From The Guardian this boondoggle can’t catch a trick:
The federal court has overturned the Abbot government’s approval of Australia’s largest proposed coal project, Adani’s Carmichael mine in north Queensland.
The court has ruled environment minister Greg Hunt ignored his own department’s advice about the mine’s impact on two vulnerable species, the yakka skink and the ornamental snake.
It followed a legal challenge by Mackay Conservation Group, which alleged that Hunt repeated the decisive mistake made in the case of a mine proposal inTasmania’s Tarkine forest in 2013.
