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| Justine Bell - no precedent for stopping Carmichael Mine, but we should. |
In the wake of
the Paris Agreement, pressure has intensified on the Australian
government to reject Adani’s proposed Carmichael mine, which will be one of the
biggest mines in the world.
In order to stay below 2℃, scientists have estimated that
more than 90% of known coal reserves in Australia must stay in the ground.
Depending on the economics of various coal reserves, this may mean the Galilee
Basin is “unburnable coal”.
Yet, this mine has already been approved by the Federal
Environment Minister Greg Hunt, and on Tuesday Queensland’s Land Court also
recommended approval of the mine.
Read the piece on The
Conversation by a Lecturer in Law at The University of Queensland, Justine
Bell - “There’s no precedent for stopping the Carmichael coal mine, but we should.”
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