Opponents say the public deserves as much input possible into a nationally significant proposal drawing from Singleton Station's record-breaking 40,000 megalitre water licence, after a report found cultural and ceremonial sites will be diminished by its impact on groundwater.
, after a report it commissioned found cultural and ceremonial values will "almost certainly" be damaged and sites diminished.Traditional owners and environment groups want the highest level of assessmentFortune Agribusiness plans to use the staged 40,000-megalitre licence to develop a nationally significant food bowl on 3,300 hectares of arid country south of Tennant Creek at Singleton Station.
"Kaytete traditional owners have maintained their country for millenia and we owe to them to the highest level of assessment," Ms McCarthy said. Once consultation closes, the Environmental Protection Authority will determine what level of assessment the project requires.in the region relied on the region's groundwater.the safety of those sites fell outside the scope of current sacred site protections in the territory, and could only be captured by the most stringent level of analysis.
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