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Bravus Mining has responded to a conservation group’s claim that construction sites on the Carmichael mine rail corridor has resulted in “serious pollution and environmental damage”. Mackay Conservation Group alleges conditions the Queensland Coordinator General imposed on Adani’s North Galilee Basin Rail Project to protect nearby waterways from contamination may have been breached. The group said this was because Bravus had failed to properly prepare construction sites on the rail...

“Adani Australia apologises to Mr Daines for any hurt or distress this post may have caused.” Daines has been based for more than three years at a protest camp close to the construction of the mine in Queensland’s Galilee basin, which will dig up coal for export to power stations. Screenshots of the original post, seen by Guardian Australia, said “anti-coal activists have thrown rocks at our people’s utes as they travelled to work this morning and kicked their car doors.” Daines, wh...

Three protesters suffered heatstroke and fatigue symptoms after locking themselves to machinery at a Central Queensland quarry. Alexander Braham Bloom, 32, Leon Walker Pateman, 23, and Pia Pascual Truslove, 33, each used a sleeping dragon attachment device to halt operations at Bravus Mining and Resources’ (Adani) quarry, located about 160km north of Clermont. Police arrived at 9am and told them to release but they refused to do so in efforts to protest their views against Bravus. Sgt Cramp...

After COVID we may never think about hotels in the same way again 1413 ); In Australia, New Zealand and around the world, COVID has turned luxury and semi-luxury hotels into quarantine facilities. Among the four and five-star hotels reported as having been used for temporary detention are Sydney’s Intercontinental, Marriott, Hyatt Regency, Sheraton Grand, Sofitel Wentworth and Novotel Darling Harbour; Auckland’s Rydges, Crowne Plaza, Grand Millennium, Four Points by Sheraton and Ramada; an...

How COVID Could Change the Way Australians Think About Hotels Many five-star big-name hotels have been turned into quarantine facilities, which may disabuse future hotel guests of their notions of luxury. In Australia, New Zealand and around the world, COVID has turned luxury and semi-luxury hotels into quarantine facilities. Among the four and five-star hotels reported as having been used for temporary detention are Sydney’s Intercontinental, Marriott, Hyatt Regency, Sheraton Grand, Sofitel ...

Australia is the last Western holdout on the climate crisis. But some states and businesses are calling for change CNN 12/28/2020 By Helen Regan, CNN © Tom Jefferson/Greenpeace The beginning of the Carmichael River, which will be cut by the void of the Carmichael Coal mine. Deep in northeast Australias outback, underneath grassy eucalypt woodlands and vast grazing lands scattered with cattle stations, lies one of the worlds largest known untapped coal reserves. Queensland...

Premium Content Subscriber only This year will probably go down in the history books as one of the most eventful in modern history. For some, it was a year they would like to forget. But for others, it was an opportunity to start afresh. No matter how much you were affected by the global COVID-19 pandemic, there is no doubt that 2020 was quite the rollercoaster ride for the human race. From the fallout of coronavirus to disasters we never saw coming and the moments that made us proud to ca...

20 December 2020 The world’s coal emissions are set to blow past climate targets in 2025, with Australia playing a key role in supply, finds a new report released this weekend by the International Energy Agency (IEA). The Coal 2020 analysis details forecasts out to 2025, and finds that global coal demand will rebound slightly in 2021, but will remain essentially flat out to 2025. Increasing demand in Asian countries will offset structural declines in coal use in other parts of the world. “A...

Advertisement Bravus Mining and Resources has begun laying its 200 km railway line in Central Queensland this week and the track will be Australian-made. Bravus CEO, David Boshoff, said the materials for the track, including the girders, steel, sleepers and ballast were all produced in Australia, and the contractors building the railway were also all local. “We always said the Carmichael Project would create Australian jobs and benefit local businesses and this is yet another example of how w...