30/01/2019
My partner shared this on her page and Facebook removed it, WHY?
Today's photo share:
Chinese owned Cubbie Station cotton farm - where irrigation channels are bigger than the river itself
"Cubbie Station, the largest irrigation property in the southern hemisphere, is located near Dirranbandi, in south west Queensland, Australia. The station comprises 96,000 hectares (240,000 acres) and is managed by the Lempriere Group, on behalf of CS Agriculture, a joint venture between Lempriere and Shandong Ruyi, a textile manufacturer owned by investors from China and Japan.
The station has significant water rights to flows along the Culgoa River, within the Murray-Darling basin."
"The station was created by amalgamating twelve floodplain properties to give Cubbie a total of fifty-one licences.[3] The station's water storage dams stretch for more than 28 kilometres (17 mi) along the Culgoa River, within the Murray-Darling basin. In an average year the station uses 200,000 megalitres (7,100×106 cu ft) of water, in a good year as much as 500,000 megalitres (18,000×106 cu ft).
The water is used to supply 130 square kilometres (50 sq mi) of irrigated cotton and other crops including wheat, which generates a net profit in the range of A$50 million to A$80 million a year.[4][5]
The station is licensed to take 460,000 megalitres (16,000×106 cu ft),[3] the equivalent of all irrigation entitlements downstream in north-western NSW.[3] The property has the capacity to grow 200 square kilometres (77 sq mi) of cotton. In 2006, the dams on the property were filled to 1% capacity allowing for only 200 hectares (490 acres) of cotton planting.[6] The station is often derided for its large water usage requirements in a time of extreme drought in Australia and damage to the Murray Darling river system[7]
Good enough for Ministers to use Wikipedia - good enough for this page! From:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cubbie_Station
