australia: Price, uttering words almost certainly never before heard from the ranks of the current federal Coalition, said she had accepted the scientific advice of the CSIRO and Geoscience Australia, that Adani's revised plans met strict scientific requirements. adsbygoogle window.adsbygoogle .push ; Following this independent assessment and the Department of Environment and Energy's recommendation for approval, I have accepted the scientific advice and therefore approved the groundwater management plans under Environmental Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999, the minister said, according to Australian Broadcasting Corporation. The green light from Price does not as the minister herself went on to stress amount to the final approval for the massive and controversial project in Queensland's Galilee Basin. Federal environment minister Melissa Price said on Tuesday she had given her approval for the groundwater management plans for the Carmichael Coal Mine and Rail Infrastructure project planned by Indian conglomerate Adani Group for northern Queensland. A number of further approvals are required from the Queensland government, and it must meet further stringent conditions of approval from the Commonwealth before it can begin producing coal. Indeed, the latest controversy around the coal mine comes amid reports Queensland LNP senator James McGrath threatened to call for the environment minister's job if she did not give the all-clear on the groundwater management plans. But it does clear another major hurdle for the hugely controversial project, which among other things has been described as a massive carbon bomb that would effectively cancel out the annual emissions reductions of Australia and New Zealand, many times over.
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