2010:

Adani begins the approval process to establish two new mines and a rail line in the Galilee Basin.

Premier Anna Bligh declares it a ‘significant project’ which could generate more than 11,000 jobs.

2014:

May: Queensland’s coordinator-general approves the $16.5 billion mine and rail project subject to 190 conditions. 

July: Mr Hunt approves Adani’s proposal.

2015:

August: Federal Court rules in favour of a legal challenge by Mackay Conservation Group which says then Environment Minister Greg Hunt failed to take into account advice on the threatened reptiles. 

October: The federal government re-approves mine subject to ’36 of the strictest conditions in Australian history’.

2016:

April: Queensland approves mining leases for project.

December: Queensland and federal governments give final approvals to a rail project associated with the mine.

2017:

July: Queensland rules out financial support for the Adani mine amid rumours the company is having trouble raising funds.

July: Experts warn the mine could put the endangered southern black-throated finch on a fast-track to extinction.

August: Abbot Point coal facility fined for releasing sediment-laden water during Cyclone Debbie.

September: Queensland Department of Environment and Heritage Protection finds stormwater releases during Cyclone Debbie didn’t widely contaminate the Caley Valley Wetlands.

October: An Indian former environment minister criticises Australia’s decision to approve Adani’s coal mine saying its environmental track record ‘leaves a lot to be desired’.

December: Premier Palaszczuk vetos a billion-dollar federal government loan to Adani for the construction of a rail line.

2018:

January: Owners of native title over the proposed site head back to court in a bid to halt mine. This is ongoing in June 2019.

April: More than 50 religious leaders write a letter to Adani urging it to abandon its project.

October: UN scientists say Australia has a chance to save 30 per cent of the Great Barrier Reef if coal burning is phased out globally within 22 years.

November: Adani downsizes the project from a 60-million-tonnes a year mine costing $16.5 billion to a 10-to-15 million tonnes a year mine costing about $2 billion.

December: Adani files a court order to bankrupt an indigenous traditional owner who launched numerous court actions against the project. This is ongoing.

2019:

April: Adani’s groundwater plan gets federal approval amid criticism the government rushed the process. 

May: Queensland had rejected Adani’s black-throated finch plan and sought a further review of its groundwater plan.

May: Indecision on the Carmichael mine, and its potential jobs, is flagged as a key reason behind Labor’s federal election defeat.

May: The second last state approval is granted on the miner’s plan to manage the endangered black-throated finch.

June: Adani can construct the proposed mine after Queensland’s environment department signed off on the plan to manage groundwater on and around the Galilee basin mine site.                  

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