IT MAY be good news for jobs but a Supreme Court ruling in favour of the Alpha coal mine has left a Galilee Basin farmer fearing for his future.

Bruce Currie owns a farm north of Jericho in Central Queensland and fears the mine will affect groundwater on his property.

Mr Currie was one landholder who was part of the original legal action in the Land Court against GVK Hancock.

Yesterday he watched from the back of a Brisbane courtroom when the ruling was made.

Speaking to media outside court he asked: "Where is the justice in this system?"

He said mining was a non-viable industry, unlike agriculture which had been a part of his entire life.

"You are sacrificing essential viable industries for a non-viable one," he said.

Environmental Defender's Office solicitor Michael Berkman, who represented Coast and Country, said the court ruling should not detract from the Land Court's recommendations which he said exposed "serious groundwater impacts" for Galilee Basin farmers.

Mr Currie said this was vital to farmers' livelihoods.

"Groundwater is essential to our business - if we lose it we lose our business," he said.

GVK Hancock spokesman Josh Euler said the company had put agreements in place with landholders which would make it liable if groundwater was impacted.

He also said more work needed to be completed before the mine could push ahead.

"We will be working with government to finalise our water licences and working towards getting the mining lease," Mr Euler said.

"It has been disappointing that what we've seen is a handful of anti-mining activists being able to delay thousands of jobs for Queensland."