tandou: One was for 80m for water from a property called Tandou, south of Menindee, according to The Guardian. Tandou was owned by Webster Ltd, a company controlled by the businessman Chris Corrigan. The buybacks of water using funds allocated for purchasing environmental water under the Murray-Darling Basin plan have been controversial because they proceeded without open tender and, once announced, were criticised because of the reliability of the water purchased. Documents uncovered by the Senate reveal that the NSW Office of Water, then headed by Gavin Hanlon, played a crucial role in pushing for that deal to go ahead. Instead it would reach the savings by shrinking the lakes and reducing evaporation. Coalition pledges water licence buy back after report into Darling River fish kills Read more New South Wales was keen for the federal government to buy Tandou's water because it helped clear the way for the Menindee Lakes project, which would allow NSW to reach its target for environmental water without having to buy any from irrigators.
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