Lock the Gate Alliance has dismissed Adani’s announcement that it is ready to start construction as wishful thinking, with several approvals and a court challenge still outstanding.

Brisbane locals supporting Central Queensland graziers have today unfurled a giant banner from a building and handed out leaflets in the CBD, reminding residents of the damage the Adani Carmichael mega mine would do to underground water systems.

Community group Lock the Gate has expressed its deep regret after Western Australia’s McGowan Labor Government lifted the fracking moratorium in the state, and replaced it with very limited protection for a few small areas.

Central Queensland graziers already battling the twin threats of Adani and a crippling drought have been dealt yet another blow with the approval by the Queensland Government of the water hungry mega mine, China Stone.

Copies of more than 500 letters written by Wide Bay farmers, business owners and concerned locals were yesterday (Nov 22) handed to Blue Energy executives and Queensland Government officials as part of a campaign to stop gasfields being developed in the region.