Chinese Company Extracts 96 Million Litres Per Year From Drought Stricken Queensland Community Our government would rather sell bottled water to China, than provide water for our farmers! southern Queensland property which has since been approved to operate as a commercial water mine. locals are on water rations and communities at imminent risk of running dry – has raised significant questions about the oversight and regulation of critical water resources in Queensland. overridden by changes to Queensland law enacted by Campbell Newman’s government in 2013. automatically granted a 94-year extraction permit at Cherrabah when a short-term allocation expired in 2017. longer than 12 months. groundwater “by a factor of almost 20”. The public servant, whose name is redacted from the document, calculated an annual recharge of 40m litres – less than half the Cherrabah allocation. The principal natural resource officer for groundwater, wrote that he had concerns about Joyful View, which at the time had wanted the allocation to support plans for a massive resort development. He raised concerns the company might seek to exert political pressure to gain the permit. storage, limited recharge potential, boundary conditions under pumping, bore interference etc have been raised time and time again. The manager writes: “Every opportunity has been taken to urge them to be more cautious and pessimistic rather than the apparent  exuberant optimism they hold regarding water supply availability. water and selling it outside the region, but could do nothing to stop it. without meters. Earlier this year state proposals to place meters on bores and restrict groundwater pumping were met with significant resistance by farmers. now lets have a fire......................... agenda 2030 https://tribunecontentagency.com/article/as-a-drought-stricken-area-in-australia-struggles-a-chinese-company-moves-to-bottle-its-water/ https://www.patreon.com/posts/32819738?fbclid=IwAR03Xk1ZMwzLjDr0u0HPOkLJbHjAOMiWh39bp6vA9bU82EBga4P6rIa5lu8