The proposed $1 billion loan granted to a coal mining company by Adani Group has provoked over 300 concerned Australians on December 5, 2016. Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull's concession to fund the industrial enterprise is deemed potentially hazardous against the Great Barrier Reef.
This budget is intended for the construction of a 310km railway that connects Adani's quarry in Galilee Basin to a seaport along Queensland's eastern coastline. The protest is fueled by the environmental hazards of exploiting the land's natural resources.
Based on the article published by The Guardian, the director of Australian Conservation Foundation strongly opposes the decision to fund the mining infrastructure because it simply goes against Turnbull's electoral pledge to safeguard the country's ecological treasures. Simply put it, to propose coal energy as an eco-friendly resource is, by analogy, promoting tobacco abuse for lung cancer treatment.
So @gautam_adani there's a few people here who are not so keen on your mine #reefnotcoal #adani pic.twitter.com/Pl3l3B5U5H
— Kathryn McCallum (@earthkath) December 4, 2016
As of today, protests intensify as the government authorized the establishment of the Carmichael Mine headquarters in Queensland. According to the recent article published The Daily Telegraph, around 150 protesters assembled at the Tobruk Memorial baths not only to condemn the government's active role in destroying the Great Barrier Reef but also for allegedly desecrating the sacred lands of the local Aborigines.
Curiously, this is not the first instance that capitalist interests have trampled on the sanctity of the people's natural environment. From a thousand miles across the Pacific Ocean, Americans fought against their government for backing the proposal to build an oil pipeline across the Standing Rock Indian reservation in South Dakota. In an article published by Jobs & Hire a month ago, the local police were allegedly resorting to illegal espionage and arrests to suppress the civil protesters.
