Pictured: Adani's mine would pollute and drain billions of litres of groundwater, risking the Doongmabulla Springs. This site is sacred to W&J and is estimated to be over one million years old. Photo: Ali Sanderson
For more than six years now, Wangan and Jagalingou (W&J) Traditional Owners have protected their country against Adani, who want to take it and turn it into a giant coal mine.
"If the mine were to proceed it would tear the heart out of the land," say the W&J leaders, of their Traditional Country in the Galilee Basin. "The scale of this mine means it would have devastating impacts on our native title, ancestral lands and waters, our totemic plants and animals, and our environmental and cultural heritage.
"It would literally leave a huge black hole, monumental in proportions, where there were once our homelands. These effects are irreversible. Our land will be 'disappeared'."
(For the complete statement click on the headline.)
