Australian PM backs Adani’s mine project

Melbourne, March 7

Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull today strongly supported Indian energy giant Adani’s controversial 16.5 billion dollar coal mine in Queensland, saying the project has gone through extensive environmental permitting and should go ahead.

Adani’s Carmichael mine and rail project in the untapped Galilee Basin has been held up by lack of financing and a barrage of legal challenges by green groups concerned about climate change.

Speaking at a business forum in Sydney, Turnbull said “This is a project that has gone through extensive environmental permitting both at the state level and federal level, mostly state.” “All of those permitting has been done and it has taken a very long time...They (Adani) are entitled to develop it in accordance with those permits,” Turnbull said. — PTI