A paper published in an international science journal criticises the NSW government over its handling of a $150 million project at the Menindee Lakes.
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"Even some of their earlier studies, in which I was involved in leading, one of those was not even considered in terms of their planning," he said. Farmer Rachel Strachan lives downstream of the lakes, between Pooncarie and Wentworth, and was the vice-chair of the Stakeholder Advisory Committee. "I don't remember once where we were re-issued a report with what we felt was incorrectly stated in what the information we were providing."
"It was just a dictatorship of what they were wanting to push through and a complete disregard of the realities and the facts of what was happening."
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