Case centres on whether proposed Galilee Coal Project would harm climate and limit human rights
. The proposed mine is about 100km from Adani’s Carmichael project and would require much of its own supporting infrastructure.plans to build two open-cut pits, four underground mines – removing 40m tonnes a year – and a 453km railway linking the project to the Adani-owned Abbot Point coal terminal near Bowen.
“The attempt by the proponent at financial gain on the collapsing coal market is not cost free,” Holt said.In a brief opening statement, Peter Ambrose QC, acting for Waratah Coal, said “climate change is real” but that the coal at the site was “high-energy producing” and would ultimately result in fewer greenhouse gas emissions.
Holt told the court that in Waratah Coal’s own environmental impact statement from more than a decade ago, the company argued the need for the project was based on the “demand for the coal resource.” “The climate scientists have identified possible future scenarios in which humanity ceases burning coal … those scenarios can exist without this coalmine, but they cannot exist with it,” Holt said.
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