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Adani Carmichael coal mine:  Former Indian minister sounds alarm  on Adani’s track record,  mega-mine’s viability

~ Four Corners www.abc.net.au/4corners/  By Stephen Long, Wayne Harley and Mary Fallon   www.abc.net.au/news/2017-10-02/former-minister-sounds-alarm-on-adanis-track-record-in-india/9005596

‘India’s former environment minister Jairam Ramesh is “absolutely appalled”
by the Australian Government’s approval of the Adani Group’s massive coal mine in North Queensland,
which he says will threaten the survival of the Great Barrier Reef, “a common heritage of mankind”.

‘Mr Ramesh, an elder statesman of India’s opposition Congress Party,
also said the Federal Government and Queensland Government have failed to do adequate due diligence
on Adani Group’s environmental and financial conduct in India  before granting environmental approvals and mining licenses. …

‘”You’re giving a tax break to a project that is actually going to have adverse environmental consequences,  which will have multiplying effects on weather patterns  in the region, across the world. I find it bizarre,” he said. …

Adani coal ‘will be too expensive for Indian market’
‘Australian politicians have argued India needs the coal from Adani’s Carmichael mine
in North Queensland to lift millions of India’s poor out of “energy poverty”.

‘But another respected Indian observer,  the former head of India’s Ministry of Power, E.A.S Sarma,  dismissed that as false and misguided. …

‘”We cannot afford that, it is so expensive.  My assessment is it will not be possible for the Indian market
to absorb Adani coal.” … ‘

October 2, 2017 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | AUSTRALIA - NATIONAL, climate change - global warming, Queensland