Whitehaven Coal's underground mine in northern NSW is polluting the atmosphere with more than three times the direct greenhouse gas emissions it forecast it would emit when it received environmental approval in 2015.
Three major insurance groups that provided cover for parts of the Adani coal project in Queensland have said they will not provide future policies to the project.
Skeptical, villagers who live around the Parsa East and Kanta Basan coal mine—and are directly impacted by any pollution from it—have begun actively monitoring the project.
Indian conglomerate Adani — the proponent of Australia's biggest coal mine — will be prosecuted over a spill of contaminated water from the Abbot Point coal terminal in Queensland.
It may have the Turnbull and Palaszczuk governments firmly in its corner, but the Adani super-mine is facing a formidable new opponent: the Christian faith.
