Farmers rattled as Adani coal mine granted unlimited water access

By Peter Hannam
Updated April 5 2017 - 10:43am, first published 10:24am
Coal development in the Bowen Basin just east of the Galilee Basin. Photo: Greenpeace/Tom Jefferson
Coal development in the Bowen Basin just east of the Galilee Basin. Photo: Greenpeace/Tom Jefferson

The proposed Adani coal mine has been granted unlimited access to groundwater by the Queensland government in a move farmers fear would allow it to drain huge amounts of water from the Great Artesian Basin.

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