Melbourne: Billionaire Gautam Adani has received the last two crucial environment clearances needed to start work on the hotly contested Carmichael coal mine project in Queensland, Australia. In a statement, the Adani group said that Adani Australia received its final environmental approvals needed to begin work on its Carmichael mine in central Queensland. We’re ready to start work on the Carmichael project and deliver the jobs these regions so badly need." Adani Enterprises had in 2010 bought the greenfield Carmichael coal mine in the Galilee Basin of Queensland and the Abbot Point port near Bowen in the north. The coal mine is expected to produce 2.3 billion tonnes of coal over its lifetime, or 10 million tonnes every year.

Source: Mint June 13, 2019 04:16 UTC