Abbot Point port expansion EIS starts

The Queensland government this week announced that environmental impact study (EIS) for the proposed 20-million-tonne-a-year expansion of the Abbot Point coal export facilities would start. Abbot Point currently has a capacity of 50-million tonnes a year, and the proposed expansion would increase capacity by 70-million tonnes a year to cater for additional coal from the Galilee basin, including Adani Mining’s proposed Carmichael mine.