❓ WA Gov response to QoN regarding salt-affected land, outlining affected areas, existing schemes, expenditure, and federal support. Mentions maps, programs, and funding details.
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The Government recently noted the need to address the problems associated with the significant area of salt-affected land in Western Australia. (1) Will the minister provide a map showing the areas in - (a) the agricultural region; and (b) other regions; that are salt-affected, and the respective approximate area in hectares that this represents? (2) What schemes does the Government have in place to address this salt problem? (3) How much has been expended by the Government on addressing this salt problem in each of the past five years? (4) Is any federal Government support available to address this salt problem; and, if so, what is the nature of this support? Hon KIM CHANCE
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I thank the member for some notice of this question. (1) (a) A number of maps are available showing areas affected by salinity. At the broader scale are the maps prepared by the National Land and Water Resources Audit 2000. Those maps cover the non-pastoral areas and show areas of high, medium and low risk for 2000, as well as the prediction for 2020 and 2050. The audit identified that in 2000, some 4.3 million hectares of land in the agricultural region were at high risk of developing salinity. Of this area, about 1.8 million hectares had already developed salinity to the extent that it was reducing the production of normal crops and pastures. I will table a relatively poor quality version of the maps; however, I will undertake to try to get original colour versions of the maps for Hon George Cash, because the black and white maps are very hard to read. More detailed maps at a scale of 1:50 000 are available through the land monitor project, which show some one million hectares of severely salt-affected land. There are 125 AO-size maps covering the agricultural region. [See paper No 2109.] (b) Salinity induced by changed land use in pastoral areas is not significant. (2) The prime government approach to salinity, as outlined in the salinity strategy of March 2000, is still current. I seek leave to have the rest of the answer to (2) incorporated into Hansard . Leave granted. The following material was incorporated - __________________________________________________________________________________________ The following programs within departments address salinity: Catchment appraisal Catchment demonstration Environmental objectives for catchments Farm forestry and revegetation Remnant vegetation on crown lands Commercial tree crop development Farming systems development Engineering water management Engineering options evaluation Information dissemination and training Rural infrastructure Water resource recovery catchments Biodiversity recovery catchments Salinity monitoring Water resource monitoring Wetlands and native vegetation monitoring __________________________________________________________________________________________ Hon KIM CHANCE: The answer continues - (3) State government consolidated fund expenditure on salinity over the past five years has totalled $160.4 million. Amounts for individual years beginning in 1999-2000 are $37.6 million, $32.3 million, $31.4 million, $30.2 million and $29 million. That accounts for consolidated fund expenditure and not expenditure by non-consolidated fund agencies such as the Forest Products Commission and Western Power. (4) The Australian Government has provided past support principally through the national land care component of the Natural Heritage Trust. It will also match the $158 million the State is contributing to the National Action Plan for Salinity and Water Quality. Support under the NAP will be directed to the regional natural resource management groups to assist in implementing their regional strategies.
(1) Will the minister provide a map showing the areas in - (a) the agricultural region; and (b) other regions; that are salt-affected, and the respective approximate area in hectares that this represents? (2) What schemes does the Government have in place to address this salt problem? (3) How much has been expended by the Government on addressing this salt problem in each of the past five years? (4) Is any federal Government support available to address this salt problem; and, if so, what is the nature of this support? Hon KIM CHANCE replied : I thank the member for some notice of this question. (1) (a) A number of maps are available showing areas affected by salinity. At the broader scale are the maps prepared by the National Land and Water Resources Audit 2000. Those maps cover the non-pastoral areas and show areas of high, medium and low risk for 2000, as well as the prediction for 2020 and 2050. The audit identified that in 2000, some 4.3 million hectares of land in the agricultural region were at high risk of developing salinity. Of this area, about 1.8 million hectares had already developed salinity to the extent that it was reducing the production of normal crops and pastures. I will table a relatively poor quality version of the maps; however, I will undertake to try to get original colour versions of the maps for Hon George Cash, because the black and white maps are very hard to read. More detailed maps at a scale of 1:50 000 are available through the land monitor project, which show some one million hectares of severely salt-affected land. There are 125 AO-size maps covering the agricultural region. [See paper No 2109.] (b) Salinity induced by changed land use in pastoral areas is not significant. (2) The prime government approach to salinity, as outlined in the salinity strategy of March 2000, is still current. I seek leave to have the rest of the answer to (2) incorporated into Hansard . Leave granted. The following material was incorporated - __________________________________________________________________________________________ The following programs within departments address salinity: Catchment appraisal Catchment demonstration Environmental objectives for catchments Farm forestry and revegetation Remnant vegetation on crown lands Commercial tree crop development Farming systems development Engineering water management Engineering options evaluation Information dissemination and training Rural infrastructure Water resource recovery catchments Biodiversity recovery catchments Salinity monitoring Water resource monitoring Wetlands and native vegetation monitoring __________________________________________________________________________________________ Hon KIM CHANCE: The answer continues - (3) State government consolidated fund expenditure on salinity over the past five years has totalled $160.4 million. Amounts for individual years beginning in 1999-2000 are $37.6 million, $32.3 million, $31.4 million, $30.2 million and $29 million. That accounts for consolidated fund expenditure and not expenditure by non-consolidated fund agencies such as the Forest Products Commission and Western Power. (4) The Australian Government has provided past support principally through the national land care component of the Natural Heritage Trust. It will also match the $158 million the State is contributing to the National Action Plan for Salinity and Water Quality. Support under the NAP will be directed to the regional natural resource management groups to assist in implementing their regional strategies.
