Urannah scheme: how money for a Queensland dam project flowed to LNP-linked firm

The federal government has given $12m towards planning the latest version of the scheme championed by prominent Nationals

The idea of building a massive dam at Urannah Creek, on the slopes of the Eungella Range, has been a pipe dream in north Queensland since the late 1950s.

Over the decades, the project has been championed by a host of speculators, business groups and rural politicians. It has been studied and discarded more than a dozen times.