If this isn't massive what the hell is?
By comparison the solar farm is tiny but a step in the right direction.
"The mine is planned to contain six open-cut pits and five underground mines.[2] The surface disturbance area is 27,892 hectares (68,923 acres).[16] The mine site covers an area of 44,700 hectares (110,456 acres), around 447 square kilometres (173 sq mi), and is about 50 kilometres (31 mi) long.[25]
Operations at the mine are expected to consume 12 billion litres of water each year.[18] It is required to return only 6% of this water in the first five years.[26] The mine will take a total of 297 billion litres of water from underground aquifers.[27]
The Carmichael River runs through the middle of the mine site. Bridges and flood levees must be built before the Southern mines are constructed.[28]
In the Queensland Land and Environment Court, Adani said it expects the mine to produce 2.3 billion tonnes of coal over 60 years.[5] This implies average production of around 40 million tonnes a year. According to the current Environmental Impact Statement, the Carmichael mine would produce 60 million tonnes of coal per year (at peak capacity).[16]"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carmichael_coal_mine#Project_size_and_operations
