Official launch of Carmichael mine cancelled due to weather concerns

Gautam Adani was expected to attend the ceremony to break ground at the mine of Friday.

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The official launch ceremony for Adani’s mega mine and rail project has been cancelled due to bad weather.

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News.com.au has reported that Adani chairman Gautam Adani was supposed to break ground on the coal mine at a ceremony on Friday. It is said that Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce was also expected to attend. However, due to concerns regarding weather, the ceremony was cancelled to be scheduled at another, still to be decided date.

On the other hand, people opposing the Carmichael mine are vowing to block the construction in every way possible. Australian Green’s leader Richard Di Natale has also commented that thousands of people will try to stop its construction in Queensland’s Galilee Basin. He has even said that he is willing to get arrested to ensure the construction does not go ahead.

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The Townsville City Council has spent around $18.5 million dollars to build a remote airstrip to support the mine, an act, that thousands of people have condemned by siging an online petition.

Although, the Indian company has said that they will commence work on the multibillion-dollar project within says, Senator Di Natale has maintained his view that the construction will never go ahead.

“If we can’t stop it in the parliament, we’ll stop it by standing in front of those bulldozers,” he told Sky News on Sunday. “It won’t go ahead, I’m very confident of that. No financier wants to pay for it, it can only go ahead with massive subsidies.”

Weeks earlier, activists had also launched Adani Free Zones across Australia in their fight to stop Adani’s mine. The Galilee Blockade group had asked all the local councils in the Northern Rivers region of NSW not to enter into contracts with companies like Downer who have an interest in Adani mine.

Senator Di Natale said the mine would be an environmental disaster that would destroy tourism jobs in Queensland.

“If it does go ahead and the pollution that’s released from that mine goes ahead, we can say goodbye to the Great Barrier Reef and the 70,000 jobs that depend on it,” he said.

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But a spokesman for Queensland premier Annastacia Palaszczuk said the $21.7 billion coal mine and rail project has more than 200 conditions attached to protect the environment.

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