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Coral or coal decision looms for Australia's Great Barrier Reef
2014-01-30 08:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Australia's Great Barrier Reef watchdog is to decide by Friday whether to allow millions of cubic meters of dredged mud to be dumped near the fragile reef to create the world's biggest coal port and possibly unlock $28 billion in coal projects. A dumping permit would allow a major expansion of the port of Abbot Point for two Indian firms and Australian billionaire miner Gina Rinehart, who together have $16 billion worth of coal projects in the untapped, inland Galilee Basin. The Galilee Basin...
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