The vile Greenie economic vandals are being shoved head first into the garbage bin at long last as the essential to Australia's prosperity ADANI Coal Mine gets the Green Light everywhere. India can keep the lights on.

And all that is left is to build the Clean Coal Power Station in Nth Qld fed by good clean energy rich ADANI coal. Qld can keep the lights on.

Wonder if Bull Shorten still wants to form a "govt" with them ?





'Mockery': Turnbull government quietly cuts Adani's Abbot Point turtle controls
Peter Hannam MAY 22 2017 - 12:32AM

The Turnbull govt has quietly axed 8 environmental conditions aimed at protecting vulnerable turtle species set to be affected by Adani's proposed $3 billion coal terminal expansion at Abbot Point in Queensland.

The move by the Env Dept, signed by minister Josh Frydenberg on May 10, also modified a 9th condition that required the Indian-owned miner spend $450,000 annually to implement a marine offsets strategy. Those funds will now go to the Reef Trust, possibly from a later date.

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VIDEO: Investigation launched after coal terminal water spill

The Queensland government is investigating water spills from the Adani-owned Abbot Point coal terminal into the neighbouring Caley Valley Wetlands.
"The beaches at Abbot Point are important nesting sites for flatback turtles and the region is a high priority foraging habitat for green turtles," said Imogen Zethoven, a campaign director for the Australian Marine Conservation Society. "Both of these species are listed as vulnerable under federal and Queensland law."

Abbot Point's environment record was already under a cloud after coal sediment entered a nearby wetland and the company may have breached its temporarily elevated pollution limits during Cyclone Debbie in March.

The Terminal 0 expansion at Abbot Point is vital to service the $16 billion-plus Carmichael coal mine Adani hopes to build - with eager federal and state Labor backing- in the Galilee Basin.

At its approval in 2013 by the Abbott government, then env minister Greg Hunt declared the 95 conditions to be "some of the strictest" in Australian history. These included controls on feral pigs and dogs as part of a turtle plan and the offsets strategy to be reviewed every three years - both conditions now cut.

A spokesman for Mr Frydenberg said that description "is still accurate", with offset liability unchanged and projects that will focus on the same protection issues.

"This change is consistent with the government's 2013 election commitment to establish the Reef Trust and enable it to deliver offsets on behalf of [the Env Prot and Biodiversity Conservation] Act proponents." he said.


Turtle protections have been dropped for the Adani Abbot Point proposed Terminal]. Photo: Kathy Townsend

Opponents of the port expansion and mine say the changed conditions add to a lengthening list of concessions by the governments of Turnbull and Palaszczuk.

These include unlimited groundwater rights, a possible federal loan of some $1 billion to link the mine and port, and a potential $320 million royalties holiday expected to be discussed at a state cabinet meeting on Monday.


Abbot Point's proposed terminal 0 in Queensland would serve the company's giant Carmichael mine if it gets built.

'Their request'
An Adani spokesman said the EPBC amendments had been at the government's "request and direction" to align conditions with the Reef Trust.

"The new condition is not an easing of requirements," he said. "The same payment amount is required, for the same period and for the same purpose.

But Larissa Waters, the deputy Greens leader, said "the gifts for this billionaire company from Labor and the Liberals keep stacking up".

"Will any future breach of conditions be simply excused and waved through?", Sen Waters said. "Cutting out huge chunks out of Adani's conditions makes a mockery of Lib and Labor claims that this project is governed by 'strict' conditions."

Tony Burke, Labor's federal env minister, said minister Frydenberg "really needs to explain this one".

"If there has been any weakening of conditions [under the EPBC Act], I don't see how that could be justified," Mr Burke said. "How is it possible for conditions affecting turtles and the Great Barrier Reef to be weakened during a time when the health of the reef has only declined?"

Offsets offside
The Qld govt is expected to finalise soon its own report into Abbot Point's handling of pollution during the cyclone, a category-4 storm the company has described as a one-in-500-year event.

Ms Zethoven said the whole concept of offsets was itself against the World Heritage convention that Australia had signed up for.

The convention states government are supposed to protect or improve sites, she said. It doesn't say "you can damage here provided you substitute over there".

http://www.smh.com.au/environment/mockery-turnbull-government-quietly-cuts-adani...

There's my STATUS SYMBOL TROLL MM following me around like a bad ...

