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River with 1800 times safe level of PFAS needs urgent testing

Greens MP and water and mining spokesperson Cate Faehrmann says the Government must urgently carry out testing of the Belubula River, make the results public and act to clean up the source, after extensive PFAS contamination has been discovered in the Belubula River near the Cadia Gold Mine.

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Cotton Industry

Ms Cate Faehrmann: I recently made a trip to north-western New South Wales, along the Macquarie, Namoi and Barwon-Darling rivers. I witnessed irrigated cotton production on a scale I could not previously imagine. I drove past cotton modules lined up for kilometre after kilometre. Some say that this is a...

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Walgett Water Supply

Ms Cate Faehrmann: My question is directed to the Minister for Water. In May last year the Minister described the Walgett water supply as unpalatable and undrinkable, and she gave the community a commitment that she would switch it over to treated river water as soon as she could. 

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Current and potential impacts of gold, silver, lead and zinc mining on human health, land, air and water quality in NSW.

Ms Cate Faehrmann: I will be the second member—and the second Greens member—to speak on the report entitled Current and potential impacts of gold, silver, lead and zinc mining on human health, land, air and water quality in New South Wales. We will get to what I think is the reason...

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Menindee Lakes and Floodplain Harvesting - Question Without Notice

Ms CATE FAEHRMANN: My question is directed to the Minister for Water. The Minister said that one of the actions she would take in response to the Chief Scientist's report into the fish kills in the Darling‑Baaka River would be: Considering Section 324 temporary water restrictions to restrict low priority licences...

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Coastal Harvestable Rights - motion

I oppose the motion by the Opposition. From the outset, this exemplifies how Coalition members do water and how they did policy for the 12 years they were in government. They seeing water falling, hear what their mates are asking for and put in place measures to please those mates....

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Dam funding - Motion

I oppose the motion moved by the Hon. Sarah Mitchell about building dams. The policy that the Coalition, particularly the National Party, has put forward every single year for 12 years and longer all through the country is to build more dams. But in 2019 the National Party at both...

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Chief Scientist Fish Kill Report: Government must act on Roadmap to Restore Darling-Baaka & Menindee

The full release of the NSW Chief Scientist & Engineer’s Independent review into the 2023 fish deaths in the Darling-Baaka River at Menindee provides a roadmap for returning the Darling-Baaka River and Menindee Lakes to health, said NSW Greens MP and spokesperson for water, Cate Faehrmann.

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Fish Kill Report Must Force Overhaul of Water Department: Greens

The NSW Chief Scientist & Engineer’s finding that mass fish deaths in the Darling-Baaka River was due to the failure of existing legal environmental protections in water law not being enforced or implemented should warrant an overhaul of the NSW Water Department, says Greens MP and water spokesperson Cate Faehrmann.

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Record Fine for Illegal Water Take Proof Mining has No Place in Sydney Water Catchment

The announcement today by the Natural Resources Access Regulator (NRAR) that it has entered into an enforceable undertaking with Illawarra Coal Holdings of almost $3 million compensation for illegally taking surface water without a licence is yet another reason why mining has no place in Sydney’s drinking water catchment, Greens...

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