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The mine might be in North Queensland “but we all have an interest in a safe climate”, Greens MP Justin Field said.
"The Treasurer will get the message that locals join with their fellow Australians to reject not only public handouts for Adani's proposed mine but that the project is allowed at all,” he said.
"If this mega mine goes ahead, it will ignite a carbon bomb of global scale, making it difficult or near impossible to avoid catastrophic climate change.
"The mining, burning and transport of coal from Adani's Carmichael mine will fast-track global warming, threaten the Great Barrier Reef, rob billions of litres of groundwater from farmers and communities and ride roughshod over Indigenous rights.
"It's Adani's coal mine versus a safe climate for all of us – we can't have both.”
The federal government's pledge of $1 billion for a railway associated with the mega mine has been met with widespread community opposition from South Coast locals and the majority of people across Australia, according to Field.
"I'm proud to join with the community to turn up the heat on our Treasurer to stop investing in Adani's coal mine and work to stop it ever being built,” he said.
