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ENDANGERED

VULNERABLE

NEAR THREATENED

PROTECTED
60 SPECIES AT RISK
FROM CARMICHAEL MINE
7 plant species
Blue
Devil
2
Hydrocotyle
dipleur
2
Salt
Pipewort
2
Waxy
cabbage
palm
Spring
Dropseed
2
Sporobolus
partimpatens
2
Myriophyllum
artesium
2
9 reptile species
Green Turtle Hawksbill Turtle
Flatback Turtle Loggerhead Turtle
Striped-tailed Delma
1
Ornamental snake
Brigalow scaly foot
1
Saltwater crocodile
1
Yakka Skink
1
Koala
Coastal
sheath-tailed bat
1
Dugong
Indo-pacic
humpback dolphin
Humback
whale
7 mammal species
Snubn dolphin Little pied bat
1 Likely to occur but not recorded during project surveys; 2 Indirect impacts, eg. due to loss of water ows in nearby rivers and springs;
Source: Compiled from Carmichael Mine & Rail EIS and SEIS, and Terminal Zero EIS documents. Species are either: Nationally listed (EPBC Act) or Queensland listed (NC Act).
37 bird
species
Black-
necked
stork
Eastern
Osprey
Black-tailed godwit
1
Australian Painted Snipe
Fork-tailed swift
1
Caspian tern
1
Black throated nch (southern)
Glossy ibis
1
Red-necked Stint
Cattle egret
1
Beach stone curlew
Lathams snipe
1
Rufous fantail
Common greenshank
1
Black-
chinned honey-eater
1
Lewins Rail
Satin ycatcher
Cotton
pygmy goose
Marsh sandpiper
1
Sooty Oystercatcher
Common sandpiper
1
Glossy black-cockatoo
1
Curlew sandpiper
1
Little Tern
Pacic golden plover
Sharp tailed sand piper
Eastern Curlew
Square-tailed kite
1
Rainbow bee-eater
Whimbrel White-bellied sea-eagle
1
Eastern great egret
Squatter pigeon
(southern)
Rajah Shelduck
White-
throated needletail
1
White-winged
black tern
Crested Tern
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HOW HUGE
IS CARMICHAEL MINE?
1 Area includes Sydney Harbour, North Harbour and Middle Harbour; Source: NSW Maritime, www.maritime.nsw.gov.au/docs/publications/harbour_stats.pdf
2 Adani (2013) Volume 2 - Mine Studies, Carmichael Coal Mine and Rail Project SEIS, 22 October 2013
Sydney
Harbour
Sydney
Harbour
Sydney
Harbour
Sydney
Harbour
Sydney
Harbour
Sydney
Harbour
Sydney
Harbour
or 28,000ha
2
Sydney Harbour
1
area of 7x
6x open cut pit mines 5x underground mines
open
cut
mine
open
cut
mine
open
cut
mine
open
cut
mine
open
cut
mine
open
cut
mine
under-
ground
mine
under-
ground
mine
under-
ground
mine
under-
ground
mine
under-
ground
mine
LARGEST COAL MINE
IN AUSTRALIA
PROPOSED
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WATER USAGE
FROM CARMICHAEL MINE
2 hrs
(2.7 million litres)
=
Enough water
to ll an Olympic
swimming pool
1 day
(36.8 million litres)
1 year
(12 billion litres)
1
=
=
Enough water
for one person
to have a shower
continuously,
for 10 years
2
1 Adani (2013) Report for Water Balance, Appendix K2, Carmichael Coal Mine and Rail Project SEIS, 22 October 2013; 2 Based on a three star rated water efcient showerhead using 6L per minute;
Source: www.waterrating.gov.au/consumers/water-efciency; 3 Based on 2014 population drinking 2L per day. Source: www.qgso.qld.gov.au/products/briefs/pop-growth-qld/qld-pop-counter.php
Enough drinking
water for every
Queenslander
for 3 years
3
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Abbot Point
2012
174 vessels
Carmichael
mine
600 vessels
EXTRA
coal ships
through the
Great Barrier
Reef each year
1
600
3 million m
3

DREDGED AND DUMPED
inside the Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area
1 Based on a ship capacity of 100,000 DWT
REEF IMPACTS
FROM CARMICHAEL MINE
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EMISSIONS
FROM BURNING CARMICHAELS COAL
Australias passenger
car emissions
1
New Zealands
fossil fuel
emissions
2
3x
4x
1 Australias total greenhouse gas emissions, excluding the land use, land use change and forestry (LULUCF) sector, were estimated to be 552.3 million
tonnes (Mt) of carbon dioxide equivalent (CO2-e) in 2011. Passenger cars account for 41.9 Mt CO2-e; Source: National Inventory Report 2011;
2 OECD/IEA 2013. CO
2
Emissions From Fuel Combustion 2013 edition.
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Moranbah
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1

Carmichael
coal mine
Abbot
Point
G R E A T
B A R R I E R
R E E F
X
2

New coal rail line
(370km)
Q U E E N S L A N D
6

Dumping
3

Coal stockpiles
5

Dredging
7

Shipping
8

Export coal
(60 million
tonnes)
4

Coal export terminal
MINE TO REEF

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