Australia approves Adani coal mine, endangering the Great Barrier Reef and, well, civilization
of coal a year at first . But the project includes a 200-mile long railroad to the coal terminal on the Queensland coast, which could potentially open the remote Galilee Basin to further development.
The biggest myth associated with the Adani mine may be that continuing to mine and export coal is somehow vital to the Australian economy. It is not. As James Bradley, although coal accounts for almost 15 per cent of Australia’s exports, it contributes less than 1 percent of the Commonwealth government’s total revenue. And it’s not like the industry creates a lot of jobs, either. In 2018, it employed slightly fewer than 50,000 people. That’s less than 0.
What the coal industry does have is money to pay off corrupt politicians. In the past 10 years or so, the Australian mining industry poured well over half a billion dollars into lobby groups that push coal and fossil fuels. That has been a good investment: Between 2008 and 2013 in Queensland alone, the government laid out more than $8 billion on projects to benefit the coal industry., the approval of permits for the mine is “a disgrace” and evidence that the “whole system is rigged and broken.
The Carmichael mine is still a long way from a done deal. There are still more regulatory hoops to jump through, and theBut the fact that the project even got this far is a sign of the greed and stupidity that makes the climate crisis so hard to tackle.the approval of the mine “an act of climate vandalism that represents everything that has gone wrong with politics in Australia.
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