It is sad to see such ignorance displayed by my very boring uninformed STATUS SYMBOL TROLL paw MM. Good boy pat pat.

The blissful ignorance of my STATUS SYMBOL TROLL MM is just beyond comprehension. Then he is a LEFTY.

Gee whizz!! it doesn't rain it pours trolls as I now have 2 STATUS SYMBOL TROLLS MM and Paw S. chasing me around. Gosh I feel SO important!

Wonder if the politically correct Paw Stunned feels for the worms that used to live in the soil under her home ?

BigOld,

The MM couldn't lie straight in bed. Just recites rubbish copied from the Greenie Propaganda Sites.

But enough of boring trolls, back to the TOPIC.


ADANI gives BIG steel contract to Wyalla. And coal is needed to make Steel you grossly technically ignorant Greenie fungal parasites.

Chris Pyne is looking after his home state SA.





Arrium inks $73m deal with Indian giant Adani to supply 800km Queensland rail line
Luke Griffiths, The Advertiser May 4, 2017 9:19am

It's all go at ADANI
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    Dozens of new jobs created at Arrium
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WHYALLA steelmaker Arrium has been given a major boost after inking a $73 million contract with an Indian mining company to supply 800km of rail line.

Arrium has been in the hands of administrator Kor daMentha for over a year.

It will supply 56,000 tonnes to build a double-tracked rail line over two and a half years.

The deal, to be announced in Whyalla on Thursday, is a signed undertaking to give Arrium Steel the monopoly to supply the material for a double-tracked rail link between Adani’s Queensland Carmichael mine site and a port at Abbot Point.

It’s a huge boost for debt-laden Arrium, which employs over 3000 people in Whyalla, with administrator KordaMentha involved in the final stages of sales process of some of its assets. Adani said the deal was not dependant on whether it secured a $1 billion loan from the Federal Government Northern Australia Infrastructure Fund to build the railway.


Adani Group founder and chairman Gautam Adani with Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull in New Delhi last month.

Gautam Adani, the boss of the giant Indian conglomerate, has told Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull the company would be applying for the loan to build the railway to link the $21 billion line to the port.

A number of Federal Government representatives will attend Thursday’s announcement, including Nationals’ leader Barnaby Joyce and Minister for Resources Matthew Canavan.

They will be joined by local state MP Eddie Hughes and KordaMentha executives, including Mark Mentha.

The Adani project has been a contentious one, with Westpac recently ruling out funding the project.

The State Government has previously committed to a grant of $50 million for a capital upgrade of the aged steelworks, while Canberra offered a $49.2 million loan.


Arrium steel plant in Whyalla.

This week, Arrium announced that 44 new jobs had been created in the steelworks’ rolling mill courtesy of an increase in demand, which has come about due to stricter government controls on the importation of steel products and the Federal Government rail projects.

Liberty House and Posco remain in the race to purchase Arrium.

A tentative date of June 30 has been flagged for the completion of the sale, which includes a number of East Coast based operations.

Westpac is unlikely to fund Adani mine

On Wednesday, Minister for Resources and Northern Australia Matt Canavan implored Federal Labor leader Bill Shorten and his Queensland counterpart Annastacia Palaszczuk to keep an open mind on coal-fired power stations.

His comments came after the Gladstone Regional Council wrote to Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull to express support for a coal-fired power station be built in Gladstone.

“I am calling on Bill Shorten and Annastacia Palaszczuk to defy their Canberra coalition partners, the Greens, and listen to regional Queenslanders,” Mr Canavan said.

The Adani announcement follows last year’s fast-tracking by the Federal Government of the Adelaide-Tarcoola rail line.

Both projects are worth roughly the same in monetary terms and it is understood the Adani project would be completed over two-plus years, providing a strong pipeline of work.

http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/business/jobs/arrium-inks-73m-deal-with-indian-gia...

I am on the side of the Turtles.

BigOld,

The vile Greenies don't give a damn about the turtles, they are just an excuse, any excuse, to try to stop a development in Australia.

The Greenie fungus are trying unsuccessfully to implement its sick Socialist AGENDA 2030.

The sick diseased Greenie fungi are hitting brick walls everywhere they turn now as they are now recognized as nothing but an hostile untreated flesh eating disease in Australia feeding on taxpayer funded Welfare.

Are the climatically confused globally warmed Greenie imbeciles concerned about the trees that used to grow where their houses are now ?