The Morrison government will target India's booming electricity market with Australian coal exports as it looks to buttress the economic fallout from a deteriorating relationship with China.
In a sign the Morrison government intends to pursue a pro-coal agenda despite objections raised by Pacific leaders last week, Senator Canavan has scheduled a lunch with executives from Adani, the mining company that has come to symbolise the environmental challenges and economic opportunities of the industry in Australia.
"If we could lift our thermal coal exports to India to the same market share we currently have with China - to just under 25 per cent of their imports - we could export an additional 37 million tonnes of high energy, low ash thermal coal," Senator Canavan said.
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