Explained: Adani’s continuously changing jobs figures

When it comes to the Adani coal mine, Adani has put out so many different job creation numbers, at different times and for different audiences, it’s hard to know what’s what.

The proposed Adani mine has brought many protests.

Adani comes up with different jobs figures depending on who it is talking to.

· Adani told investors the whole project would be automated from mine to port (meaning robot driven trucks to reduce on labour costs i.e. jobs)

· Adani promised politicians 10,000 jobs

· In court Adani was forced to admit it would create just 1,464 new jobs — direct and indirect jobs — for the mine and railway, because it would negatively impact other industries.

Read the story from Medium by The Australia Institute - “Explained: Adani’s continuously changing jobs figures.”

Sally McManus refuses to back Adani coal mine

Australia's top union leader has hedged on whether the Adani coal mine should be approved, putting her at odds with Queensland workers campaigning for the controversial project to go ahead.

Sally McManus said it would be "weird" if she signed the CFMMEU pledge.

Australian Council of Trade Unions secretary Sally McManus said she would not sign a pledge being circulated by the Construction, Forestry, Maritime, Mining and Energy Union outlining support for coal jobs.

"We're not a political party, we're the ACTU," Ms McManus told The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age on Wednesday.

Read the story from The Age by Sumeyya Iiannbey and Dana McCauley - “Sally McManus refuses to back Adani coal mine.”

Five ways to talk to your family and friends about the climate crisis this Christmas

Climate marches, raging and unseasonal bushfires, the Adani coal mine. It seems like climate change and global warming is a conversation that’s going to be hard to avoid this Christmas.

‘This is about all of our futures – our lives, our
quality of life, and that of our children. Keep it
in that frame and you’re a lot closer to changing minds’ 

But some ways of talking are better than others. To help you prepare for difficult conversations here are five different ways you can try to talk about climate change, or anything else difficult and controversial, this holidays.

Read the story from The Guardian by Simon Black - “Five ways to talk to your family and friends about the climate crisis this Christmas.”

Stopping Adani mine would pose no 'sovereign risk' to Australia, says economist Saul Eslake

Stopping the Adani coal mine would pose no "sovereign risk" to Australia, and politicians on both sides have willingly misled people into thinking otherwise, says respected economist Saul Eslake.

"Sovereign risk is not the risk a government might change
 its mind or make a decision I don't like": economist Saul Eslake.

The former chief economist of ANZ told Fairfax Media the major parties were "abusing the term" for political gain when in fact there had been no impact on Australia's sovereign rating as a result of decisions taken on environmental grounds.

In a paper commissioned by the Australian Conservation Foundation, Mr Eslake found there was "absolutely no reason" the country's sovereign risk would be affected if a future government stopped the Adani mine proceeding for environmental reasons.

Read Michael Koziol’s story from The Age - “Stopping Adani mine would pose no 'sovereign risk' to Australia, says economist Saul Eslake."

Shorten goes colder on Adani coal mine as the battle for Batman begins

Opposition Leader Bill Shorten has taken a further step toward opposing the proposed Queensland Adani coal mine as he starts campaigning for the Batman byelection, where Labor is fighting off a strong challenge from the Greens.

Bill Shorten said he had become increasingly
sceptical of Adani in recent months. 

Shorten was appearing with Labor’s candidate Ged Kearney, who on Friday resigned as ACTU president to contest the byelection.

Shorten seized on a Guardian Australia report that said Adani put in “an altered laboratory report” when appealing a fine for contamination of wetlands near the Great Barrier Reef.

Shorten said he had become increasingly sceptical of Adani in recent months.

If Adani was “relying on false information, that mine does not deserve to go ahead”.

Read the piece on The Conversation by Michelle Grattan - “Shorten goes colder on Adani coal mine as the battle for Batman begins.”

The myth that Adani coal is boom or bust for Queensland economy

There are a whole bunch of reasons why the Adani coal mine does not make sense: for the environment, the climate and on basic economics.

'Death trains' - rolling stock laden with coal will
be a common sight if the Adani mine goes ahead.

The latest results from Adani Power, revealing over the weekend a $US954 million loss ($A1.3 billion) for the last financial year, its fifth loss in a row, and a growing preference for domestic over imported coal, not to mention the endless delays and requests for government support, underline the fact that the project makes no financial sense.

And we know that on environmental and climate grounds, it makes no sense either. Rescuers minister Matt Canavan counts Adani’s benefits on the basis that the mine will last 60 years. That timeframe assumes that the world will not act on climate change.

Another myth that refuses to go away, and seems to be prosecuted by everyone from the Coalition, to the state Labor government and to the local councils, is that the Queensland economy depends on Adani and its Carmichael mine for jobs and investment, and that the region’s economy would be devastated if the mine didn’t go ahead.

Read Giles Parkinson’s story in RenewEconomy - “The myth that Adani coal is boom or bust for Queensland economy.”

Adani coal mine would wipe out Direct Action gains within a year, estimates show

The Emissions Reduction Fund is
 the centrepiece of the Australian
 Government's policy suite to
 reduce emissions.

Carbon cuts made by the federal government's Direct Action climate change plan by 2020 would be wiped out by pollution from a single coal mine in just over a year, new data revealed at a Senate estimates hearing shows.

Officials from the Clean Energy Regulator said that projects paid for from the first three auctions of the Emissions Reduction Fund – the backbone of Direct Action – would trim pollution by just 42 million tonnes of carbon-dioxide equivalent by 2020.

Even if all the remaining funds were spent – with a fourth auction planned for November 16 – emissions reductions are projected to total only 92 million tonnes by the year 2020, officials told senators.

By contrast, the Adani coal mine proposed for Queensland's Galilee Basin would trigger emissions of about 79 million tonnes a year – nullifying the ERF's pre-2020 abatement in little over a year if it proceeded.

Read Peter Hannam’s story in today’s Melbourne Age - “Adani coal mine would wipe out Direct Action gains within a year, estimates show.”