A South Australian senator says taxpayers could end up footing the bill to fix an environmental disaster caused by hypersalinity at a mangrove site north of Adelaide.
A South Australian senator has warned that taxpayers could end up footing the bill to fix an environmental disaster in the St Kilda mangroves, north of Adelaide.Senator Rex Patrick is concerned taxpayers could foot the bill for a future clean-up operation
"I suspect remediating 28 kilometres of salt ponds is going to run into the tens of millions of dollars. "The Marshall Government inherited that situation from Labor, and has made it clear to the site owner that a bond would now be required should there be a change to the plan under which the site is managed," it said.
"All of the salt that the EPA pumped up hill in those ponds last summer has washed down and is now right against those embankments.There are some green shoots amongst the dead mangroves.
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