Bob Brown (Tasmania, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

My question without notice is to the minister representing the minister for the environment. When is it expected that the government will approve or disapprove of the Wandoan coalmine project in the Surat Basin in the north of the Darling Downs in Queensland? Is this the world’s largest open-cut coalmine? Is it true that in terms of carbon it will produce when burnt, wherever in the world, the equivalent of 10 per cent of Australia’s current greenhouse emissions from this one mining source?