(b) other regions; that are salt-affected, and the respective approximate area in hectares that this represents?
that are salt-affected, and the respective approximate area in hectares that this represents?
(3) How much has been expended by the Government on addressing this salt problem in each of the past five years? (4) Is any federal Government support available to address this salt problem; and, if so, what is the nature of this support? Hon KIM CHANCE replied : I thank the member for some notice of this question. (1) (a) A number of maps are available showing areas affected by salinity. At the broader scale are the maps prepared by the National Land and Water Resources Audit 2000. Those maps cover the non-pastoral areas and show areas of high, medium and low risk for 2000, as well as the prediction for 2020 and 2050. The audit identified that in 2000, some 4.3 million hectares of land in the agricultural region were at high risk of developing salinity. Of this area, about 1.8 million hectares had already developed salinity to the extent that it was reducing the production of normal crops and pastures. I will table a relatively poor quality version of the maps; however, I will undertake to try to get original colour versions of the maps for Hon George Cash, because the black and white maps are very hard to read. More detailed maps at a scale of 1:50 000 are available through the land monitor project, which show some one million hectares of severely salt-affected land. There are 125 AO-size maps covering the agricultural region. [See paper No 2109.] (b) Salinity induced by changed land use in pastoral areas is not significant. (2) The prime government approach to salinity, as outlined in the salinity strategy of March 2000, is still current. I seek leave to have the rest of the answer to (2) incorporated into Hansard . Leave granted. The following material was incorporated - __________________________________________________________________________________________ The following programs within departments address salinity: Catchment appraisal Catchment demonstration Environmental objectives for catchments Farm forestry and revegetation Remnant vegetation on crown lands Commercial tree crop development Farming systems development Engineering water management Engineering options evaluation Information dissemination and training Rural infrastructure Water resource recovery catchments Biodiversity recovery catchments Salinity monitoring Water resource monitoring Wetlands and native vegetation monitoring __________________________________________________________________________________________ Hon KIM CHANCE: The answer continues - (3) State government consolidated fund expenditure on salinity over the past five years has totalled $160.4 million. Amounts for individual years beginning in 1999-2000 are $37.6 million, $32.3 million, $31.4 million, $30.2 million and $29 million. That accounts for consolidated fund expenditure and not expenditure by non-consolidated fund agencies such as the Forest Products Commission and Western Power. (4) The Australian Government has provided past support principally through the national land care component of the Natural Heritage Trust. It will also match the $158 million the State is contributing to the National Action Plan for Salinity and Water Quality. Support under the NAP will be directed to the regional natural resource management groups to assist in implementing their regional strategies.
