{"id":276891,"date":"2019-05-31T06:21:47","date_gmt":"2019-05-31T06:21:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=276891"},"modified":"2019-05-31T06:21:47","modified_gmt":"2019-05-31T06:21:47","slug":"adani-wins-queensland-govts-approval-to-protect-endangered-finch-bird-at-coal-mine-site-in-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/adani-wins-queensland-govts-approval-to-protect-endangered-finch-bird-at-coal-mine-site-in-australia\/","title":{"rendered":"Adani wins Queensland govt\u2019s approval to protect endangered finch bird at coal mine site in Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Indian energy giant Adani won a key approval from the Queensland state government of Australia on Friday to protect the endangered black-throated finch bird population as part of its crucial environmental plan at the site of its proposed billion dollar mine project. The victory for the Adani Group\u2019s long-delayed mega coal mine project came days after a surprise election win of Australia\u2019s pro-coal ruling coalition led by Prime Minister Scott Morrison.<\/p>\n<p>The group\u2019s country head \u2014 Adani Australia Chief Executive Officer Lucas Dow \u2014 last week said that the defeat of the opposition Labor Party in Queensland, where the project is based, is a clear message to get the project done. Labor Party leader Bill Shorten, who took a firm stand against coal and mining, resigned as his party fared poorly in Queensland, especially in mining communities in the north of the state. The black-throated finch management plan and a groundwater plan were the two persisting hurdles before the Indian energy giant could begin work on the largest coal mine project in the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indian energy giant Adani won a key approval from the Queensland state government of Australia on Friday to protect the endangered black-throated finch bird population as part of its crucial environmental plan at the site of its proposed billion dollar mine project. The victory for the Adani Group\u2019s long-delayed mega coal mine project came days after a surprise election win of Australia\u2019s pro-coal ruling coalition led by Prime Minister Scott Morrison. The group\u2019s country head \u2014 Adani Australia Chief Executive Officer Lucas Dow \u2014 last week said that the defeat of the opposition Labor Party in Queensland, where the project [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[198,130,138],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-276891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coal-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276891","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=276891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276891\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}