The Greens have welcomed court proceedings against the Morrison Government for failing to apply national water laws when it assessed Adani\u2019s North Galilee Water Scheme project, a key part of the Carmichael coal mine.
\n\u201cThe\u00a0water trigger was introduced to\u00a0protect farmers, landholders and community members\u00a0by making sure the impacts on water supplies are rigorously assessed,\u201d Greens Senate Leader and spokesperson on mining, Senator Larissa Waters said today.
\n\u201cBut the government won\u2019t be assessing\u00a0Adani\u2019s pipeline project,\u00a0despite the project sucking out 12.5 billion litres of water per year.
\n\u201cDuring drought and a climate emergency, that\u2019s billions of litres of water removed without any proper environmental assessment.
\n\u201cOnce again, the interests of farmers and our environment are being ignored\u00a0in favour of Liberal Party donors.
\n\u201cThe Morrison Government may as well end the charade and have the Prime Minister report directly to the mining industry.
\n\u201cThe Greens stand with the community to stop Adani and clean up politics so we can protect our water resources and take action on climate change,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Greens have welcomed court proceedings against the Morrison Government for failing to apply national water laws when it assessed Adani\u2019s North Galilee Water Scheme project, a key part of the Carmichael coal mine. \u201cThe\u00a0water trigger was introduced to\u00a0protect farmers, landholders and community members\u00a0by making sure the impacts on water supplies are rigorously assessed,\u201d Greens … Continue reading “Govt ignoring water laws shows Big Mining running Parliament”<\/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-5501","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\/5501","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=5501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5501\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}