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Fleur Connick

February 2024

  • For Menindee fish kill feature with Barkandji traditional owners by Otis Filley. Dead fish in the Darling-Baaka River. NSW. Australia

    The rural network
    ‘The river has been destroyed’: expert says agriculture has overshadowed science in the Murray-Darling Basin

    An ecologist who spent 36 years with NSW Fisheries says scientists working for the government are ‘aghast’ at the state of the Darling River but can’t speak publicly

January 2024

  • Dead fish in the Darling-Baaka River at Menindee in far western NSW, Australia, in March 2023

    The rural network
    Menindee fish kills: inconsistent pesticide levels sparks calls for review of water testing methods

    Experts call for review after two sets of water samples from the Darling-Baaka River reported by the state’s top scientific bodies contained different results

December 2023

  • Dr Ian Wright inspects a tank on a property near the Cadia goldmine holding water suspected of being contaminated by mercury.

    The rural network
    Rainwater tank testing near NSW’s Cadia goldmine finds unsafe levels of mercury

  • Dissolved oxygen levels in the Darling-Baaka River at Menindee have dropped below 1 milligram a litre – the lowest reading since April.

    The rural network
    ‘Bracing for another fish kill’: locals sound the alarm as water quality drops at Menindee

October 2023

  • A sign opposed to a waste incinerator site in Tarago, NSW

    The rural network
    ‘Leaking trucks’ and ‘rotten egg gas’: Veolia’s waste project plan has Tarago furious

    Residents of the small NSW town do not trust the company to safely operate the waste-capture facility planned for nearby

September 2023

  • A water tank on a farm near Forest Reefs approximately 8km from the Cadia mining operations and 20kms south of Orange in the Central Tablelands of NSW.

    The rural network
    Rainwater sampling near Cadia goldmine ‘not fit for purpose’, inquiry hears

  • Supplied image of the Edward River in Deniliquin. NSW Australia

    The rural network
    ‘Serious misinformation’ on the voice has stirred up racist attitudes, elders say

August 2023

  • A white plume shows venting of the underground mining operations at Cadia East goldmine, near Orange, NSW

    The rural network
    Emissions from dust pollution from Cadia goldmine ‘not adequately regulated’, expert says

    Dr Ian Wright, who advises the NSW EPA, says failure of licence conditions to explicitly state discharge limits for heavy metals in air pollution is inadequate

July 2023

  • Moonahcullah Aboriginal Station

    The rural network
    ‘We just stopped using it’: bringing back an Indigenous language through children’s books

  • Cadia Valley Operations staff at the crusher dump pocket in a working shaft off the main decline portal of Newcrest's Cadia East Gold Mine.

    The rural network
    Newcrest’s lead contamination claims ‘inconsistent’ with expert report findings, its author says

  • LNP's Cameron Caldwell and wife Lauren vote in the Fadden byelection

    Australia news live
    Government ‘realistic’ about chances in Fadden – as it happened

  • The open cut pit at Newcrest's Cadia Gold Mine. Thursday 7th July 2023. Photograph by Mike Bowers.Guardian Australia July 2023. Photograph by Mike Bowers.Guardian Australia

    The rural network
    Inside Cadia, the NSW goldmine at the centre of an environmental dust-up

  • The rural network
    Cadia goldmine could be source of some lead found in water tanks, miner says

  • The rural network
    ‘There’s already anxiety’: residents living near Cadia goldmine demand answers on dust pollution

June 2023

  • The Cadia Hill goldmine

    The rural network
    NSW Health tells GPs not to blanket test residents living near Cadia hill goldmine

  • File photo of aerial shot over Cadia goldmine in Australia in 2016

    The rural network
    ‘Completely unacceptable’: dust from Newcrest Cadia goldmine 11 times the regulatory limit

  • Newcrest’s Cadia goldmine in central west NSW, Australia

    The rural network
    Newcrest’s Cadia goldmine fails to meet clean air standards, NSW EPA finds

  • A build up of sand at Fisherman's Bend in Murray River, a short distance upstream of Picnic Point and the Barmah Choke.

    The rural network
    A giant ‘sand slug’ born from mining and land clearing is slowly choking the Murray River

  • The rural network
    EPA begins free rainwater testing near Cadia goldmine

  • The rural network
    Something in the water: heavy metal contamination near NSW goldmine has health experts worried

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