Labor’s water bills don’t go far enough

Updated October 11 2016 - 10:14pm, first published 9:55pm

The Basin Sustainability Alliance {BSA} commends Bruce Currie’s opinion piece (QCL 6 Oct) and supports the basic principles he is fighting for. For too long – Galilee Basin landholders have lived with the debilitating uncertainty of the potential impacts of proposed coal mines on their stock & domestic water supplies. If all nine proposed Galilee Basin coal mines are developed - up to 2000GL (four Sydney Harbours) of groundwater could be extracted,  impacting more than 500 landholder’s stock and domestic water bores as well as potentially destroying nationally listed GAB springs complexes. The continued failure of successive Queensland Governments to address the cumulative water impacts of the proposed Galilee Basin mines is completely irresponsible.  

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