After nine years, legal challenges, protests and extensive debate Adani’s Galilee Basin coal mine could soon be on.

May 23, 2019

TIMELINE OF ADANI’S CHARMICHAEL COAL MINE DECISION:

Adani’s plan to build the controversial Carmichael coal mine is just one step away from going full steam ahead with the approval of one of two outstanding environmental management plans.

MAY 2019

* Queensland finally ticks off on Adani’s plan to safeguard the endangered black-throated finch on the central Queensland mine site.

* The federal court hears an appeal against Adani’s indigenous land use agreement, and reserves its decision.

* Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk orders deadlines set on outstanding environmental approval process.

* The mine flagged as a key reason behind Labor’s federal election defeat.

* Queensland rejects Adani’s plan to manage the endangered black-throated finch and seeks a further review of the miner’s groundwater plan.

APRIL

*  Adani’s groundwater plan gets federal approval amid criticism the government rushing the process.

MARCH

* Thousands of students join a global climate rally demanding the mine be stopped.

2018

DECEMBER

* Adani files a court order to bankrupt an indigenous traditional owner who launched numerous court actions against the project.

NOVEMBER

* Adani downsizes the project from $16.5 billion 60-million-tonnes a year mine to a 10-to-15 million tonnes a year mine costing about $2 billion.

OCTOBER

* UN scientists say Australia has a chance to save 30 per cent of the Great Barrier Reef if coal burning is phased out globally within 22 years.

APRIL

* More than 50 religious leaders urge Adani to abandon its project.

JANUARY

* Owners of native title over the proposed site head back to court in a bid to halt mine.

2017

DECEMBER

* Premier Palaszczuk vetos a billion-dollar federal government loan to Adani for the construction of a rail line.

OCTOBER

* An Indian former environment minister criticises Australia’s decision to approve Adani’s coal mine saying its environmental track record “leaves a lot to be desired”.

* Owners of native title over the proposed site lose a court appeal against the granting leases.

JULY

* Queensland rules out financial support for the Adani mine amid rumours the company is having trouble raising funds.

* Experts warn the mine could put the endangered southern black-throated finch on a fast-track to extinction.

MAY

* A factional war breaks out within Queensland Labor over a “royalties holiday” deal for Adani.

2016

DECEMBER

* Queensland and federal governments give final approvals to a rail project associated with the mine.

APRIL

* Queensland approves mining leases for project.

2015

OCTOBER

* The federal government re-approves mine subject to “36 of the strictest conditions in Australian history”.

AUGUST

* Federal Court rules in favour of a legal challenge by Mackay Conservation Group which says Environment Minister Greg Hunt failed to take into account advice on the threatened reptiles.

2014

JULY

* Mr Hunt approves Adani’s proposal.

MAY

* Queensland’s coordinator-general approves the $16.5 billion mine and rail project subject to 190 conditions.

2010

* Adani begins the approval process to establish two new mines and a rail line in the Galilee Basin.

* Premier Anna Bligh declares it a “significant project” which could generate more than 11,000 jobs.