Another sneaky pre-long weekend decision from Environment Minister @tanya_plibersek.
In time she’s allowing bulldozers to start ripping up endangered finch habitat again.
Traditional Owners pleaded for the destruction to be stopped. 😥👇🏽 https://t.co/FH2iABWpLe
"It’s as if the human race has received a terminal medical diagnosis and knows there is a cure, but has consciously decided not to save itself" https://t.co/sb3qtoXd1v
What we are doing is not enough. We have the solutions. Stop the delays and implement them. #ActOnClimate
Massive expansion of oil and gas production threatens to bust Paris Agreement goals and completely undermine efforts to limit warming to 1.5°C.
The Australian government is making decisions that support development of new, very carbon intensive gas fields https://t.co/AU1dZDSlqo
Not good enough @AlboMP where is the new environmental laws that could have stopped these companies. There is a climate crisis and it is happening now………and yet.
Shocking that, with the climate crisis upon us, the federal govt would grant a major approval for one of the world’s largest new fossil gas projects. 😠#auspol
https://t.co/q5yhE2yfHP
Here in Perth we have struggled through the hottest year on record and the driest 6 months in 148 years, This IS Climate change caused by Gas companies. We need to stop them, not enable them. This is not good enough @AlboMP, Australians demand action to reduce emissions now!
Yesterday the govt gagged debate to try to ram through changes that could weaken environmental laws & consultation with First Nations people - whilst expanding the gas industry.
This is not good enough.
We will continue to fight this today in the House.
Australian government joins forces with opposition to ram an offshore gas development bill that allows the resources Minister to determine environmental conditions through the lower house of Parliament.
This is of, for and by the gas industry.
https://t.co/L6Jnr6fxkT
Yesterday the govt gagged debate to try to ram through changes that could weaken environmental laws & consultation with First Nations people - whilst expanding the gas industry.
This is not good enough.
We will continue to fight this today in the House.
Australia is the sunniest and one of the windiest continents in the world, with enough clean energy potential to power ourselves hundreds of times over.
Investing in cleaner, cheaper energy just makes sense ☀️
https://t.co/ntfQ4BAXgI
Plenty of greenwashing from the Minister here👇🏼Net zero & a safe climate under Paris agreement is impossible with more and more gas projects approved by this Minister‼️Majority of our gas is being exported at great profit to gas companies, with little to domestic market. #auspol
The burning of fossil fuels is worsening extreme weather and threatening communities. WA residents felt this over the summer as they were swung between scorching heat and storms.
WA, and Australia at large, has got to cut climate pollution fast.
https://t.co/MnVCGP10Ty
“Australia ranks #2 in the world for biodiversity loss, leads the world in mammal extinctions and has been named as the only developed nation on a global deforestation hotspot list.”
Our federal environment laws are failing us & must be overhauled.
https://t.co/kJxDN7WdR9
We need to urgently cut climate pollution, but @AusConservation's latest report finds lifetime pollution from Woodside's Burrup Hub gas project would nullify savings from all existing household rooftop solar systems in Australia for more than 344 years 🤯
https://t.co/vO7CFcCeet
“It’s destruction. Of nature, of our cultural heritage. Everything. It’s just one big mess.”
https://t.co/ThfEs9fl3q
#savetoondah#auspol@tanya_plibersek
Australia uses more gas running LNG export terminals than we do for gas power stations.
There is no shortage of gas, we're just exporting more than 80% of it. #auspol
Worried about the cost of living?
The damage fossil fuels are doing to our climate could increase your food costs by around 30% .. IN THE NEXT 3 YEARS!
Just another way fossil fuels are wrecking every aspect of your life.
https://t.co/3UMnFe8tnQ
The Greens & crossbench are ready with a bill to put an end to dirty donations and bring integrity back to the parliament.
The government keeps hinting at electoral reform, but so far signs point to a two-party stitch up with the Liberals.
That’s not reform, that’s a rort.