Days after Glencore, the largest mining company in the world, announced an annual聽cap on thermal coal, details of its well-funded pro-coal campaign emerged.
Anti-coal campaigners have demanded reforms to limit the abuse of money politics.
Australian Conservation Foundation (ACF)
The federal Coalition government is so keen to assist Adani with its mega coalmine project, it is breaking its own laws to do it.
The last legal roadblock Adani faces, the challenge by the Wangan and Jagalingou Traditional Owners of the Galilee Basin to the Indigenous Land Use Agreement, is likely to be resolved this month. While the proposed Carmichael mine in central Queensland is often deemed 鈥渁 stranded asset鈥, as Adani has not succeeded in securing finance for the $16.5 billion project, it will not just walk away.
Activists opposing the proposed megamine that Indian miner Adani wants to build in central Queensland have suffered two legal setbacks in their quest to block the mine.
On August 25, the Federal Court dismissed the appeal by the Australian Conservation Foundation against the federal government鈥檚 approval of Adani's Carmichael coalmine.
The Environmental Defenders Office Queensland (EDO), on behalf of the Australian Conservation Foundation (ACF), lodged an appeal on September 19 against the Federal Court鈥檚 finding in August that then-environment minister Greg Hunt鈥檚 approval of Adani鈥檚 Carmichael coalmine was lawful.
The appeal challenges the lawfulness of the court鈥檚 finding that the minister was entitled to find the impact on global warming and the Great Barrier Reef from the Carmichael mine鈥檚 4.6 billion tonnes of carbon emissions was 鈥渟peculative鈥.
On December 15, the Queensland Land Court recommended the giant Adani-Carmichael open-cut coalmine be given the go-ahead in central Queensland subject to several conditions including the protection of the endangered Black Throated Finch.
The hearing was prompted by a number of objections to the mine, including from the conservation group Land Services of Coast and Country.
Environment minister Greg Hunt gave formal approval on October 15 for a massive new coalmine in Queensland's Galilee basin, 鈥渋n accordance with national environment law鈥 after the Federal Court set aside the previous approval in August.
But Indian coal mining giant Adani is unlikely to receive the federal government funding it needs to open the Carmichael mega mine.
As resource prices crash and more than 1000 coalmining jobs have been lost in Queensland alone this year, Adani's competitors have come out in opposition to any federal government assistance for the mega mine.
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