(4) Is any federal Government support available to address this salt problem; and, if so, what is the nature of this support? Hon KIM CHANCE replied : I thank the member for some notice of this question. (1) (a) A number of maps are available showing areas affected by salinity. At the broader scale are the maps prepared by the National Land and Water Resources Audit 2000. Those maps cover the non-pastoral areas and show areas of high, medium and low risk for 2000, as well as the prediction for 2020 and 2050. The audit identified that in 2000, some 4.3 million hectares of land in the agricultural region were at high risk of developing salinity. Of this area, about 1.8 million hectares had already developed salinity to the extent that it was reducing the production of normal crops and pastures. I will table a relatively poor quality version of the maps; however, I will undertake to try to get original colour versions of the maps for Hon George Cash, because the black and white maps are very hard to read. More detailed maps at a scale of 1:50 000 are available through the land monitor project, which show some one million hectares of severely salt-affected land. There are 125 AO-size maps covering the agricultural region. [See paper No 2109.] (b) Salinity induced by changed land use in pastoral areas is not significant. (2) The prime government approach to salinity, as outlined in the salinity strategy of March 2000, is still current. I seek leave to have the rest of the answer to (2) incorporated into Hansard . Leave granted. The following material was incorporated - __________________________________________________________________________________________ The following programs within departments address salinity: Catchment appraisal Catchment demonstration Environmental objectives for catchments Farm forestry and revegetation Remnant vegetation on crown lands Commercial tree crop development Farming systems development Engineering water management Engineering options evaluation Information dissemination and training Rural infrastructure Water resource recovery catchments Biodiversity recovery catchments Salinity monitoring Water resource monitoring Wetlands and native vegetation monitoring __________________________________________________________________________________________ Hon KIM CHANCE: The answer continues - (3) State government consolidated fund expenditure on salinity over the past five years has totalled $160.4 million. Amounts for individual years beginning in 1999-2000 are $37.6 million, $32.3 million, $31.4 million, $30.2 million and $29 million. That accounts for consolidated fund expenditure and not expenditure by non-consolidated fund agencies such as the Forest Products Commission and Western Power. (4) The Australian Government has provided past support principally through the national land care component of the Natural Heritage Trust. It will also match the $158 million the State is contributing to the National Action Plan for Salinity and Water Quality. Support under the NAP will be directed to the regional natural resource management groups to assist in implementing their regional strategies.
Hon KIM CHANCE replied : I thank the member for some notice of this question. (1) (a) A number of maps are available showing areas affected by salinity. At the broader scale are the maps prepared by the National Land and Water Resources Audit 2000. Those maps cover the non-pastoral areas and show areas of high, medium and low risk for 2000, as well as the prediction for 2020 and 2050. The audit identified that in 2000, some 4.3 million hectares of land in the agricultural region were at high risk of developing salinity. Of this area, about 1.8 million hectares had already developed salinity to the extent that it was reducing the production of normal crops and pastures. I will table a relatively poor quality version of the maps; however, I will undertake to try to get original colour versions of the maps for Hon George Cash, because the black and white maps are very hard to read. More detailed maps at a scale of 1:50 000 are available through the land monitor project, which show some one million hectares of severely salt-affected land. There are 125 AO-size maps covering the agricultural region. [See paper No 2109.] (b) Salinity induced by changed land use in pastoral areas is not significant. (2) The prime government approach to salinity, as outlined in the salinity strategy of March 2000, is still current. I seek leave to have the rest of the answer to (2) incorporated into Hansard . Leave granted. The following material was incorporated - __________________________________________________________________________________________ The following programs within departments address salinity: Catchment appraisal Catchment demonstration Environmental objectives for catchments Farm forestry and revegetation Remnant vegetation on crown lands Commercial tree crop development Farming systems development Engineering water management Engineering options evaluation Information dissemination and training Rural infrastructure Water resource recovery catchments Biodiversity recovery catchments Salinity monitoring Water resource monitoring Wetlands and native vegetation monitoring __________________________________________________________________________________________ Hon KIM CHANCE: The answer continues - (3) State government consolidated fund expenditure on salinity over the past five years has totalled $160.4 million. Amounts for individual years beginning in 1999-2000 are $37.6 million, $32.3 million, $31.4 million, $30.2 million and $29 million. That accounts for consolidated fund expenditure and not expenditure by non-consolidated fund agencies such as the Forest Products Commission and Western Power. (4) The Australian Government has provided past support principally through the national land care component of the Natural Heritage Trust. It will also match the $158 million the State is contributing to the National Action Plan for Salinity and Water Quality. Support under the NAP will be directed to the regional natural resource management groups to assist in implementing their regional strategies.
