THE latest revelations about the use of Murray River water in South Australia should be of huge concern to all Australians.
At a time when we are being told more water is needed for the environment, SA has announced it will pipe water from the Murray River at Morgan to Whyalla, west of Port Augusta, for a proposed hydrogen plant that is due to be operational in 2025.
When advising SA Parliament of the proposal, its Energy Minister Tom Koutsantonis said using the river’s water for the hydrogen plant should not come as a shock because “almost every industrial purpose in South Australia takes water from the River Murray. It’s where we get all our water from, so this would be no different”.
And here we all were, believing the rhetoric over two decades that South Australia needed vast quantities of Murray River water to protect its environment.
This has long been considered a scam in many quarters, and now the truth has come home to roost.
Lloyd Polkinghorne
Barham, NSW
