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Risks of a cotton industry to be aired at information day in Katherine

By Roxanne Fitzgerald
Updated February 17 2021 - 1:25pm, first published 12:26pm
Residents are concerns iconic rivers in and around the Katherine region are in jeopardy if a large-scale cotton industry is developed. Picture: Supplied.
Residents are concerns iconic rivers in and around the Katherine region are in jeopardy if a large-scale cotton industry is developed. Picture: Supplied.

The development of a cotton industry in the Katherine region would be "transformational", and at the current scale of plans could deplete the river system, the Environment Centre of the NT's river campaigner Jason Fowler says.

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