{"id":4568,"date":"2019-12-10T23:59:42","date_gmt":"2019-12-10T23:59:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=4568"},"modified":"2019-12-10T23:59:42","modified_gmt":"2019-12-10T23:59:42","slug":"adani-gets-12-5-billion-litres-of-water-while-67-of-queensland-in-drought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2019\/12\/10\/adani-gets-12-5-billion-litres-of-water-while-67-of-queensland-in-drought\/","title":{"rendered":"Adani gets 12.5 billion litres of water while 67% of Queensland in drought"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">The Morrison Government\u2019s decision not to consider the impacts of Adani sucking up 12.5 billion litres of water from a region in deep drought shows the Government has been completely captured by big mining companies, according to Greens Co-Deputy Leader and Mining spokesperson, environmental lawyer Senator Larissa Waters.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\">\u201cWhat an insult to Queensland farmers that on the same day as two-thirds of the state is drought declared, Adani gets another freebie from another government they have donated to.<br \/>\n\u201cOur environmental laws are pathetically weak. They haven\u2019t required the climate impacts of Adani\u2019s mine to be considered before approval was issued, and now they don\u2019t require the water impacts of a pipeline for water to wash that coal with to be considered.<br \/>\n\u201cThese 20 year old environmental laws ignore climate impacts and now ignore water impacts, and are working perfectly for all the mining companies who donate to the Liberal party. I hope that this decision gets challenged for a second time in court.<br \/>\n\u201cIf you ever needed a better example that this government has sold out to big mining, this is it.<\/span><br \/>\n\u201cAdani can\u2019t get insurance and have had to self-fund after more than a dozen global financiers ruled out funding its climate-bomb coal mine. They have made false promises about jobs, when regional Queensland is desperate for real jobs and for protection of their drought-stricken lands and precious water resources.<br \/>\n\u201cWe won\u2019t get real action on the climate emergency driving the drought until big mining companies stop making donations to political parties and stop calling the shots,\u201d Senator Waters said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Morrison Government\u2019s decision not to consider the impacts of Adani sucking up 12.5 billion litres of water from a region in deep drought shows the Government has been completely captured by big mining companies, according to Greens Co-Deputy Leader and Mining spokesperson, environmental lawyer Senator Larissa Waters. \u201cWhat an insult to Queensland farmers that &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2019\/12\/10\/adani-gets-12-5-billion-litres-of-water-while-67-of-queensland-in-drought\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Adani gets 12.5 billion litres of water while 67% of Queensland in drought&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aussie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4568\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}