Green groups, on Friday, lost a fight to stop billionaire Gina Rinehart and India’s GVK from building a giant coal mine in Australia as a court has dismissed an appeal against the state of Queensland’s environmental approval for the project.

Last year, the state Land Court ruled that the mine should be approved with strict water management conditions or rejected.

But that decision was appealed to the supreme Court by the green group saying that the Land Court did not have the right to issue two alternative recommendations and should have rejected the mine outright.

On Friday, the Queensland Supreme Court has dismissed the appeal.

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