Indian mining giant Adani is seeking to dodge federal scrutiny of its plan to build a pipeline pumping billions of litres of water from a river in drought-stricken central Queensland to feed its Carmichael mega-mine.
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| The road to Adani's proposed Carmichael coal mine west of Moranbah. |
Labor says the move is nonsensical and casts further doubt over the coal project, which the party is under pressure to halt should it win government.
The $16.5 billion Carmichael project would be Australia’s largest coal mine and would open Queensland’s Galilee Basin to further coal development.
In a plan being evaluated by federal environment authorities, Adani wants to build a 61 kilometre pipeline to pump up to 12.5 billion litres of water a year from the Suttor River to the mine.
The project, known as the North Galilee Water Scheme, could also provide water to “other resource extraction projects” in the region such as the China Stone coal project, Adani says.
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