More 'fish kills' likely if Darling River is not 'urgently' cleaned-up: expert

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Up to one million dead fish in far western NSW need to be 'urgently' removed from the river before another wave of deaths is triggered, a scientist has warned.

 

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ItsBouquet ScottMorrisonMP where is the call for a royal commission into this Maybe they will uncover corruption and mismanagement on a massive scale by LNP is that why you are not vocal?

ItsBouquet How fitting that the only fish that remain are mostly carp.

Hello ScottMorrisonMP hello GladysB are you going to say something about this? deafeningsilence Auspol

The rot in both NSW & Canberra responsible for this catastrophe will be removed in 2 upcoming elections. Barnaby Morrison GlaysB

Where are the leaders on this!!!. Seems like they are all ducking This surly won’t be forgotten at the elections 🤔🙄

Jail, jail, jail.

This isn't'climatechange'it's 'ClimateEngineering Geoengineering WeatherModification ' HAARP'S emf ionospheric heaters that have been ongoing for many years' seeding GlobalWarming / this mob BOM_au knows the damage SRM is causing.. so does PM ScottMorrisonMP. agchatoz

You only report when it's too late! You called us 'conspiracy theorists' when we warned you about this toxic ongoing global 'Geoengineering' & 'TurnbullMalcolm's HAARP'S EMF'..' Is destroying our waters / environment'now SRM confirmed' will you make it public? agchatoz.

Which no doubt the taxpayers will have to pay for while the actual perpetrators of the disaster get off scott free 🙄

Our government at work. Graft and corruption by politicians bowing to big business. Our country destroyed by these elected morons.

Barnaby Joyce says “We’ll pay 10 cents a fish delivered to David Littleproud’s office”. auspol

Barnaby’s mess National voters fault-auspol

Barnaby_Joyce is free these days , ask him to do it. his mess anyway auspol

The river system has collapsed - better call in god to start again.

marcialangton i’m surprised there would be any living creatures left in that rotting algal mess the irrigators have left there for someone else to clean up. externalities

MSMWatchdog2013 You know the old (now unfashionable) 'They aughta put a bomb under...'? I know where. Cubbie Station Weir.

annaclarity FFS. People must go to jail.

But what do scientists know? Better to ask Barnaby_Joyce

Did you count them ?

What happens to that biomass once its removed though? Thats a huge loss of nutrients from an ecosysyem.

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