Adani coal mine would wipe out Direct Action gains within a year, estimates show

By Peter Hannam
Updated October 19 2016 - 12:08am, first published October 18 2016 - 11:45pm
Emissions are on the increase even with the Direct Action plan.
Emissions are on the increase even with the Direct Action plan.

Carbon cuts made by the federal government's Direct Action climate change plan by 2020 would be wiped out by pollution from a single coal mine in just over a year, new data revealed at a Senate estimates hearing shows.

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