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MrWrock t1_j7qd9jy wrote

Reply to comment by Gijinkakun in Application for a coal mine near the Great Barrier Reef has been rejected due to environmental concerns by monovial

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

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Aporkalypse_Sow t1_j7r1kgh wrote

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.

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