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Australian minister backs Adani project

Natural resources minister Matthew Canavan says delays in clearance in India are as bad as Australia

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Jyoti Mukul New Delhi
Australian natural resources minister Matthew Canavan has said the Adani group's integrated coal project in his country has about 70-80% support of the local community. Work on the Carmichael project would start within 2017.

By early 2018, first coal is likely to be produced. The Carmichael coal, railway and port project includes building Australia’s largest thermal coal mine in the north Galilee Basin approximately 160 km north-west of Clermont in Central Queensland. A new 388 km standard gauge rail line to a new terminal at Abbot Point Port near Bowen will also be built. According to the company, the combined