Article 5W6DV Traditional owners launch legal challenge against NT’s largest groundwater extraction licence

Traditional owners launch legal challenge against NT’s largest groundwater extraction licence

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Calla Wahlquist
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Decision to grant Fortune Agribusiness licence to extract 40,000 megalitres a year unconscionable', Central Land Council says

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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