ENVIRONMENT

Clear skies for Rinehart coal

THE Queensland Court of Appeal has knocked back a challenge by an environmental group against GVK Hancock’s $A6 billion Alpha coal mine in the Galilee Basin and ordered the group to pay the costs of the miner and the state government.

Karma Barndon
The Alpha coal mine

The Alpha coal mine

Conservation group Coast and Country had argued that emissions from the transport and burning of the project's coal would contribute to dangerous global warming and adversely affect the Great Barrier Reef....

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