page_title: Coal
section_title: Protests against coal
hierarchical_section_title: Coal / Protests against coal
caption_attribution_description: English: The Indian Finance Minister, Arun Jaitley is in Australia trying to wrangle money for infrastructure projects including the the Adani Carmichael mine in the Galilee Basin. It was reported in Indian media he was meeting with Australian Finance Minister Matthias Cormann and the $117 billion sovereign wealth Future Fund CEO Peter Costello in regard to sourcing funding for the mine. We know that millions of Australians are opposed to opening the Galilee Basin and coal ports on the Great Barrier Reef. This week we have seen the worst ever bleaching event on the Great Barrier Reef. We know that we can’t have coal and coral, we have to choose. See the ABC 7.30 Report on the extreme bleaching event caused by climate change. The Snap protest was organised by AYCC outside a public lecture by Finance Minister Arun Jaitley at Melbourne University.
context_page_description: Coal is a hard rock which can be burned as a solid fossil fuel. It is mostly carbon but also contains hydrogen, sulphur, oxygen and nitrogen. It is a sedimentary rock formed from peat, by the pressure of rocks laid down later on top.
  Peat, and therefore coal, is formed from the remains of plants which lived millions of years ago in tropical wetlands, such as those of the late Carboniferous period. Also wood heated in an airless space can make charcoal, which is like coal.
  Coal can be burned for energy or heat. About two-thirds of the coal mined today is burned in power stations to make electricity. Like oil, when coal is burned its carbon joins with oxygen in the air and makes a lot of carbon dioxide, which causes climate change. Because of that and other air pollution from coal most countries are turning to new sources of energy, such as solar power. But new coal power plants are still being built in some parts of the world, such as China.
  Coal can be roasted to produce coke. Coke can be used in smelting to reduce metals from their ores.
context_section_description: Opposition to coal pollution was one of the main reasons the modern environmental movement started in the 19th century.
caption: Protesting damage to the Great Barrier Reef caused by climate change in Australia
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