While the year of Dear Data is over, its impact, says Lupi, is lasting.
Only one of the mines – the Alpha joint venture project backed by Gina Rinehart's Hancock Coal – has been given full state and federal government approval, although it faces a legal challenge over its impact on groundwater.
Despite Rosenberg being outnumbered by shills from "Astroturf" organizations, the commission voted to investigate the deal, signaling that concerns over its impact are serious enough not to simply rubber-stamp it.
Its proposals are being treated warily by the conservationists who are harrying the conventional offshore salmon farming industry over its impact on the marine environment.
The Alpha project, which plans to remove 32m tonnes of coal a year, has been challenged in court by environmentalists and farmers, who are concerned over its impact on groundwater.
The Tower Hamlets Clinical Commissioning Group wrote to David Cameron, urging him to ditch the legislation and echoing the concerns over its impact on services expressed by professional bodies including the British Medical Association and the Royal College of GPs.
After years of seeing the old plaza steadily deteriorate and worrying over its impact on the town's aesthetics, local officials in 2000 declared the plaza site an area in need of redevelopment.
In the final quarter of last year, growth slowed to a six-year low as trade and consumer spending weakened, deepening a downturn that has fueled anxiety abroad over its impact on an uncertain global outlook.
PAGE 14 NEW YORK REPORT PLANS FOR A FESTIVAL, Concern Over Its Impact The people of Madison Square Garden Entertainment fell in love with a 900-acre dairy farm in Springfield, N.Y., while looking for a site on which to hold what they hope to make "an annual world-class, three-day music festival".
The figures are a far cry from the 10,000 jobs and $22bn Adani has used in seeking government approval for the mine and a public relations campaign aimed at negating public opposition over its impact on the Great Barrier Reef through shipping and emissions.
