The CRU claimed to lack authority to release the commercial datasets.

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She said that since MEPs had an "automatic and constitutional right to lists, her authority for their release would not anyway have been required".

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"It sticks in the craw" of farmers, Mr. Gertson said, that the authority will continue to release water to golf courses and other recreational customers that pay higher rates for a guaranteed water supply.

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