{"id":554531,"date":"2023-02-10T09:51:27","date_gmt":"2023-02-10T04:21:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=554531"},"modified":"2023-02-10T10:56:44","modified_gmt":"2023-02-10T05:26:44","slug":"australia-blocks-proposed-coal-mine-to-protect-great-barrier-reef","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/australia-blocks-proposed-coal-mine-to-protect-great-barrier-reef\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia blocks proposed coal mine to protect Great Barrier Reef"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Australia&#8217;s Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek on Thursday blocked a proposed coal mine to protect the Great Barrier Reef.<\/p>\n<p>Plibersek had recently announced she has rejected plans for the Central Queensland Coal Project because of the risks it posed to the iconic reef, freshwater creeks and groundwater, reports Xinhua news agency.<\/p>\n<p>She proposed blocking the site in August 2022 and launched a public consultation process, receiving more than 9,000 submissions &#8212; about 98 per cent of which were in favour of rejecting the project. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I made this decision after a lot of careful consideration because I decided based on the evidence before me that there was an unacceptable risk to the Great Barrier Reef,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australia&#8217;s Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek on Thursday blocked a proposed coal mine to protect the Great Barrier Reef. Plibersek had recently announced she has rejected plans for the Central Queensland Coal Project because of the risks it posed to the iconic reef, freshwater creeks and groundwater, reports Xinhua news agency. She proposed blocking the site in August 2022 and launched a public consultation process, receiving more than 9,000 submissions &#8212; about 98 per cent of which were in favour of rejecting the project. &#8220;I made this decision after a lot of careful consideration because I decided based on the evidence [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,170,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-554531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-coal-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554531","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\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=554531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554531\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=554531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=554531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=554531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}