Today the NSW Upper House will debate disallowing floodplain harvesting regulations for a 4th time. If you're still in doubt about whether the Government's FPH rules will protect the environment, here are some emails from the latest documents received by the house. #nswpol
The Environment Minister @James_HGriffin has called the rules a ‘commitment to a good environmental outcome. Here his office admits that the rules will have little impact on FPH take and have been reduced as much as possible. 
The Director of the Healthy Floodplain Project Delivery said the quiet part out loud and admitted that the flow targets are about ‘improved optics’ and do nothing for the environment.
Shockingly the Water Minister @Kevinandersonmp's department removed references to critical human needs or river connectivity from the draft water sharing plans.
These emails just confirm what most of us know. Regulating floodplain harvesting has never been about protecting the environment/downstream communities. It’s about giving property rights worth hundreds of millions of dollars to the National Party’s big irrigator mates up north.
A big thanks to @MaryanneSlatte1 for trawling through these documents to find these damning emails.
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