Antinuclear

What links yakka skinks, Standard Chartered bank and the president of Kiribati?
They are all some of the recent obstacles to the Carmichael coal mine – a proposed project in the Galilee Basin of Queensland, Australia, that could become one of the world’s biggest sources of carbon dioxide emissions.

The A$16.5 billion coal mine was approved by the Australian government in 2014, and is being developed by Indian company Adani Mining. It is expected to start operating in 2017 and run for 90 years, producing 60 million tonnes of coal a year when operating at full capacity.
Controversy
This would make it Australia’s largest coal mine, as well as one of the largest in the world. Its production would be equivalent to around 5% of global coal exports. Burning this amount of coal would produce 128.4 million tonnes of carbon dioxide (MtCO2) a year – roughly equivalent to the emissions…