Mining giant Glencore has defended its plans to dig a $1.5bn coalmine in Queensland after telling the federal government more than a dozen threatened species could be on the site.
Environmentalists said the Valeria mine would destroy habitat for threatened species and threaten farmland, and put a question mark over the company’s climate goals.
But Glencore said it was yet to decide if it would commit financially to the project, which would have to fit within its commitment to reach net zero
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