Joy Cunningham, of Moree, writes:
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“What price can be placed on water?” is the question uppermost in the current controversy regarding the Shenhua open-cut mine.
No amount of bureaucratic impositions will ever cover any permanent damage to the precious God-given water necessary for our daily lives and survival.
Consequently, the premier of NSW and elected representatives must not permit this pending disaster to proceed despite UN allegiances and breaches of section 44(i) of the Australian constitution.
Irresponsibility allowed the matter to come to the present situation and irresponsibility could destroy the life-giving water we drink to live, so there is no other alternative but to abandon the project forthwith.
It would appear that city water is more precious than bush water to elected corporate representatives who have no constitutional authority since setting up the “Australian Parliament Corporation” in 1973, bringing misrepresentation and irresponsibility.
Although there have been minimal court rulings on land issues in Australia, they do include a case where miners have been fined for burrowing under another property without permission (High Court of Australia, August 9, 1923).