Article 2WQ5N Matt Canavan on Q&A: exporting Adani coal does not affect Australia's emissions

Matt Canavan on Q&A: exporting Adani coal does not affect Australia's emissions

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Joshua Robertson
from Environment | The Guardian on (#2WQ5N)

Resources minister tells Q&A audience Adani's Queensland mine would not stop Australia meeting its Paris climate change commitments because the coal is burned overseas

The federal minister Matthew Canavan has defended government support for Adani's Carmichael mine by saying coal burned overseas will not stop Australia meeting its Paris climate commitments.

Canavan also denied the prime minister, Malcolm Turnbull, had politicised the defence force by using a backdrop of masked soldiers to announce plans to enable military handling of domestic terrorist threats, telling the ABC's Q&A program it wasn't a "campaign announcement".

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