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The company aims to build a plant at Mundra in the western Gujarat state which will convert 2 million tonnes of coal a year to PVC at a cost of US$4 billion. Adani wants to bring the project on stream within four years. Feedstock coal of about 3.1 million tonnes a year for the project will be mainly sourced from Australia and Russia. Indian critics argue that converting coal to plastic will require a high energy processing system that will also have a high carbon footprint. They say it would generate three times more carbon emissions than is generated from converting oil to plastics. They have slammed the proposal as an attempt to revive thermal coal when the world is shifting to green energy sources. ....
The national Independent Expert Scientific Committee on Coal Seam Gas and Large Coal Mining Development (IESC) has provided advice three times to the Queensland government on the proposal. In December, the latest report from IESC said it had “extreme concern that the predicted impacts are not readily mitigated, especially the discharge of mine-affected water into Broad Sound and the [Great Barrier Reef world heritage area]”. The report added: “The IESC cannot envisage any feasible mitigation measures, including offsets, that could safeguard these irreplaceable and internationally significant ecological assets and their associated water resources.” Key problems with the mine, the IESC said, included “significant and irreversible damage to internationally valued estuarine and near-shore ecosystems subjected to mine-affected water” as well as risks to creeks, pools, and the direct loss of 8km of waterways. ....