Menindee residents hijacked NSW Regional Water Minister Niall Blair's press conference on the banks of the Darling River today, to vent their frustrations about the latest mass fish kill there.
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| The Darling River at Menindee is blanketed with dead fish again. |
The town in the state's far west has been at the centre of a continuing ecological disaster, amid a spate of fish deaths there in the past two months.
Locals shouted over each other to ask Mr Blair questions, after they woke to shocking images of hundreds of thousands of fish floating on the Darling River.
"The lakes were full!" one yelled before another shouted: "Youse let it go ... What are you going to do about the cotton?”
People in the outback town blame the crisis on water use by cotton irrigators, as well as the Murray-Darling Basin Authority's decision to empty the nearby Menindee Lakes in 2014 and 2017.
Read the ABC News story by Nour Haydar and Paige Cockburn - “Menindee fish deaths 'out of NSW Government's hands' says Regional Water Minister Niall Blair.”
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