Go NSW EDO!! ...The federal court is being asked to overturn the environment minister, Greg Hunt’s approval of Indian company Adani’s $16.5bn Queensland coalmine because he did not take into account the impact on the Great Barrier Reef of the greenhouse gases emitted when the coal is burned. Environment ministers usually consider only the emissions from greenhouse gases that are produced during the mining process, not the emissions produced when the coal is burned, and Adani was not required to consider emissions from the burning of the coal mined in its environmental impact statement. But a test case lodged by the NSW Environmental Defenders Office (EDO) on behalf of the Mackay Conservation Group argues that the emissions from burning the estimated 60m tonnes a year of coal to be exported from Adani’s Carmichael mine are big enough to have an impact on global warming and therefore on the Great Barrier Reef. “We will argue that the minister failed to consider the greenhouse gas emissions arising from the burning of coal mined from the project and the impact of those emissions on nationally protected matters, such as the Great Barrier Reef,” EDO NSW said...
Posted on: Wed, 14 Jan 2015 20:45:24 +0000
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