I thank the member for some notice of this question. (1) (a) A number of maps are available showing areas affected by salinity. At the broader scale are the maps prepared by the National Land and Water Resources Audit 2000. Those maps cover the non-pastoral areas and show areas of high, medium and low risk for 2000, as well as the prediction for 2020 and 2050. The audit identified that in 2000, some 4.3 million hectares of land in the agricultural region were at high risk of developing salinity. Of this area, about 1.8 million hectares had already developed salinity to the extent that it was reducing the production of normal crops and pastures. I will table a relatively poor quality version of the maps; however, I will undertake to try to get original colour versions of the maps for Hon George Cash, because the black and white maps are very hard to read. More detailed maps at a scale of 1:50 000 are available through the land monitor project, which show some one million hectares of severely salt-affected land. There are 125 AO-size maps covering the agricultural region. [See paper No 2109.] (b) Salinity induced by changed land use in pastoral areas is not significant. (2) The prime government approach to salinity, as outlined in the salinity strategy of March 2000, is still current. I seek leave to have the rest of the answer to (2) incorporated into Hansard . Leave granted. The following material was incorporated - __________________________________________________________________________________________ The following programs within departments address salinity: Catchment appraisal Catchment demonstration Environmental objectives for catchments Farm forestry and revegetation Remnant vegetation on crown lands Commercial tree crop development Farming systems development Engineering water management Engineering options evaluation Information dissemination and training Rural infrastructure Water resource recovery catchments Biodiversity recovery catchments Salinity monitoring Water resource monitoring Wetlands and native vegetation monitoring __________________________________________________________________________________________ Hon KIM CHANCE: The answer continues - (3) State government consolidated fund expenditure on salinity over the past five years has totalled $160.4 million. Amounts for individual years beginning in 1999-2000 are $37.6 million, $32.3 million, $31.4 million, $30.2 million and $29 million. That accounts for consolidated fund expenditure and not expenditure by non-consolidated fund agencies such as the Forest Products Commission and Western Power. (4) The Australian Government has provided past support principally through the national land care component of the Natural Heritage Trust. It will also match the $158 million the State is contributing to the National Action Plan for Salinity and Water Quality. Support under the NAP will be directed to the regional natural resource management groups to assist in implementing their regional strategies.
(1) (a) A number of maps are available showing areas affected by salinity. At the broader scale are the maps prepared by the National Land and Water Resources Audit 2000. Those maps cover the non-pastoral areas and show areas of high, medium and low risk for 2000, as well as the prediction for 2020 and 2050. The audit identified that in 2000, some 4.3 million hectares of land in the agricultural region were at high risk of developing salinity. Of this area, about 1.8 million hectares had already developed salinity to the extent that it was reducing the production of normal crops and pastures. I will table a relatively poor quality version of the maps; however, I will undertake to try to get original colour versions of the maps for Hon George Cash, because the black and white maps are very hard to read. More detailed maps at a scale of 1:50 000 are available through the land monitor project, which show some one million hectares of severely salt-affected land. There are 125 AO-size maps covering the agricultural region. [See paper No 2109.] (b) Salinity induced by changed land use in pastoral areas is not significant. (2) The prime government approach to salinity, as outlined in the salinity strategy of March 2000, is still current. I seek leave to have the rest of the answer to (2) incorporated into Hansard . Leave granted. The following material was incorporated - __________________________________________________________________________________________ The following programs within departments address salinity: Catchment appraisal Catchment demonstration Environmental objectives for catchments Farm forestry and revegetation Remnant vegetation on crown lands Commercial tree crop development Farming systems development Engineering water management Engineering options evaluation Information dissemination and training Rural infrastructure Water resource recovery catchments Biodiversity recovery catchments Salinity monitoring Water resource monitoring Wetlands and native vegetation monitoring __________________________________________________________________________________________ Hon KIM CHANCE: The answer continues - (3) State government consolidated fund expenditure on salinity over the past five years has totalled $160.4 million. Amounts for individual years beginning in 1999-2000 are $37.6 million, $32.3 million, $31.4 million, $30.2 million and $29 million. That accounts for consolidated fund expenditure and not expenditure by non-consolidated fund agencies such as the Forest Products Commission and Western Power. (4) The Australian Government has provided past support principally through the national land care component of the Natural Heritage Trust. It will also match the $158 million the State is contributing to the National Action Plan for Salinity and Water Quality. Support under the NAP will be directed to the regional natural resource management groups to assist in implementing their regional strategies.
