Australia’s main mineworkers union may soon win effective control of Queensland’s coal fields, the world’s largest single source of coking coal. If this happens, BHP Billiton has threatened to shift a planned Aus$10 billion coal mining investment to Indonesia. Last November, the Australian mega-miner announced it would start work on the US$1.34 billion IndoMet project in Kalimantan “within weeks”, along with its domestic partner, PT Adaro Energy. Annual output of coking coal by IndoMet could reach five million metric tons by 2017.
See http://www.minesandcommunities.org/article.php?a=11536.