Coal Controversy

India's Adani Group is preparing to ship the first coal cargo from Australia's most controversial mine, after battling a seven-year campaign by climate activists and defying a global push away from fossil fuels.

Billionaire Gautam Adani's coal mine in Australia, a project that's become a global emblem for opposition to fossil fuels, is preparing to begin exports after more than a decade of bitter dispute over its development.

There is a controversy brewing in Assam over environment clearances given for two separate projects. The Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change has given clearance for hydrocarbon drilling to Oil India Limited at seven locations under the Dibru Saikhowa National Park in Assam's Tinsukia district at time when there is already a lot of cr...

The Adani conglomerate coming under increasing pressure over its controversial coal mine in Australia said it won't let protests dissuade it from completing the project. The group, controlled by Indian billionaire Gautam Adani, is responding to an uptick in scrutiny over the Carmichael development, including from high-profile teen activist Greta Th...

The announcement of self-funding comes after environmental groups pressured banks in Australia and overseas not to lend money to the project.

Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has strongly supported energy giant Adani's controversial 16.5 billion dollar coal mine in Queensland, saying the project has gone through extensive environmental permitting and should go ahead.

Financing from the A$5 billion Northern Australian Infrastructure Facility (NAIF) would offer a boost to Adani after some major banks said they would not participate in the controversial coal project.

In a relief to India's energy major Adani, an Australian court on Friday dismissed a Queensland Indigenous group's application challenging the mining leases granted to its controversial 21 billion dollar Carmichael coal mine project, one of the world's largest.

"Australia's precious Great Barrier Reef is already in poor health, and Indian coal company Adani's controversial port project, which will cause irreparable damage, has raised significant concern in our community," Sandra Williams said.

Australia approved on Tuesday a controversial expansion of the Abbot Point coal terminal, which environmentalists fear will damage the Great Barrier Reef but supporters say is needed to protect the sector from decline.

In a fresh setback for Indian mining giant Adani in Australia, one of its key customers Korean major LG said that it will not purchase coal from its controversial 16 billion dollar project while reports emerged that a leading bank may not fund the venture.

Union Minister Sushma Swaraj tweeted this morning that she would reveal in Parliament the name of a senior Congress leader who lobbied with her for a diplomatic passport for a coal scam accused leader.

The documents showed the set-up he feared was not from Adani, but from the Department of State Development under then deputy premier Jeff Seeney, whose department was driving the negotiations with the Indian mining giant.

On Tuesday, when the Lok Sabha passed the controversial land bill, the Congress and some other opposition parties were not present in the House. They had walked out, signalling to the government that they are united in their resolve to not let its key reforms pass the Rajya Sabha test.

A court in Delhi today asked the country's premier investigating agency why it had not questioned former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh about the controversial and allegedly illegal allocation in 2005 of a coal block to a firm owned by billionaire Kumar Mangalam Birla. Dr Singh held direct charge of the Coal Ministry at the time.

India's Adani Group is preparing to ship the first coal cargo from Australia's most controversial mine, after battling a seven-year campaign by climate activists and defying a global push away from fossil fuels.

Billionaire Gautam Adani's coal mine in Australia, a project that's become a global emblem for opposition to fossil fuels, is preparing to begin exports after more than a decade of bitter dispute over its development.

There is a controversy brewing in Assam over environment clearances given for two separate projects. The Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change has given clearance for hydrocarbon drilling to Oil India Limited at seven locations under the Dibru Saikhowa National Park in Assam's Tinsukia district at time when there is already a lot of cr...

The Adani conglomerate coming under increasing pressure over its controversial coal mine in Australia said it won't let protests dissuade it from completing the project. The group, controlled by Indian billionaire Gautam Adani, is responding to an uptick in scrutiny over the Carmichael development, including from high-profile teen activist Greta Th...

The announcement of self-funding comes after environmental groups pressured banks in Australia and overseas not to lend money to the project.

Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has strongly supported energy giant Adani's controversial 16.5 billion dollar coal mine in Queensland, saying the project has gone through extensive environmental permitting and should go ahead.

Financing from the A$5 billion Northern Australian Infrastructure Facility (NAIF) would offer a boost to Adani after some major banks said they would not participate in the controversial coal project.

In a relief to India's energy major Adani, an Australian court on Friday dismissed a Queensland Indigenous group's application challenging the mining leases granted to its controversial 21 billion dollar Carmichael coal mine project, one of the world's largest.

"Australia's precious Great Barrier Reef is already in poor health, and Indian coal company Adani's controversial port project, which will cause irreparable damage, has raised significant concern in our community," Sandra Williams said.

Australia approved on Tuesday a controversial expansion of the Abbot Point coal terminal, which environmentalists fear will damage the Great Barrier Reef but supporters say is needed to protect the sector from decline.

In a fresh setback for Indian mining giant Adani in Australia, one of its key customers Korean major LG said that it will not purchase coal from its controversial 16 billion dollar project while reports emerged that a leading bank may not fund the venture.

Union Minister Sushma Swaraj tweeted this morning that she would reveal in Parliament the name of a senior Congress leader who lobbied with her for a diplomatic passport for a coal scam accused leader.

The documents showed the set-up he feared was not from Adani, but from the Department of State Development under then deputy premier Jeff Seeney, whose department was driving the negotiations with the Indian mining giant.

On Tuesday, when the Lok Sabha passed the controversial land bill, the Congress and some other opposition parties were not present in the House. They had walked out, signalling to the government that they are united in their resolve to not let its key reforms pass the Rajya Sabha test.

A court in Delhi today asked the country's premier investigating agency why it had not questioned former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh about the controversial and allegedly illegal allocation in 2005 of a coal block to a firm owned by billionaire Kumar Mangalam Birla. Dr Singh held direct charge of the Coal Ministry at the time.