Agricultural
18 April, 2024
Sign the petition to save the GAB
The Queensland Farmers’ Federation (QFF) is leading a petition calling on the Queensland Government to put regulations in place to protect the Queensland component of the Great Artesian Basin (GAB) from future Carbon Capture and Storage proposals.
It is a Queensland Parliamentary e-petition, sponsored by Robbie Katter MP, Queensland leader of Katter’s Australian Party.
Earlier this month, QFF led a delegation alongside the Local Government Association of Queensland and the Queensland Conservation Council to meet with the Queensland Premier Steven Miles to show a united front and express the collective grave concerns regarding the proposed project.
The delegation included
five Mayors from regional Queensland and representatives from peak agricultural industry and environmental groups.
Last week, AgForce took the step to go to the Federal Court of Australia in Brisbane to challenge the Federal Government’s decision that the Great Artesian Basin is not a matter of national environmental significance.
In February 2022, the previous Federal Government determined that a proposal from global mining giant Glencore to pump industrial waste into Australia’s Great Artesian Basin was not of environmental concern.
QFF CEO Jo Sheppard said the value of the GAB to communities, agriculture, small businesses, tourism, wildlife and the environment is immeasurable and undeniable.
“We have a duty of care to protect the Great Artesian Basin for generations to come,” Ms Sheppard said.
The petition can be found and signed, by 29 April, at qff.org.au/no-ccs-in-the-gab/
So far there have been over 10,000 signatures.
