1) Destroy the ancestral lands, waters and cultures of Indigenous people without their consent.
2) Allow 500 more coal ships to travel through the Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area every year for 60 years.
3) Get access to 270 billion litres of Queensland's precious groundwater for 60 years, for free.
4) Risk damaging aquifers of the Great Artesian Basin.
5) Add 4.6 billion tonnes of carbon pollution to our atmosphere.
Critically, if allowed to go ahead, Adani’s Carmichael coal mine will unlock the Galilee Basin - one of the world's largest untouched coal reserves - paving the way for at least eight more coal mines to be built. All at a time when scientists are warning we can't build any more fossil fuel infrastructure if we want to avoid catastrophic global heating.
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