Plans for one of Australia’s largest coalmines, producing 10m tonnes a year, were abandoned during an environmental impact study process in 2015, when the coal price dropped to about half its current value. SBS acknowledges the traditional owners of country throughout Australia.

Watch SBS World News live daily at 6:30pm on TV and on our app. Read more: Australia to fund study into new coal-fired power station. [25], To read the submissions of the objectors in this case, one could be forgiven for thinking that I was dealing with an entirely different case to the circumstances set out above. For example, the Canadian province of Alberta provides a 24-hour average TSP criterion of 100 μg/m3, while California and Scotland provide annual average PM10 criteria that are equal to or less than 20 μg/m3 – some of the most stringent in the world. This position is only strengthened when one takes into account that the Stage 3 project has both the approval of the State Coordinator-General, as well as that of the Commonwealth Minister for the Environment. Sites are classed as ‘abandoned’ once a mining tenure no longer exists. "Adani wants to dig millions of truckloads of coal out of the earth, burn the coal, release massive amounts of climate pollution into the air, which would contribute to more savage droughts, fires and floods.". Available for everyone, funded by readers. Have a confidential tip for our reporters? The coal industry has begun lobbying the re-elected Morrison government to support hardline positions, including building new coal-fired power stations and weakening approvals processes for new mines. Just make it LAW that the Federal Government has to oversee and supervise the states to ensure every persons right to a healthy environment.
Anti-Adani protesters won’t find much of a welcome in Clermont, the closest settlement to Carmichael. Australia is the world’s biggest coal exporter, and the Galilee Basin will help decide whether it holds on to that status.
Adani is an Indian multinational company, with businesses around the world in sectors such as energy, resources and agribusiness. To build that, around 1 billion tonnes of steel will be required, and more than 500 million tonnes of coking coal will be needed to make that steel. Evidence to this effect was presented in a submission on the Enquiry into Queensland Government Administration. @ Copyright RenewEconomy 2018. While he fears climate change, Currie said his immediate concern is that the Carmichael project less than 100 miles away could deplete and pollute water from the Great Artesian Basin, the world’s largest natural underground water resource. What happens if Donald Trump refuses to concede the US election? [29], They speak with sad voices at the loss of the vast majority of the town of Acland through the actions of NAC by purchasing, then removing almost all of Acland’s homes and buildings, and complain that the Stage 1 and Stage 2 operations of New Acland have made life a misery for those who live in close proximity to the mine because of what they say to be excesses in dust, noise, vibrations, lighting spill etcetera emanating from the mine.

All rights reserved. At Airlie Beach, a tourist town some 60 miles down the coast, Tony Fontes has seen changes to the reef’s condition in the four decades he’s worked as a dive operator and instructor since moving from California. There are about 120 complex abandoned mine sites in Queensland. India`s coal imports inched up 1.7 percent in February, the first rise in eight months, Coal Secretary Anil Swarup told Reuters on Monday, but suggested it may have been a temporary increase based on deals signed earlier

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