Clive Palmer’s company Waratah Coal, has renewed plans to build a coal mine four times bigger than Adani’s Carmichael project in Queensland’s Galilee Basin.
Waratah Coal won federal government environmental approval for its Galilee Coal project in 2013, but has not progressed its proposal until now, alarming environmentalists and landlords.
Mr Palmer’s company has applied to the Queensland Government for a mining licence and environmental authorisation to build two open-cut pits and four underground mines, to produce 40 million tonnes of coal a year.