In June 2019, the state of Queensland, Australia, approved the Carmichael coalmine, after a decade-long legal tussle between locals and the powerful Adani group, an Indian conglomerate with an annual revenue of $13 billion.
Victory for Adani’s coalmine spells a loss for two communities 8,000 kilometres apart. The first is in Australia. The second is in Goa, on India’s west coast, where residents fear the impacts of even more coal arriving at the Mormugao port once the Carmichael mine is operational.
