Article 5TT5D After Adani: whatever happened to Queensland’s Galilee basin coal boom?

After Adani: whatever happened to Queensland’s Galilee basin coal boom?

by
Graham Readfearn
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Only the controversial Carmichael mine has opened, while a dozen other projects are shelved, lapsed or discontinued

Queensland's huge untapped Galilee coal basin was touted as a jobs and revenue bonanza by its supporters, with the potential to liberate hundreds of millions of tonnes of harmful greenhouse gases.

The Galilee's potential as a carbon bomb" was wrapped up in a dozen or more coalmining projects and estimates of billions of dollars of investment.

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