The following material was incorporated -
Catchment appraisal Catchment demonstration Environmental objectives for catchments Farm forestry and revegetation Remnant vegetation on crown lands Commercial tree crop development Farming systems development Engineering water management Engineering options evaluation Information dissemination and training Rural infrastructure Water resource recovery catchments Biodiversity recovery catchments Salinity monitoring Water resource monitoring Wetlands and native vegetation monitoring
Hon KIM CHANCE: The answer continues - (3) State government consolidated fund expenditure on salinity over the past five years has totalled $160.4 million. Amounts for individual years beginning in 1999-2000 are $37.6 million, $32.3 million, $31.4 million, $30.2 million and $29 million. That accounts for consolidated fund expenditure and not expenditure by non-consolidated fund agencies such as the Forest Products Commission and Western Power. (4) The Australian Government has provided past support principally through the national land care component of the Natural Heritage Trust. It will also match the $158 million the State is contributing to the National Action Plan for Salinity and Water Quality. Support under the NAP will be directed to the regional natural resource management groups to assist in implementing their regional strategies.
(3) State government consolidated fund expenditure on salinity over the past five years has totalled $160.4 million. Amounts for individual years beginning in 1999-2000 are $37.6 million, $32.3 million, $31.4 million, $30.2 million and $29 million. That accounts for consolidated fund expenditure and not expenditure by non-consolidated fund agencies such as the Forest Products Commission and Western Power. (4) The Australian Government has provided past support principally through the national land care component of the Natural Heritage Trust. It will also match the $158 million the State is contributing to the National Action Plan for Salinity and Water Quality. Support under the NAP will be directed to the regional natural resource management groups to assist in implementing their regional strategies.
(4) The Australian Government has provided past support principally through the national land care component of the Natural Heritage Trust. It will also match the $158 million the State is contributing to the National Action Plan for Salinity and Water Quality. Support under the NAP will be directed to the regional natural resource management groups to assist in implementing their regional strategies.
(1) Will the minister provide a map showing the areas in - (a) the agricultural region; and (b) other regions; that are salt-affected, and the respective approximate area in hectares that this represents? (2) What schemes does the Government have in place to address this salt problem? (3) How much has been expended by the Government on addressing this salt problem in each of the past five years? (4) Is any federal Government support available to address this salt problem; and, if so, what is the nature of this support? Hon KIM CHANCE replied : I thank the member for some notice of this question. (1) (a) A number of maps are available showing areas affected by salinity. At the broader scale are the maps prepared by the National Land and Water Resources Audit 2000. Those maps cover the non-pastoral areas and show areas of high, medium and low risk for 2000, as well as the prediction for 2020 and 2050. The audit identified that in 2000, some 4.3 million hectares of land in the agricultural region were at high risk of developing salinity. Of this area, about 1.8 million hectares had already developed salinity to the extent that it was reducing the production of normal crops and pastures. I will table a relatively poor quality version of the maps; however, I will undertake to try to get original colour versions of the maps for Hon George Cash, because the black and white maps are very hard to read. More detailed maps at a scale of 1:50 000 are available through the land monitor project, which show some one million hectares of severely salt-affected land. There are 125 AO-size maps covering the agricultural region. [See paper No 2109.] (b) Salinity induced by changed land use in pastoral areas is not significant. (2) The prime government approach to salinity, as outlined in the salinity strategy of March 2000, is still current. I seek leave to have the rest of the answer to (2) incorporated into Hansard . Leave granted. The following material was incorporated - __________________________________________________________________________________________ The following programs within departments address salinity: Catchment appraisal Catchment demonstration Environmental objectives for catchments Farm forestry and revegetation Remnant vegetation on crown lands Commercial tree crop development Farming systems development Engineering water management Engineering options evaluation Information dissemination and training Rural infrastructure Water resource recovery catchments Biodiversity recovery catchments Salinity monitoring Water resource monitoring Wetlands and native vegetation monitoring __________________________________________________________________________________________ Hon KIM CHANCE: The answer continues - (3) State government consolidated fund expenditure on salinity over the past five years has totalled $160.4 million. Amounts for individual years beginning in 1999-2000 are $37.6 million, $32.3 million, $31.4 million, $30.2 million and $29 million. That accounts for consolidated fund expenditure and not expenditure by non-consolidated fund agencies such as the Forest Products Commission and Western Power. (4) The Australian Government has provided past support principally through the national land care component of the Natural Heritage Trust. It will also match the $158 million the State is contributing to the National Action Plan for Salinity and Water Quality. Support under the NAP will be directed to the regional natural resource management groups to assist in implementing their regional strategies.
(b) other regions; that are salt-affected, and the respective approximate area in hectares that this represents?
that are salt-affected, and the respective approximate area in hectares that this represents?
