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The federal environment department wrongly skipped a key assessment when approving a water pipeline for Adani s massive Carmichael coal mine, a court has ruled.
The North Galilee Water Scheme would extend a dam and pump water 110 kilometres to the coal mine in central Queensland, to suppress dust and wash coal.
A department official in 2019 decided the project wasn t a coal mining activity or involving a large coal mining development.
Deeming it so would have mandated an assessment of whether the pipeline and other infrastructure had or was likely to have a significant impact on water resources.
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