{"id":12779,"date":"2017-06-27T06:50:50","date_gmt":"2017-06-26T20:20:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/?p=12779"},"modified":"2017-06-27T06:54:59","modified_gmt":"2017-06-26T20:24:59","slug":"great-barrier-reef-coal-mb0097","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/great-barrier-reef-coal-mb0097\/","title":{"rendered":"56 Billion Reasons To Dump Adani’s Carmichael Coal Mine"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Great Barrier Reef From Space | Image: Public Domain<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n

The Climate Council states a Deloitte report that puts a dollar value on Australia’s Great Barrier Reef is another reason to pull the plug on Adani’s proposed Carmichael coal mine in Queensland’s Galilee Basin.<\/p>\n

One of the natural wonders of the world and comprised of approximately 3,000 individual reefs, the Great Barrier Reef is the largest living structure on Earth. It spans 2,300 kilometres and occupies 348,000 square kilometres; an area as big as the UK, Switzerland and the Netherlands put together.<\/p>\n

As we live in a world where the dollar reigns supreme, Deloitte Access Economics decided to calculate its monetary value. It turns out the Great Barrier Reef is the biggest contributor to our nation’s economy.<\/p>\n

“The Great Barrier Reef has a economic, social and icon asset value of $56 billion. It supports 64,000 jobs and contributes $6.4 billion to the Australian economy,” the firm states in its report<\/a> (PDF) titled “At what price? The economic, social and icon value of the Great Barrier Reef.”<\/p>\n