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Australia blocks coal mine.

 

An Australian court has moved to block an $8.4bn coal mine development in Queensland on human rights grounds in a landmark case highlighting the mounting legal challenges to fossil fuel extraction worldwide.

Fleur Kingham, president of the Land Court of Queensland, said yesterday that «climate change was a key issue» in the decision and that the project would have infringed on the rights of First Nations people in Queensland because of its climate impact.

A growing number of cases in jurisdictions from the Netherlands to the Philippines have been launched to challenge government policies and block fossil fuel extraction on climate grounds.

Swedish activist Greta Thunberg this week joined a class-action lawsuit brought by more than 600 young people that alleges Sweden’s climate policies are insufficient. Youth Verdict obtained the legal challenge against the Galilee Coal project, a First Nations-led group because its climate impact would violate their human rights.

«Wherever the coal is burnt, it will contribute to environmental harm,» Kingham said in her ruling. She wrote that the emissions — projected at 1.58bn tonnes over the mine’s lifetime, equivalent to three years of annual national emissions — would imperil Australia’s commitment to the Paris climate accord.

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  1. Mona26 November 2022 at 09:03

    I totally agree that we should aim to do away with coal as soon as we can but we also must realize that we still need to replace it with something else. We can't just go about stopping anything related to coal without having a valid replacement in place.

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