Wilcannia Weir

The site of the proposed new weir on the Darling river at Wilcannia. Inset: Member for Barwon Roy Butler. Photos TWH

The Wilcannia Weir project is back in the spotlight, with renewed hope that this important piece of infrastructure may yet rise from the ashes. After successive broken promises, funds withdrawals and dead-ends, there is renewed enthusiasm for the reconstruction project.

Member for Barwon Roy Butler said the Wilcannia Weir, to date, had been a debacle, but there was good news on the horizon.

“The most recent discussion I have had with Water Minister Rose Jackson was following the delivery of an independent review of the weir proposal,” Mr Butler said.

“The review panel was led by James McTavish and Geoff Wise and they delivered their findings to the Minister, finding that the Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water had behaved in an ordinary fashion, that it had not been honest, that not all the information had been presented to people and that information had been stonewalled. […]

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