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
You’ll get better value jobs by boosting our environment and nurturing tourism.
Come on Anna. Pull your Big Girl Panties up and do the right and decent thing by Queenslanders and our environment. Kick Adani and his thugs out of the country.
Please do the right thing for my family and other Australia’s.
How dare you consider spending my tax money to reduce costs for a foreign private interest? Make them pay through the nose if they want to mine our resources.
No access to public funds was the election promise this mine is so terribly wrong on so many levels. ADANI ARE CORRUPT. THE RISK TO ENVIRONMENT NOT MENTION TOURISM IS TOO GREAT
Please do not let this environmental travesty happen.
The election promise of no taxpayer money going to Adani seems ridiculous now, almost a complete lie. Adani pays no corporate tax, won’t have to pay for groundwater and now royalty free for how long? The mine makes the QLD state NOTHING. Virtually no jobs, no taxes and sucks up water to the tune of one and a half times the national suburban home usage. Read that again. NATIONAL home water usage.
Do not use our money for this environmental vandal. I am losing total credibility with this government and will not vote for lnp. Looking at options
It is time all levels of governments are held criminally liable for environmental destruction and the extinction of native flora and fauna as a result of their policies and decisions.
Annastacia please don’t condemn your people, state and country to this Adani mob. They do not have the planets best interest at heart and I think the Earth’s best interests are incredibly important for our survival as a species let alone the Koalas. If they build a giant solar array instead and solve global warming then give them a couple of beers.
Stick to your election promise – not one cent!