We should be putting the brake on the Carmichael coalmine, not hitting the accelerator

Queensland's Mines Minister, Anthony
Lynham - the end's in sight and
so he slams down the accelerator.

The  is now slamming its foot down on the accelerator to help a private company build the biggest coalmine Australia has ever seen.

“We can see the end of the tunnel and now we are accelerating towards it,” the state’s mining minister, Anthony Lynham, said.

The massive Adani Carmichael coal project in the state’s Galilee basin has been given “critical” status by the government, in the hope that removing a few bureaucratic hurdles might speed things up a little bit.

What’s at the end of Lynham’s tunnel one can only imagine, but given the climate-changing gases that will come from burning all that coal, we can make a couple of guesses.

Are we being driven headlong, for example, into a concrete wall several metres thick?

Is there a precipitous cliff edge at the end of this dark tunnel, at the bottom of which is a hellish mix of dead coral, flooded cities and discarded soft porn tapes starring Donald Trump?

Read Graham Readfearn’s story in The Guardian - “We should be putting the brake on the Carmichael coal mine, not hitting the accelerator.”