Minerals Council of Australia welcomes Adani Carmichael decision
Published by Harleigh Hobbs,
Editor
World Coal,
The Minerals Council of Australia (MCA) has welcomed the recent announcement by Adani that the Carmichael coal mine and rail projects have received Final Investment Decision approval.
The decision follows a rigorous approval process that has stretched over a six year period and also against the backdrop of many activist campaign.
In a news release from the MCA, it noted that “Those activists need to reflect on how they sought to stop jobs for regional Queensland families and other Australians and also how they wanted to deny economic and social advancement of millions of Indian people seeking the very modest benefit of accessible electricity.”
The Carmichael project is a major investment project that will deliver many benefits to Queensland, according to the council. It indicated that by using Australia’s high-quality coal, the project will help increase access to a secure supply of electricity in India, where there are around 300 million people without electricity.
According to the International Energy Agency (IEA), coal accounted for 75% of electricity generation in India in 2014 and electricity output is expected to more than double by 2040. Meanwhile over the same period coal fired power capacity is expected to increase by 275 GW from 2016 to 2040.
India’s imports of coal are forecast to increase from 181 Mtce in 2014 to 341 Mtce in 2040.
The IEA has previously observed that miners in India have to extract around 1.5 t of coal to get the same amount of energy as that contained in one t of Australian coal.
The majority of coal mined will go directly to Adani-owned coal fired generation and hence establishes a new market for Australian coal.
The 2016 IEA World Economic Outlook (WEO) states that Australian coal exports are forecast to increase from 347 million tonnes of coal equivalent (Mtce) to 410 Mtce by 2040 with Australia’s share of international trade growing from 32% to 37%.
Read the article online at: https://www.worldcoal.com/mining/07062017/minerals-council-of-australia-welcomes-adani-carmichael-decision/
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