A billion-dollar package to upgrade or build new dams in drought-afflicted NSW regions is expected to put"bulldozers in the ground" next year, the Liberal National Party has said.The cost of the project will be split evenly between the state and federal governmentsAustralian Prime Minister Scott Morrison and NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian today announced a joint investment between the federal and state governments for"priority large-scale water infrastructure projects".
Up to $650 million has been flagged to upgrade the Wyangala Dam in the state's central west and $480 million will go to the new Dungowan Dam near Tamworth. The Wyangala upgrade includes raising the dam wall by 10 metres and Dungowan will be the first new dam in NSW for more than 30 years. "These projects don't happen overnight but we're working as quickly as possible to get all the necessary work done so we can start digging," Mr Morrison said.
Maybe we could consider not letting long wall mining be approved directly under the existing damns like Woronora in the Sutherland Shire SuthShireCncl
I am opening another bank account so I can have more money 💰
a bit of common sense for a change.
$1 bn, about the same we pay you folks to ve independent, so independent you’d investigate the panama papers.
Please add 'in Barnaby Joyce & Angus Taylor's' electorates.
And in whose electorates are the dams in and where is the water to fill them going to come from? Where are the impact assessments?
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