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7 December 2016: "The  Wangan and Jagalingou Traditional Owners Council have announced a further action in their legal line of defence of their lands and rights against the imposition of Adani’s “mine of mass destruction”. They also expressed offence at multi-billionaire Gautam Adani’s failure to meet with them during his visit to Australia to spruik the Carmichael coal mine project, one of the biggest worldwide. Leading Aboriginal rights advocate, primary W&J Traditional Owner and Council spokesperson, Adrian Burragubba, says, “We are constructing a legal line of defence because the Queensland government and Adani are trying to bulldoze us aside. We will not stand by while they sing from the same song sheet about their grandiose but hollow plans.

“We are acting in the courts to stop this destructive project. Our people, the Australian community, and the world deserve better than this cavalier, unjust and outdated approach to our shared future.”

W&J youth leader and council spokesperson, Ms. Murrawah Johnson, says, “It is our obligation as Traditional Owners to safeguard the future for our people and secure our lands and waters against this ‘mine of mass destruction’. The W&J Council members have vowed to do everything in our power to stop the mine proceeding, and we will take our concerns to the High Court if necessary.

“We are not easily intimidated. We will fight this mine until Mr Adani and his people pack their bags and head home,” she said.

Lawyer for the supreme court appeal and other matters, Colin Hardie says, “There are  reasonable grounds for my clients to argue that they were denied natural justice by the Minister for Mines in the issuing of the mining leases for the Carmichael Mine.

“The denial of natural justice can create significant costs and cause distress to Traditional Owners, leading to a profound devaluing of their native title to land and waters."


Is the rush to approve one of the world’s biggest coal mines delusion or corruption?

 
7 December 2016: "Not everything in politics is complex and difficult. There are some policy issues that are remarkably simple. Stunningly obvious, even. No-brainers, you might call them.

"One example of a no-brainer is the Carmichael coal mine in central Queensland.

"When it comes to no-brainer policy issues, it doesn’t get much easier than this. Should we allow one of the world’s largest coal mines to be built in Queensland?

"No, we shouldn’t. No government should, especially not the governments of Queensland and Australia. It doesn’t make sense on any level: economically, environmentally, socially … even politically.

“And we certainly shouldn’t be lending $1 billion of taxpayer’s money to build it."


Clean energy to create 90,000 Queensland jobs

8 December 2016: Strong action on climate change and clean energy would generate 90,000 new jobs across Queensland by 2030, tens of thousands more than the Adani coal mine, greens groups say.

The research released by the Australian Conservation Foundation, and based on modelling by the National Institute of Economic and Industry Research, claims many of those jobs would be created in regional Queensland."


Clean energy policies would create tens of thousands more Queensland jobs than Adani

'The real jobs boom in Queensland is in clean energy and protecting the 70,000 jobs that depend on a healthy Great Barrier Reef, not in Adani’s reef-wrecking coal mine.'

8 December 2016: "New research shows strong clean energy policies would create 90,000 new jobs across Queensland by 2030 – many tens of thousands more than even the most bullish backers of Adani’s proposed Carmichael coal project say the mine would create."


Coal price rally puts Adani Power under catastrophic financial pressure

8 December 2016: Investigates of reports on whether Adani is proceeding with its plans for a mega-coal-mine in Queensland. "RECENTLY, there has been a bit of heat around Adani and their plan to build a mega-mine in central Queensland. So, when the stories came out I scanned them with interest, but could find no confirmable fact indicating that anything had changed."


Adani's mega mine neither financially viable nor justified, says energy analyst

8 December 2016: "Adani's mega coal mine in north Queensland is neither "financially viable nor strategically required" an energy commentator claims."