Visualizing the EU’s Critical Minerals Gap by 2030
This graphic underscores the scale of the challenge the bloc faces in strengthening its critical mineral supply by 2030.
Adani will be hiring for coal exploration, coal mining, rail construction and operations, infrastructure construction, and port expansion and operations.
The developer of Australia’s US$15bn Carmichael coal mine, one of the world’s largest fossil fuel projects, said it will start hiring the over 5,000 people it needs for the construction phase beginning next year.
With the announcement, Adani Group —an Indian conglomerate with interests spanning mining, energy and logistics— has doubled the estimates made when the coal mine and rail project got its final approval.
Map from the Queensland’s Department of State Development, Infrastructure and Planning web site.
Designed to eventually produce 60 million tonnes of thermal coal a year, the project consists of six open-cut pits and up to five underground mines, to supply coal-hungry Indian power plants with enough of the fossil fuel to generate electricity for up to 100 million people.
According to Ferret Group Media, Adani is accepting resume submissions through its website. It will be hiring for coal exploration, coal mining, rail construction and operations, infrastructure construction, and port expansion and operations.
The port Adani will use, Abbot Point, has been the centre of heated debate, as conservationists opposed a proposed expansion on the ground the project would dredge up 3 million cubic metres of sand and then dump it near the Great Barrier Reef.
Opposition to the port expansion and the proposed Galilee basin coal mines has grown in recent weeks. First UNESCO warned it might place the Great Barrier Reef on its endangered list as a result of the port expansion. And last week US ice cream company Ben & Jerry’s launched a Save the Reef campaign that prompted authorities to call a boycott from Australian consumers, as they claim it is “propaganda” that has damaged the reputation of the reef, jeopardizing jobs and tourism dollars.
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Miners wife
How do I apply for one of the 5000 jobs available???????????
moralist1
I think a boycott of Ben & Jerry’s ice cream is a better option. Billions of people need energy to live a decent life like we in the West do and we want to deny them that opportunity ? Until solar power and wind power are as economical as fossil fuels on a unit of energy basis let’s use the most stringent measures to keep the environment clean as possible and let the people “have light”.
immo
count in the damaged caused by burning fossil fuels, especially coal and solar is cheaper for a couple of years but when you do not count the value of hundreds of million people shorter life and associated healthcare expenditure, yea it is cheaper.
John G
I am so sick and tired of all this baseless bashing of the coal based energy by some city slickers who have no idea what they are talking about , who have never produced anything of any value and who have been brainwashed by an education system which fills them with propaganda and slogans instead of facts and science. I am an engineer over 50 years old and this talk about solar and wind energy was exactly the same 35 years ago when I was in high school. The same big buzz about climate change was going on, only it was the ice age coming and not the warming – at that time it was definitely 100% ice coming due to pollution which was covering the sky and masking the sun. New York was supposed to be under ice by 1990! The earth oceans were supposed to be dead by 1980 also, due to chemicals and garbage! All this rubish was being stated with the same dumb confidence by the same kind of “scientists” and activists who lived (and live) a sweet life based on lies and empty talking – on the backs of the quiet but hard working people – then and now.
When you try to impress some brainless chick at the pub by exposing your environmental conviction is one thing, but when the same ignorants who have no idea try to condemn the billions of people living in developing countries to a life of misery like our own ancestors lived before 1700, is a totally different thing. We already pay through our noses the supposed pollution produced by coal and oil: our energy should cost us 6c/kwh and not 25c/kwh, and this is one reason all our manufacturing has moved to Asia, where our coal and gas is used to fabricate everything that we use today. How long do you think the current kind of trade will go on : We sell our coal and oil cheap to China and other “developing” countries (because we do not want to burn them and produce goods here) and then China lends us monies (which we will never be able to pay back) in order to be able to buy the goods produced by them with our coal and oil! Meantime we talk about solar power, seriously propose to return to life in caves in order to prevent the imaginary global warming and the only thing we build is Facebook!
Trev
If they are so worried about waste backload the trains with the waste . Would solve issues on area to dump the sand !! .