(3) How much has been expended by the Government on addressing this salt problem in each of the past five years? (4) Is any federal Government support available to address this salt problem; and, if so, what is the nature of this support? Hon KIM CHANCE replied : I thank the member for some notice of this question. (1) (a) A number of maps are available showing areas affected by salinity. At the broader scale are the maps prepared by the National Land and Water Resources Audit 2000. Those maps cover the non-pastoral areas and show areas of high, medium and low risk for 2000, as well as the prediction for 2020 and 2050. The audit identified that in 2000, some 4.3 million hectares of land in the agricultural region were at high risk of developing salinity. Of this area, about 1.8 million hectares had already developed salinity to the extent that it was reducing the production of normal crops and pastures. I will table a relatively poor quality version of the maps; however, I will undertake to try to get original colour versions of the maps for Hon George Cash, because the black and white maps are very hard to read. More detailed maps at a scale of 1:50 000 are available through the land monitor project, which show some one million hectares of severely salt-affected land. There are 125 AO-size maps covering the agricultural region. [See paper No 2109.] (b) Salinity induced by changed land use in pastoral areas is not significant. (2) The prime government approach to salinity, as outlined in the salinity strategy of March 2000, is still current. I seek leave to have the rest of the answer to (2) incorporated into Hansard . Leave granted. The following material was incorporated - __________________________________________________________________________________________ The following programs within departments address salinity: Catchment appraisal Catchment demonstration Environmental objectives for catchments Farm forestry and revegetation Remnant vegetation on crown lands Commercial tree crop development Farming systems development Engineering water management Engineering options evaluation Information dissemination and training Rural infrastructure Water resource recovery catchments Biodiversity recovery catchments Salinity monitoring Water resource monitoring Wetlands and native vegetation monitoring __________________________________________________________________________________________ Hon KIM CHANCE: The answer continues - (3) State government consolidated fund expenditure on salinity over the past five years has totalled $160.4 million. Amounts for individual years beginning in 1999-2000 are $37.6 million, $32.3 million, $31.4 million, $30.2 million and $29 million. That accounts for consolidated fund expenditure and not expenditure by non-consolidated fund agencies such as the Forest Products Commission and Western Power. (4) The Australian Government has provided past support principally through the national land care component of the Natural Heritage Trust. It will also match the $158 million the State is contributing to the National Action Plan for Salinity and Water Quality. Support under the NAP will be directed to the regional natural resource management groups to assist in implementing their regional strategies.
(4) Is any federal Government support available to address this salt problem; and, if so, what is the nature of this support? Hon KIM CHANCE replied : I thank the member for some notice of this question. (1) (a) A number of maps are available showing areas affected by salinity. At the broader scale are the maps prepared by the National Land and Water Resources Audit 2000. Those maps cover the non-pastoral areas and show areas of high, medium and low risk for 2000, as well as the prediction for 2020 and 2050. The audit identified that in 2000, some 4.3 million hectares of land in the agricultural region were at high risk of developing salinity. Of this area, about 1.8 million hectares had already developed salinity to the extent that it was reducing the production of normal crops and pastures. I will table a relatively poor quality version of the maps; however, I will undertake to try to get original colour versions of the maps for Hon George Cash, because the black and white maps are very hard to read. More detailed maps at a scale of 1:50 000 are available through the land monitor project, which show some one million hectares of severely salt-affected land. There are 125 AO-size maps covering the agricultural region. [See paper No 2109.] (b) Salinity induced by changed land use in pastoral areas is not significant. (2) The prime government approach to salinity, as outlined in the salinity strategy of March 2000, is still current. I seek leave to have the rest of the answer to (2) incorporated into Hansard . Leave granted. The following material was incorporated - __________________________________________________________________________________________ The following programs within departments address salinity: Catchment appraisal Catchment demonstration Environmental objectives for catchments Farm forestry and revegetation Remnant vegetation on crown lands Commercial tree crop development Farming systems development Engineering water management Engineering options evaluation Information dissemination and training Rural infrastructure Water resource recovery catchments Biodiversity recovery catchments Salinity monitoring Water resource monitoring Wetlands and native vegetation monitoring __________________________________________________________________________________________ Hon KIM CHANCE: The answer continues - (3) State government consolidated fund expenditure on salinity over the past five years has totalled $160.4 million. Amounts for individual years beginning in 1999-2000 are $37.6 million, $32.3 million, $31.4 million, $30.2 million and $29 million. That accounts for consolidated fund expenditure and not expenditure by non-consolidated fund agencies such as the Forest Products Commission and Western Power. (4) The Australian Government has provided past support principally through the national land care component of the Natural Heritage Trust. It will also match the $158 million the State is contributing to the National Action Plan for Salinity and Water Quality. Support under the NAP will be directed to the regional natural resource management groups to assist in implementing their regional strategies.
