As bushfires rage across the country, the Queensland government is considering a secret deal with Adani that could mean the coal corporation pockets hundreds of millions of dollars of public money for its climate-wrecking mine.
Analysis by The Australia Institute shows Adani’s special coal royalty deal could be worth between $250 and $700 million dollars. The Palaszczuk Government has refused to reveal the terms of this shady arrangement, claiming it’s too confidential for us to know about.
Our elected representatives have a responsibility to create a future where our communities, reef and wildlife thrive, not prop up dirty coal.
Add your name to this open letter to send the Premier a clear message — no dirty royalty deal for Adani:
“Dear Premier,
During the last Queensland election you promised there would be no public money for Adani’s climate-wrecking coal mine.
If Adani’s mine goes ahead it would unleash billions of tonnes of pollution, at a time when we must rapidly phase out coal and take urgent action on the climate crisis.
We ask you to keep your election promise and not cut a special royalty deal with Adani.”
Photo: #ClimateStrike on 3 May 2019. Credit: School Strike
Latest Supporters
Dear ALP QLD Premier. Adani should never commence, and neither should the other adjoining Hancock, Palmer and other mines, which will open a giant hole the size of Great Britain. We all know that little old Adani , is just the tip of the iceberg, don’t we?
Please do not cut a special deal with Adani.
Thermal coal is one of the main contributors to greenhouse gases being released to our atmosphere, last year alone 40 million tons of methane was released from all the coal mines around the world. Add the carbon gases Australia is one of the leaders in emissions. Please do the right thing for our children, otherwise they will not have a future. Look at what is happening! Our planet is heating and rainforests are burning. Adani has poisoned every thing he has touched, look at India! Keep the coal in the ground.
If you don’t care for the future of out children, look at it in a monetary way. Demand for thermal coal is going down. How about throwing some money at renewables and create jobs in that sector. Become a leader in this rather than dirty coal
Leave the filthy reef-destroying water guzzling coal in the ground. Adani is a greedy climate wrecking behemoth and I don’t want a cent of public money going to them. Enough is enough.
Listen to your Labor grassroots and say NO to Adani.
Leave the coal in the ground. Protect the Galilee Basin and the reef. Embrace renewables. That’s where the future lies. That’s where the jobs will be.
This madman must be stopped. Save country and water.
I do not want my tax money given to a greedy self serving environmental vandal.
I want Adani stopped because it will contribute to climate change, it will have a disastrous effect on the Great Barrier Reef and cause damage to the ecosystem near the mine. Our money should now be spent on renewable energy, wind, solar, etc, not coal!
Adani is a disaster waiting do the right thing QLD government think of that future of the planet not your big pockets we need to start thinking more about our planet before it’s to late and protect the reef our greatest natural wonder stop Adani save the planet NOW!!!!!!!!!
Stop this Adani mine as it will destroy Queensland
Try listening to your constituents for something new and interesting! you’re worse than the liberals.
How can these projects be good for Queensland and Australia if governments fail to collect royalties?
We will be wealthier without coal mines
, don’t give any water and or royalties to environmental destroyer and stay off aboriginal land sites, and adani free state land.
In this day and age the last thing we need is a massive coalmine. Didn’t you notice all those firesin your state?
There are only economic and severe environmental impacts to Australia and Queensland if this Adani mine goes ahead. No special royalty deal. Honour your election promise, no public money for Adani coal mine.
stop before it is too late