AAP: The Queensland government has granted three mining leases for Adanis multi-billion dollar Carmichael coalmine, which will be the largest in Australia.
Environmental groups say the mine will fuel global warming and compound threats to the world heritage-listed Great Barrier Reef amid one of its worst coral bleaching events on record.
The premier, Annastacia Palaszczuk, and the mines minister, Anthony Lynham, made the announcement in Mackay on Sunday.
The premier put the value of the project...