Hon KIM CHANCE replied : I thank the member for some notice of this question. (1) (a) A number of maps are available showing areas affected by salinity. At the broader scale are the maps prepared by the National Land and Water Resources Audit 2000. Those maps cover the non-pastoral areas and show areas of high, medium and low risk for 2000, as well as the prediction for 2020 and 2050. The audit identified that in 2000, some 4.3 million hectares of land in the agricultural region were at high risk of developing salinity. Of this area, about 1.8 million hectares had already developed salinity to the extent that it was reducing the production of normal crops and pastures. I will table a relatively poor quality version of the maps; however, I will undertake to try to get original colour versions of the maps for Hon George Cash, because the black and white maps are very hard to read. More detailed maps at a scale of 1:50 000 are available through the land monitor project, which show some one million hectares of severely salt-affected land. There are 125 AO-size maps covering the agricultural region. [See paper No 2109.] (b) Salinity induced by changed land use in pastoral areas is not significant. (2) The prime government approach to salinity, as outlined in the salinity strategy of March 2000, is still current. I seek leave to have the rest of the answer to (2) incorporated into Hansard . Leave granted. The following material was incorporated - __________________________________________________________________________________________ The following programs within departments address salinity: Catchment appraisal Catchment demonstration Environmental objectives for catchments Farm forestry and revegetation Remnant vegetation on crown lands Commercial tree crop development Farming systems development Engineering water management Engineering options evaluation Information dissemination and training Rural infrastructure Water resource recovery catchments Biodiversity recovery catchments Salinity monitoring Water resource monitoring Wetlands and native vegetation monitoring __________________________________________________________________________________________ Hon KIM CHANCE: The answer continues - (3) State government consolidated fund expenditure on salinity over the past five years has totalled $160.4 million. Amounts for individual years beginning in 1999-2000 are $37.6 million, $32.3 million, $31.4 million, $30.2 million and $29 million. That accounts for consolidated fund expenditure and not expenditure by non-consolidated fund agencies such as the Forest Products Commission and Western Power. (4) The Australian Government has provided past support principally through the national land care component of the Natural Heritage Trust. It will also match the $158 million the State is contributing to the National Action Plan for Salinity and Water Quality. Support under the NAP will be directed to the regional natural resource management groups to assist in implementing their regional strategies.
I thank the member for some notice of this question. (1) (a) A number of maps are available showing areas affected by salinity. At the broader scale are the maps prepared by the National Land and Water Resources Audit 2000. Those maps cover the non-pastoral areas and show areas of high, medium and low risk for 2000, as well as the prediction for 2020 and 2050. The audit identified that in 2000, some 4.3 million hectares of land in the agricultural region were at high risk of developing salinity. Of this area, about 1.8 million hectares had already developed salinity to the extent that it was reducing the production of normal crops and pastures. I will table a relatively poor quality version of the maps; however, I will undertake to try to get original colour versions of the maps for Hon George Cash, because the black and white maps are very hard to read. More detailed maps at a scale of 1:50 000 are available through the land monitor project, which show some one million hectares of severely salt-affected land. There are 125 AO-size maps covering the agricultural region. [See paper No 2109.] (b) Salinity induced by changed land use in pastoral areas is not significant. (2) The prime government approach to salinity, as outlined in the salinity strategy of March 2000, is still current. I seek leave to have the rest of the answer to (2) incorporated into Hansard . Leave granted. The following material was incorporated - __________________________________________________________________________________________ The following programs within departments address salinity: Catchment appraisal Catchment demonstration Environmental objectives for catchments Farm forestry and revegetation Remnant vegetation on crown lands Commercial tree crop development Farming systems development Engineering water management Engineering options evaluation Information dissemination and training Rural infrastructure Water resource recovery catchments Biodiversity recovery catchments Salinity monitoring Water resource monitoring Wetlands and native vegetation monitoring __________________________________________________________________________________________ Hon KIM CHANCE: The answer continues - (3) State government consolidated fund expenditure on salinity over the past five years has totalled $160.4 million. Amounts for individual years beginning in 1999-2000 are $37.6 million, $32.3 million, $31.4 million, $30.2 million and $29 million. That accounts for consolidated fund expenditure and not expenditure by non-consolidated fund agencies such as the Forest Products Commission and Western Power. (4) The Australian Government has provided past support principally through the national land care component of the Natural Heritage Trust. It will also match the $158 million the State is contributing to the National Action Plan for Salinity and Water Quality. Support under the NAP will be directed to the regional natural resource management groups to assist in implementing their regional strategies.
