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Adani – Interactive cost, environmental impacts, jobs and the future

May 15, 2019

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Interactive: Everything you need to know about Adani – from cost, environmental impact and jobs to its possible future

ABC News: Nationwide, a majority of voters are against building the Adani coal mine

The Morrison Government gave it the final federal approvals before going into caretaker mode, reportedly after pressure from some Queensland Liberal National MPs, leaving the future of the project in the hands the State Labor Government, which is still mulling over approvals for Adani’s groundwater and black-throated finch management plans.

The level of opposition in the Vote Compass results was consistently high across most demographics: men, women, level of education, income, language spoken at home and religion. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-05-16/federal-election-vote-compass-adani-mine-response/11110408

Support for the Adani mine is strongest in rural Queensland, but even there it’s not a majority

Proportion of Vote Compass responses to the statement: “The Adani coal mine in Queensland’s Galilee Basin should be built,” by Queensland region.

Interactive: Everything you need to know about Adani – from cost, environmental impact and jobs to its possible future

File 20190510 183112 euz2bs.png?ixlib=rb 1.1 — It’s a 50km long patch in the middle of Queensland that’s causing a lot of trouble, but many people couldn’t even point it out on a map.
Queensland Government – Coordinated Projects Map

Madeleine De Gabriele, The Conversation; Michael Hopkin, The Conversation, and Wes Mountain, The Conversation

The Adani Carmichael coal mine has been an election issue across state and federal politics since 2016.

Despite bipartisan support, it defined the November 2017 Queensland election, has shaped federal by-elections since and prompted protests in almost every Australian state and territory – including a convoy that has made its way up to the neighbouring town of Clermont all the way from Tasmania.

So given it’s gone through several revisions thanks to issues with funding and environmental approvals, what does the proposed mine look like now?

This is a heavily revised version of the graphic originally created for the 2017 Queensland state election.

It will be updated as new information becomes available.

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Madeleine De Gabriele, Deputy Editor: Energy + Environment, The Conversation; Michael Hopkin, Acting Editor, FactCheck, The Conversation, and Wes Mountain, Multimedia Editor, The Conversation

This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article.