Queensland government rebukes Adani over endangered finch

Indian miner playing politics instead of participating in scientific process, says deputy premier Jackie Trad

The Adani mining group has chosen to “run a political campaign” rather than engage with the Queensland government about its plans to protect the endangered black-throated finch, the state’s deputy premier has said.

On Friday, Adani launched a pre-emptive attack on the findings of an independent review of its conservation plans to protect the finch at the Carmichael mine site.

The company said a first draft of the report “reads like an anti-coal, anti-mining, anti-Adani lobbying brochure”, and contained unspecified errors. In a statement, it repeated its calls for the Queensland government to simply finalise its management plan, about which conservationists and ecologists have serious concerns.

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