(1) (a) A number of maps are available showing areas affected by salinity. At the broader scale are the maps prepared by the National Land and Water Resources Audit 2000. Those maps cover the non-pastoral areas and show areas of high, medium and low risk for 2000, as well as the prediction for 2020 and 2050. The audit identified that in 2000, some 4.3 million hectares of land in the agricultural region were at high risk of developing salinity. Of this area, about 1.8 million hectares had already developed salinity to the extent that it was reducing the production of normal crops and pastures. I will table a relatively poor quality version of the maps; however, I will undertake to try to get original colour versions of the maps for Hon George Cash, because the black and white maps are very hard to read. More detailed maps at a scale of 1:50 000 are available through the land monitor project, which show some one million hectares of severely salt-affected land. There are 125 AO-size maps covering the agricultural region. [See paper No 2109.] (b) Salinity induced by changed land use in pastoral areas is not significant. (2) The prime government approach to salinity, as outlined in the salinity strategy of March 2000, is still current. I seek leave to have the rest of the answer to (2) incorporated into Hansard . Leave granted. The following material was incorporated - __________________________________________________________________________________________ The following programs within departments address salinity: Catchment appraisal Catchment demonstration Environmental objectives for catchments Farm forestry and revegetation Remnant vegetation on crown lands Commercial tree crop development Farming systems development Engineering water management Engineering options evaluation Information dissemination and training Rural infrastructure Water resource recovery catchments Biodiversity recovery catchments Salinity monitoring Water resource monitoring Wetlands and native vegetation monitoring __________________________________________________________________________________________ Hon KIM CHANCE: The answer continues - (3) State government consolidated fund expenditure on salinity over the past five years has totalled $160.4 million. Amounts for individual years beginning in 1999-2000 are $37.6 million, $32.3 million, $31.4 million, $30.2 million and $29 million. That accounts for consolidated fund expenditure and not expenditure by non-consolidated fund agencies such as the Forest Products Commission and Western Power. (4) The Australian Government has provided past support principally through the national land care component of the Natural Heritage Trust. It will also match the $158 million the State is contributing to the National Action Plan for Salinity and Water Quality. Support under the NAP will be directed to the regional natural resource management groups to assist in implementing their regional strategies.
The following material was incorporated -
Catchment appraisal Catchment demonstration Environmental objectives for catchments Farm forestry and revegetation Remnant vegetation on crown lands Commercial tree crop development Farming systems development Engineering water management Engineering options evaluation Information dissemination and training Rural infrastructure Water resource recovery catchments Biodiversity recovery catchments Salinity monitoring Water resource monitoring Wetlands and native vegetation monitoring
Hon KIM CHANCE: The answer continues - (3) State government consolidated fund expenditure on salinity over the past five years has totalled $160.4 million. Amounts for individual years beginning in 1999-2000 are $37.6 million, $32.3 million, $31.4 million, $30.2 million and $29 million. That accounts for consolidated fund expenditure and not expenditure by non-consolidated fund agencies such as the Forest Products Commission and Western Power. (4) The Australian Government has provided past support principally through the national land care component of the Natural Heritage Trust. It will also match the $158 million the State is contributing to the National Action Plan for Salinity and Water Quality. Support under the NAP will be directed to the regional natural resource management groups to assist in implementing their regional strategies.
(3) State government consolidated fund expenditure on salinity over the past five years has totalled $160.4 million. Amounts for individual years beginning in 1999-2000 are $37.6 million, $32.3 million, $31.4 million, $30.2 million and $29 million. That accounts for consolidated fund expenditure and not expenditure by non-consolidated fund agencies such as the Forest Products Commission and Western Power. (4) The Australian Government has provided past support principally through the national land care component of the Natural Heritage Trust. It will also match the $158 million the State is contributing to the National Action Plan for Salinity and Water Quality. Support under the NAP will be directed to the regional natural resource management groups to assist in implementing their regional strategies.
(4) The Australian Government has provided past support principally through the national land care component of the Natural Heritage Trust. It will also match the $158 million the State is contributing to the National Action Plan for Salinity and Water Quality. Support under the NAP will be directed to the regional natural resource management groups to assist in implementing their regional strategies.
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