BOOM Goes the Reef

Boom goes the reef Number of coal Number of coal ships by 2020: ships in 2011: 1,722 10,150 How Australia's coal Wongai Project The wild expanses of Cape York are under threat with developers keen to begin coal mining in this pristine area. (more than one per hour all year) Abbot Point Abbot Point is set to eclipse all other ports to become the world's export boom is driving Proposed 10 vessels Proposed 4079 vossols reckless industrialisation O PORT: Cape York CORAL largest coal export terminal. The result? Over 20 ships per day passing the Whitsunday Islands. Lizand of the Great Barrier Reef Proposed 1.5 million tonnes Island SEA World Heritage Area. Cooktown m Laura Basin Green Island Cairns Hay Point Hay Point is already one of the world's biggest coal export ports. expansions will more than double capacity 2011 190 vossols REEF Dunk Iskanid Hinchinbrook MARINE from the area. Abbot Point Capacity for coal exports by 2020: 944 2011 892 vessels Proposed 3625 vessels PARK million O PORT: Abbot Point Bowen Proposed 385 million 2011 SOUTH 15 million Whitsunday Astands Shen Neng 1 Grounded for nine days, in 2010 the Shen Neng 1 destroyed around 290,000 m? of reef. Since 1985, an average of two major shipping incidents have occurred every year. tonnes PACIFIC tonnes OCEAN That's enough to fill a coal train and wrap it 4% times around the world. Mackay OPORT: Hay Point Coal throughput in 2011: Galilee 156 Proposed 340 million 2011 88 tmillion fonnes million Basin tonnes tonnos Great Keppel Island Bowen Wilson Island Herron skand Galilee Basin Basin • Rockhampton Gladstone Australla is on the verge of an unprecedented coal boom. The epicentre of this expansion is the yet to be developed Galilee Basin in Central Queensland. Owned by a handful of mining magnates such as Clive Palmer and foreign conglomerates such as GVK and Adani, Galilee is the proposed site for a serles of mega mines that will cause Australia's coal exports to more than double within a decade. The creation of mega mines in Central Queensland, the accompanying export infrastructure and increases in shipping traffic, as well as the burning of the coal they produce, place an incredible burden on Australia's Great Barrier Reef. O PORT: Gladstone As well as LNG terminals three new coal ports are planned for the Gladstone area, almost tripling capacity and destroying dolphin and dugong habitat in the process. - Lady ENiot island Hay Point Proposed 2011 219 million 53 million tonnes 2011 640 vessels Proposed 2445 vossols tonnes Proposed and approved dredged material Queensland removed from the Great Barrier O Brisbane Reef would fill 100 200 Kilometres 67 MCGS Gladstone KEY 50 vessels = or 113,184,000 m? 1 million tonnes of coal = (Melbourne Cricket Ground) BARRIER