India’s Adani Enterprises could theoretically win environmental approval for construction of the Carmichael coal mine in Australia in the next two years, a Queensland state resources official said, despite opposition from activists concerned about its impact on the Great Barrier Reef.
The firm, which plans to start producing around 10-million tonnes of coal a year and eventually ramp up to 27.5-million tonnes, has been at loggerheads with environmental activists in the eight years since the project was first proposed.