Adani Mining CEO Lucas Dow has told Sky News he’s frustrated over the ‘eleventh hour’ red tape the Queensland Government has produced, stalling the beginning of the company's mine in the Galilee Basin.
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Canavan criticises groups opposing Queensland's Adani coalmine | Sky News AustraliaResources Minister Matt Canavan has slammed groups opposing major projects such as Queensland’s Adani Coalmine, arguing the project supports the local economy and creates jobs. \n\nThe Greens have proposed a bill that would ban mining in the Galilee Basin, putting up to 20,000 jobs at stake. \n\nMr Canavan told Sky News a small minority of groups are abusing the environmental management system to stop resources projects. \n\nImage: News Corp Australia\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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Thousands apply for a job at Qld's Adani coal mine | Sky News AustraliaMore than 14,000 people have expressed interest in working at the Adani Carmichael mine in Queensland. \n\nMore than 5,000 people who lodged interest were unemployed, and 4,000 of those unemployed for more than a month. \n\nWith above six per cent unemployment in the state, Queensland has the second highest unemployment rate in the country. \n\nIf the mine is approved, it is expected to create 1,500 direct jobs and 6,750 supporting jobs. \n\n\n\n
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‘Hysterical' campaign against Adani ignores Queenslanders ‘desperate’ for jobs | Sky News AustraliaSky News host Andrew Bolt says the activists against the Adani mine are ignoring unemployed Queenslanders that are ‘desperate’ for jobs.\n\nMr Bolt says the mine would generate 8000 jobs, earning Australia millions of dollars in royalties and taxes, that could be used for hospitals, schools and the police force.\n\nThe Queensland Labor government is more than $70 billion in debt, and Mr Bolt says the profits for the mine would benefit taxpayers looking at the state’s ‘dangerous deficit’.\n\n\n\n\n
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Government rejects UN's Adani intervention | Sky News AustraliaThe Federal Government will write to the United Nations to reject its opposition of the Adani coal mine, saying it had displayed a fundamental misunderstanding of Australian law.\n\nThe UN has called for a halt to the project as it had not been approved by all native title claimants.\n\n Resources Minister Matt Canavan told Sky News the UN has been conned by activists and had offended the majority of traditional owners who supported the project. \n\nImage: News Corp Australia \n\n\n\n\n\n
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UN calls for Australia to suspend Adani project amid concerns over Indigenous rightsThe United Nations asks the Australian Government to consider suspending the Adani project in central Queensland until it gains the support of a group of traditional owners who are fighting the miner in court.
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Five arrested over Brazil mining dam collapse as community demands answersBrazilians are searching for justice as the dead continued to be recovered from the sludge.
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