Adani Group to start coal export from Australian mine this week

Coal is almost entirely destined for India, where fossil fuel is used to generate nearly 70 per cent of the electricity.

Adani Group will begin exporting high quality, low sulphur coal from its Carmichael mine in Australia as early as this week, after battling a seven-year campaign by climate activists and defying a global push away from fossil fuels.

With this, the group taps a new multi-decade source to meet energy needs. “The first shipment of high-quality coal from the Carmichael mine is being assembled at the North Queensland Export Terminal in Bowen ready for export as planned,” Bravus Mining & Resources — Adani Group's Australian mining company — said in a statement.

The exports, a source said, may start as early as