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Australia cancels plan to dump dredge in Great Barrier Reef
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Mongabay.com
Publication Date
2014-09-04
A consortium of companies—North Queensland Bulk Ports, GVK Hancock and Adani Group—have announced they are giving up on a hugely-controversial plan to dump five million tonnes of dredged sediment in the Great Barrier Reef. The plans ran into considerable opposition from environment, conservation, and tourism groups who feared harm to the world's largest coral reef system, which is already suffering from global warming, ocean acidification, pollution, and overfishing.
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