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Whistleblower Team: Seven International Scientists SARI HYYTINEN IN our September 17th edition 2019, CCIN covered concerns of local farmers regarding the continued imposition being placed on them due to farming runoff on the Great Barrier Reef. Due to their concerns a delegate which included: Martin Bella, Green Shirt President who coordinated the trip, Mario Quagliata, LNP/ Northern Green Shirt member and Heidi Quagliata, his wife, Peter Jackson a Northern Green Shirt member/ A Cane Farmer from Euramo, John Picollo a cane farmer from Gordonvale, Cameron Vecchio a young farmer, Bryce MacDonald, the Kennedy LNP chairman and Professor Peter Ridd had travelled to Canberra to express their concerns to the Federal government. Their journey to Canberra resulted in a senate inquiry called ‘Identification of leading practices in ensuring evidence-based regulation of farm practices that impact water quality outcomes in the Great Barrier Reef’, which was referred by the federal
government on 17 September 2019 to the Rural and Regional Affairs and Transport References Committee for inquiry and report by 1 October 2020. The parliament website Submissions closed on 8 November 2019 and a large number of submissions have been made to this inquiry. The submissions haven’t been published at the time of this week’s edition. Seven international scientists who are from Australia, Canada, Norway and Sweden, and now known colloquially as ‘the whistleblower team’ or the ‘magnificent 7’, found a 100% replication fail regarding eight experiments that showed the negative impacts on coral reef fish due to acidification. All of the experiments replicated were conducted by the same organization (James Cook University’s (JCU) Coral Reef Centre), which informs our local farmers that their runoff is having significant impact on the reef.
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