Traditional owners launch legal challenge against NT’s largest groundwater extraction licence
by Calla Wahlquist from Environment | The Guardian on (#5W6DV)
Decision to grant Fortune Agribusiness licence to extract 40,000 megalitres a year unconscionable', Central Land Council says
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Traditional owners in the Northern Territory have launched a legal challenge against an unconscionable" decision to grant the territory's largest ever groundwater extraction licence to a Chinese-owned agribusiness company, saying the decision failed to consider Aboriginal cultural rights to the water.
The NT government granted Fortune Agribusiness a free 30-year licence to extract up to 40,000 megalitres of groundwater a year from aquifers under Singleton station, about 400km north of Alice Springs.
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