{"id":11017,"date":"2017-06-27T06:46:00","date_gmt":"2017-06-27T05:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/portstrategy.nfdtesting.uk\/greenport\/2017\/06\/27\/another-win-for-adanis-abbot-point-expansion\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T15:04:21","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T14:04:21","slug":"another-win-for-adanis-abbot-point-expansion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/news\/oceania\/another-win-for-adanis-abbot-point-expansion\/","title":{"rendered":"Another win for Adani\u2019s Abbot Point expansion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Whitsunday Residents Against Dumping (WRAD) argued unsuccessfully that the approval for the project given by the Department of Environment and Heritage Protection was not legally granted.<\/p>\n<p>Environmental groups oppose the project on the grounds coal is a contributory factor in global warming. They also fear damage caused by large bulk carriers transiting the Great Barrier Reef and also from the effects of dumping dredge spoil.<\/p>\n<p>The environmental groups have indicated they will study the Supreme Court judgement in detail before deciding on any further action.<\/p>\n<p>Adani\u2019s plan is to export Queensland coal from the Carmichael Mine via the Abbot Point terminal to feed the Indian energy industry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Queensland Supreme Court has rejected moves to put a stop to the controversial expansion of the Abbot Point coal terminal by the Adani company.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":11018,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-11017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oceania"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11017"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11017\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11019,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11017\/revisions\/11019"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11017"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=11017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}