Mega coal mines & ports are sustainable? 350 org

Dear friend,

Have you heard? According to the newly elected Queensland Government, they can open up the Galilee Basin Mega Mines and expand the Abbot Point coal port in a way that is “environmentally sustainable.”

If you agree that’s nonsense, click here to tell the QLD Government to reject Abbot Point and the Galilee Basin mines!

Yesterday, Premier Anastasia Paluszczuk announced that dredge spoil from the Abbot Point expansion will be dumped at an industrial site, rather than on the Reef or Caley wetlands. The Premier and coal miner Adani trumpeted this as a “sustainability” victory.

A what?

In only a matter of weeks since the election, the ALP have worked hard with Adani to come up with this new dredging proposal and remove a major road block for the construction of Abbot Point.

This brings them one step closer to opening up nine mega coal mines in the Galilee Basin, turning the Marine Park in to a coal shipping highway and unleashing even greater climate impacts on our precious Reef.

If that doesn’t sound sustainable to you, make your voice heard by telling Premier Paluszczuk Government that Australians don’t want Abbot Point and the Galilee Basin Mines, not now and not ever.

Now don’t get us wrong, some things are being sustained by this plan — close ties between Government and coalminers, a readiness to endanger the world’s largest reef ecosystem and preparedness to dig up vast quantities of coal to blow the global carbon budget.

So that’s why, over the coming weeks and months, we’ll be calling for your help as we fight back this nightmare of a project. We’ll be building pressure on financiers, flexing our community power and working with our friends in the movement to do everything possible to stop this carbon bomb from going ahead.

In the meantime, we hope you’ll help us in sending a strong message to the QLD Government that there’s simply no way to get Galilee coal out of the ground and across the Reef that is even remotely sustainable.

For the climate and the Reef,

Josh, Moira and Janelle for the 350 Australia team

PS: Want to do more? Click here to call Premier Paluszczuk’s office via our friends at the AYCC.