The government has given the green light for a Chinese company to take millions of litres Australian water every year for the next 90 years. 9News
They've been affected by drought and fires and now these Queensland farmers are getting another kick in the guts.
"No never this dry...never this bad. It's been dry before but never the water as bad as it is," Peter said."I spent years building them breeders up and it breaks your heart to sell young breeders you know, cattle that you've bred," Peter said. "At that point, Cherrabah were going to build a town there and that got thrown by the wayside so the whole water issue to us was sort of dead in the water then," Ben said.
"It's embarrassing that our council would do it. You know, fair dinkum. Drought or no drought here, you know this issue is just not right, even when it's good times, you're still going to drain the water here," Ben said."You don't allow, especially Chinese company, to come in and start extracting water for commercial purposes and selling it at a profit when towns and schools can't provide the water there for the township," she said.
"Now you can only imagine if that's happened here just from the test pumping, imagine if they took 100 mega litres out."
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