From fishing villages on the Gujarat coastline to Adanis power plant in Mundra and thecompanys headquarters in Ahmedabad, Lindsay Simpsons personal story tracks how the AdaniGroup managed to woo Australian governments into approving Australias largest coal mine inthe Galilee Basin and port expansion in a zone of great ecological sensitivity.Why would an Australian Prime Minister, a State Premier and a handful of regional mayorsback such a project, risking the future of the Great Barrier Reef and threatening Australias vastprecious source of underground waterthe Great Artesian Basin? And what of the consequencesfor greenhouse gas emissions if other proposed mines in the Galilee Basin go ahead?With other activists, she travels from Adanis Indian headquarters in Gujarat to ParliamentHouse in Canberra to lobby politicians, demand answers and question motivations. She alsodocuments the power of the social movement, Stop Adani, which has captured the publicimagination.
Lindsay Simpson was an investigative journalist with The Sydney Morning Herald from 1983
to 1995. She is the author and co-author of ten books. In 2007, she was awarded the Crime
Writers Association Lifetime Achievement Award. She lives in the Whitsundays close to the
Great Barrier Reef where she writes full time and with her husband operates two sailing boats.
This is an important book for every citizen concerned about dirty coal and climate change, the
globalisation of corruption and the destruction of our democracies, from India to Australia.
It tells the global story of how a handful of billionaires are using politicians to make limitless
money while they destroy the planet, peoples lives, and our common future. Dr Vandana
Shiva, author of Making Peace with the Earth, Recipient of the Sydney Peace Prize and the
Right Livelihood Award
