over the entirety of mankind.
After all when our food is being supplied from the EU and he controls the EU he effectively controls the nation.
THE BLACK HORSE
Revelation Chapter 6 and Verses 5 to 6
And when he had opened the third seal, I heard the third beast say, Come and see. And I beheld, and lo a black horse; and he that sat on him had a pair of balances in his hand." "And I heard a voice in the midst of the four beasts say, A measure of wheat for a penny, and three measures of barley for a penny; and [see] thou hurt not the oil and the wine".
The Third Seal: A Black Horse - Rampant inflation - a common aftermath of war - Famine is suggested by John's words, "A quart of wheat for a denarius, and three quarts of barley for a denarius; and do not harm the oil and the wine."
After the large war mentioned in Revelation Chapter 6, Verse 3 - the red horse - the Antichrist takes control of the food and dishes it out to those that he wishes to live at the same time denying it to those that he wishes to perish, more than likely the Christians?
This could be a message of hard times for all of mankind. "black" symbolizes:
woe
mourning
terrible times
famine, physical or spiritual
evil
opposite of goodness
everything that opposes God
There will not be a rapture until the seven years of tribulation have passed so Christian Saints will be saved IN the famine and not FROM the famine. Noah was saved IN the flood, not FROM the flood. God can rain manna from heaven if necessary. I believe God will set up places of refuge where believers can run, so they can have physical and spiritual food.
God will not forsake the righteous.
