‘Beggars belief’: calls for federal intervention after extension to ‘carbon bomb’ open-cut coalmine approved by Queensland government
by Donna Lu Assistant editor, climate, environment an from World news | The Guardian on (#7469F)
Hail Creek is responsible for about 20% of Australia's coalmine methane, while only producing 1% of the country's coal
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Environmental groups have called on the federal government to intervene after Australia's most methane-polluting open-cut coalmine was approved for extension.
A proposed expansion of the Hail Creek coalmine in central Queensland, described by conservationists as a carbon bomb", was backed by the state's government on Wednesday.
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