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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
Environment
Michael Slezak

What coalmine? Adani's tweet ridiculed for jumping on Earth Day bandwagon

Abbot Point Coal Terminal
The Abbot Point coal terminal is due for huge expansion if Adani’s Carmichael coalmine goes ahead. Photograph: Tom Jefferson/Tom Jefferson / Greenpeace

World Earth Day – it’s a day about protecting the environment. So Australians got a bit hot under their collars when Adani Group tried to get in on the action.

Adani, remember, is trying its darnedest to build one of the world’s biggest coalmines in Queensland and transport the coal to India via the Great Barrier Reef.

“Tomorrow is #WorldEarthDay,” the company tweeted. “Time to reflect and do our bit. What are some of the things you do for the environment?”

A few people on Twitter, especially in Australia, noticed this might be seen as a little hypocritical.

Quite a few chose to point out they were doing their bit for the environment by not destroying the reef – either by digging up millions of tonnes of coal to be burned or by shipping it straight through the reef.

According to researchers, the mine is also going to destroy a vast piece of central Queensland, the prime habitat for the endangered black-throated finch. Digging up the land itself got a few others upset.

And plenty of others just enjoyed the irony of it all.

In their defence, the tweet was sent by the account of the Adani Group, which does a lot more than just coalmining. In fact, they also produce a lot of solar and are currently developing India’s biggest solar power utility.

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