Stop Adani sucking water from drought-stricken Queensland

Call on Josh Frydenberg to require a full environmental assessment of Adani's water scheme.

This Thursday, Federal Environment Minister Josh Frydenberg will make a crucial decision on the future of the Adani coal mine.

Adani wants to suck 12.5 billion litres of water EVERY YEAR from the Suttor River for its Carmichael coal mine without requiring an environmental assessment of its plan.

Drought-stricken Queensland can’t afford to pour its precious water into a coal mine which will divert water from farmers, worsen the impacts of climate change, risk aquifers and threaten wetlands.

Frydenberg is due to make a decision on whether Adani's water scheme requires a full environmental assessment by this Thursday 5 July.

Will you email the Minister for Environment and Energy today and ask him to conduct a full and proper assessment of Adani's water scheme?

Dear Minister for Environment,

Adani wants to extract 12.5 billion litres of water from the Suttor River and send it through a new, 61km pipeline to the Carmichael coal mine.

In its referral, Adani claims that the scheme is not captured by the federal water trigger, which means it would not require a full environmental assessment, with input from an independent expert scientific committee.
 
Adani also wants its water infrastructure to supply other proposed Galilee Basin coal mines in the future. This could triple the amount of water taken - all without proper scrutiny or public consultation.
 
If you approve this, it will be yet another special deal for Adani that hangs Queensland farmers, local communities and the environment out to dry, at a time when most of the surrounding region of Central Queensland is in drought.

We call on you, Minister for Environment and Energy, to recognise the water scheme as a controlled action under the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999  because of its impacts on water resources.

You must require that Adani conduct a full environmental impact assessment of the scheme and that it is thoroughly reviewed by scientists on the Independent Expert Scientific Committee.

Yours faithfully,

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Stop Adani sucking water from drought-stricken Queensland

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