Environment - The Adani/Bravus mine

In our environmental series with Dorothee Babeck we are talking about the proposed Carmichael coal mine in Queensland's Galilee Basin. The company Adani, which changed its name to Bravus a few weeks ago after violations or "misinterpretations" of the environmental permit conditions, submitted the first plans for the world's largest mine, along with the necessary harbour on the Barrier Reef, back in 2010. Since then, there has been a dispute about whether and under what conditions the coal mine should be approved. Our environmental specialist Dorothee Babeck explains the background, the developments in the field of approval procedures and licences, the efforts of the more than 300 groups of climate and environmental activists who are campaigning against the mine - about what mining would mean for the GBR and the Artesian Basin, i.e. the underground water supply, what the indigenous population thinks about it and who actually benefits from it.

Dorothee Babeck, unsere Gesprächspartnerin für Umweltfragen Source: Dorothee Babeck

Doro (2. von links) mit Dr Kerryn Phelps AM, MP und zwei weiteren Mitstreitern Source: Dorothee Babeck