It had nothing to do with ensuring the survival of the yakka skink and the ornamental snake; they inhabit much of Queensland. And it had even less to do with Green celebrations about blocking a ‘climate disaster and a Reef destroyer’. The Federal Court decision to set aside, on a technicality, Greg Hunt’s year-old federal approval of the massive $16 billion Carmichael Coal development in the Galilee basin was really all about the environment movement’s successful campaign of legal sabotage of Australian mining projects.