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Don’t Damn the Macquarie
Healthy Rivers Dubbo produced this ad for regional TV to educate the community on the dangers of a new re-regulating weir on the Macquarie River. This weir will catch important tributary flows and make them available for irrigation, depriving the river, Macquarie Marshes and downstream communities vital flows. -
Macquarie community rallies for the River.
Healthy Rivers Dubbo has launched a community powered campaign featuring television, radio and newspaper advertisements
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Stop the Macquarie re-regulating weir at Gin Gin
The proposed re regulating weir at Gin Gin, between Narromine and Warren on the Macquarie River would be a disaster for our rivers and downstream communities. -
Revive Our Rivers
All around the Murray Darling people are calling for more buy backs of water to revive our rivers.
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No New Weir at Gin Gin
Don’t Damn the Macquarie
Revive Our Rivers
The Murray Mouth
Floodplain Harvesting Inquiry
Submission Select Committee on Floodplain Harvesting HRD is grateful for the opportunity to contribute to the Select Committee on Floodplain Harvesting (the inquiry). We wish to express our gratitude to all Representatives who were involved in the two disallowance motions…
Media Release – Govt Inquiry highlights worry over Gin Gin dam
Media Release Wednesday 28th July 2021 Government Inquiry highlights worry over Gin Gin dam impacts A parliamentary committee report looking at the controversial proposal to build a large ‘re-regulating’ dam in the Macquarie Rivers at Gin Gin was released today.…
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Healthy Rivers Dubbo Public Meeting – June 2021
The Healthy Rivers Dubbo Alliance facilitated a public meeting about the proposed Gin Gin dam project on the Macquarie-Wambuul River. Watch: Introduction (Mel Gray, facilitator) start to 7.30 Tony Lees (Trangie) 7.30 to 12.55 Professor Richard Kingsford (UNSW Centre for…
Media coverage of Public Meeting about Gin Gin dam proposal
Listen to an interview on ABC Western Plains about the Gin Gin dam proposal and the Public Meeting listen from 5.43. Read an article from the Dubbo Photo News 17/6/21 about the Public Meeting Read an article from Dubbo’s Daily…
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Professor Richard Kingsford to speak in Dubbo
The proposed Gin Gin dam plans were slammed last year by the NSW Government as they “do not currently demonstrate value for money and an efficient, effective and prudent use of public funds.” The proposal does not stack up economically,…
Gin Gin re-regulating dam plans slammed by NSW Government.
Last year in an assessment of the project plans for the Gin Gin dam (Macquarie River re-regulating storage project) the Deputy Secretary of DPIE Water Jim Bentley said the project plans had significant deficiencies, and did not meet the requirements…
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