Published: September 18, 2018
Green groups say the federal government decision amounts to ‘preferential treatment’
The federal government has ruled the Indian mining company Adani does not have to complete a full environmental impact statement for its application to drastically expand a dam and build a pipeline for its Carmichael coalmine.
The project, which Adani calls the north Galilee water scheme, would involve the construction of a 10 billion-litre dam. An existing dam has a capacity of 2.2bn litres.
Adani also wants to build 110km of pipeline to transport water from the Suttor river and Burdekin basin.
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