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| Adani drilling for groundwater, caught by drone |
Adani, who is wanting to build the biggest coal mine in the southern hemisphere in Australia's Queensland, has been caught red handed drilling for precious groundwater illegally. It has no state gov approval to do so. This at a time when farmers are in the midst of severe drought across the country.
Adani says it has approval, but drilling into groundwater is a "stage 2" process which hasn't been OK'd. At risk are groundwater levels that could drastically reduce, not only affecting farmers but a nearby 1 million year old springs which are a nature reserve. Adani has to give a report to the Queensland gov proving that taking groundwater won't affect those springs. It has not.
This comes on top of the Queensland gov deciding to take Adani to court over the spill of large amounts of coal into wetlands and the coast, inside the Great Barrier Reef. It was 800 times the concentration allowed by the environmental dept.
Sign the petition here to demand the Queensland gov prosecute Adani for this illegal act.
Mr Davies claims drone footage showed that Adani had performed other "Stage 2" work in contravention of its EA, such as building access roads and clearing trees and other vegetation for the construction of the six bores.
"Through aerial imagery, we can see that Adani have cleared vegetation, put in roads, put in permanent infrastructure to impact our groundwater at a time of great drought and climate change. Adani have put at risk the sensitive, one-million-year-old springs by doing this illegal activity."
Ms Bragg alleges the bores were drilled before Adani lodged its first Annual Return in March this year to Queensland's department of environment and science.
"The annual return lodged by Adani does in fact say that they've done zero works relating to the site. The persuasive evidence unearthed by our clients is that that this is not true, that in fact project Stage 2 works have commenced including dewatering, including site clearance, including roadworks." ABC
2 out of 3 Australians want to shut down coal-fired power stations & replace them with renewables.— Adam Bandt (@AdamBandt) September 11, 2018
73% are worried about impact of climate change, a growing number.
Yet gov has no climate policy.
The Libs are dangerous & direct threat to life.#Greens
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Two alleged environmental breaches in less than a week but Labor and the Libs are still backing the Adani coal mine 😡 pic.twitter.com/88JfoHh2VF— Larissa Waters (@larissawaters) September 12, 2018
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