AUSTRALIA – More than 300 angry farmers and their trucks blocked a city thoroughfare to protest the Government’s north-south pipeline, which they say will drive them off the land.

The Government plans to send 75 billion liters of water a year from the northern food bowl district through the pipeline to Melbourne in 2010.

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Source : The Herald Sun

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