AdaniWatch is a non-profit project established by the Bob Brown Foundation to shine a light on the Adani Group’s misdeeds across the planet. AdaniWatch will share the latest news and analysis from the world’s media on Adani’s mining and other exploitative activities.
In Australia, Adani is best known as the company behind the proposed Carmichael coal mine in Queensland. However, the Adani Group is a conglomeration of companies engaged in a vast array of businesses, including coal-fired power stations, ports, palm oil, airports, defence industries, solar power, real estate and gas. The group’s founder and chairman, Gautam Adani, is India’s second-richest man and a close associate of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
The Adani Group is active in several countries but particularly in India, where accusations of corruption and environmental destruction have dogged its rise to power. In eastern India, Adani intends to strip mine ancestral lands belonging to the Gond people. Large tracts of biodiverse forest, including elephant habitat, are in the firing line. Around the coastline of India, Adani’s plans to massively expand its ports are generating outcry from fishing villages and conservationists. In the country’s north-east, Adani is building a thermal power station designed to burn coal from Queensland and sell expensive power to neighbouring Bangladesh. Investigations, court actions and allegations of impropriety have accompanied Adani’s progress in most of these business schemes.
Through its joint venture with Wilmar, Adani is a major refiner and trader in palm oil, an industry responsible for devastating huge areas of rainforest in South East Asia. The Adani Group is also developing a major port in Myanmar, leasing land from a corporation owned by that country’s infamously brutal military.
AdaniWatch will use global connections to uncover the facts about Adani’s international and Australian activities. A critical piece of this work is to scrutinise Adani’s contrived and fragile business plan for transporting Australian coal over 10,000 km to a power station located in one of the most coal-rich parts of India.
We welcome factual information from sources all over the world. Please send hot tips to [email protected].
India Coal: Massive new Adani coal projects get government green light in India
Coal India Indigenous People: Adani’s mine, trucks and powerplant blanket farms, forests, marketplaces and people in filthy coal dust
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India
‘Temporary’ reprieve for villages, forests and tiger habitat as Adani suspends two coal projects
Massive new Adani coal projects get government green light in India
Adani’s mine, trucks and powerplant blanket farms, forests, marketplaces and people in filthy coal dust
South-east Asia
Adani high up on Oxfam list of world’s carbon-emitting billionaires
Adani to scrap its massive port development in Myanmar
Four new coal blocks feed Adani’s ‘deadly addiction’ to coal
Palm Oil
Supreme Court upholds order to dismantle illegal tanks in coastal zone
Will Adani benefit from big palm-oil push by Modi?
Adani’s palm-oil IPO a potential threat to water, farmers, tribal lands and wildlife
Indigenous People
‘Temporary’ reprieve for villages, forests and tiger habitat as Adani suspends two coal projects
Adani’s mine, trucks and powerplant blanket farms, forests, marketplaces and people in filthy coal dust
Desperate families displaced by Adani’s Suliyari coal mine struggle to get lawful compensation
Scandals
Is the Indian Government undermining its own agency’s pursuit of alleged over-invoicing by the Adani Group?
The Myanmar coup leader visiting Adani Ports in 2019
Calls for sanctions against Myanmar coup leader who visited Adani Ports in 2019
Carmichael Mine
Adani high up on Oxfam list of world’s carbon-emitting billionaires
Adani’s growing stranglehold on the region of Godda
State government inaction on pledge to reconsider Adani’s Godda coal-power plant