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Thank god.

Better late than never 😊

Also never give up

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Good.

We should have moved away from natural resources to renewable energy a long time ago.

They should just build it outside the environment

The real question, why are people even trying to open coal mines? The entire industry needs to die

Rejected? The people who proposed this should be locked up and examined for sone kind of mental defect, there’s no way a rational sane person would propose this.

An underwater coal mine? I’m confused?

They have to know their days are numbered, so I'm sure they're trying to squeeze out every last penny for their pockets

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It’s called greed.

Lmao. They should be punished for even asking.

Good

Until they give money to someone and ask again

Seems like a distraction attempt to me. Start off trying to build a coal mine on the reef (how does that even work, is it underwater?), then "compromise" by building it in some other ecologically sensitive area instead (which is where they wanted to build all along). The coal company gets its coal, the government gets to brag about how it stood up to Big Coal, and the earth gets fucked

Wow… politics is still able to produce intelligent results.

in response, they have decided to approve a clean up operation to get all that nasty coal out of there.

to ease the cleanup cost, the waste coal will be sold on the open market.

in the event the coal cleanup project turns a profit, excess funds will be returned to the investors who made the cleanup possible.

And not just any old coal mine, but a coal mine next to the Great Barrier Reef.

Imagine being apart of the company who thought of that application, let alone applied it, and somehow not realising how much you sound like a parody of a Captain Planet villain.

That sounds about right.

I hope this sets an important precedent.

Suck it Scott Morrison!

Thank Science. God got us into this mess

Time to start turning em into trees.

You must be fun at parties...

It wasn't going to be in the ocean. It was close to the ocean and would have dumped crap into the freshwater that ran into the ocean. Essentially destroying the ecosystem on the coast and leading into the reef.

Real original comment. Too bad it doesnt make sense in this context. Stop parroting other peoples comments and think for yourself

not true

Your original comment added nothing to the discussion.

You're right. Fuck religion

So doesn't yours lmao

It's all a race the the bottom, and I plan on winning.

I appreciate people who make the correct decisions.

Near. Near the reef, not in it. It's by the coast where the reef sits just offshore, and would contaminate freshwater that flows out to sea and into the reef.

As long as the front doesn't fall off

I am 100% sure the Bible says to take care of the Earth; I don't think it says to open as many coal Mines as possible. Neoliberals got us into this mess.

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Somehow even stupider than the other guys comment

Just when you think there’s a dumb comment, someone turns up in a car that looks like a dog head.

Uh how is it not science that got us into this mess?

the well known verse, Mining 4:17 “Thou shall strike thy earth.”

Science both gets us in and out of things, so you're both correct.

At this point in history all coal mines should be rejected.

It’s about damned time.

Not to say i support coal mines and especially not next to something as important as the great barrier reef, but yall need to remember that 3rd world countries exist. Its easy for someone from a developed nation to say the coal industry should just die, but for many countries its all they have. They are developing and given 50-100 years coal will hopefully be entirely phased out but as it stands now many countries NEED coal because its all they can realistically use to generate power.

Well that's new...

As usual the Libs go for the old saw "dem jerbs"

More and more mines are automated these days. How many actual jobs would this mine have created, as opposed to how many people are employed by tourism for the great barrier reef?

Many years ago there was a plan to log the Daintree Forrest, which, at the time was going to bring in 30 million dollars A year. Except that it would create run off that would again destroy the reef and local tourism operators created 120 million dollars of business every year.

as a physicist/science teacher, I gotta say it was entirely science that got us into this mess lol. The carnot cycle was the beginning of the end for a stable climate.

I love science but lets not point the finger at imaginary culprits when the real one is right here

Good

Well yay!!

What do you mean God?

Proposed by none other than that scumbag "I'm rich and can do what I want !" Clive Trump Palmer

The guys name is Clive Palmer and he’s a fucking moron. Still hasn’t paid his workers from awhile ago

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Coal is dying, the only thing currently propping it up is subsidies

Thank fucking Christ. I mean who is opening coal mines in this day and age ffs? Do they not get enough sunshine in a country with desert everywhere to maybe open a solar farm instead?

Deregeristering his stupid political party was terrific news

Iirc it was only going to be ~300 jobs for the couple of years of construction then bugger all operations jobs but people still wanted this stupid shit to go ahead

A coal mine in 2023? Should be rejected, barrier reef or no.

Such good news. Hope that fat cunt Palmer fucks right off

One down, 117 to go.

The fact that this was ever even a suggestion is a travesty.

Unfortunately, too many people don't do their homework, and so they have been in the past stirred up by the "greenies just want to take our jobs"

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