The Liberal National Government must reject the advice of the self-serving Mining Lobby pushing for changes to the Environmental Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act, the Greens say.
\n\u201cThe Environment Minister must stand up for environmental protections, not fall to her mates in the mining industry,\u201d Greens environment spokesperson Senator Sarah Hanson-Young said.
\n\u201cIt\u2019s almost laughable that the Minister for the Environment would even consider the \u2018advice\u2019 of the mining industry in drafting new laws to protect the environment, sadly however this is no laughing matter. Our environment is under constant threat because the mining industry continues to push for more coal, more gas, more oil drilling and now they want nuclear.
\n\u201cThe only thing the Minerals Council seem to want to protect are the profits of the mining industry, at the cost of Australia\u2019s environment and a safe climate.
\n\u201cNuclear energy is an old technology that Australia has outgrown. We are moving toward a renewable energy future. It\u2019s happening, it\u2019s here and we shouldn\u2019t be looking back.
\n\u201cWe need stronger environmental laws that continue the ban on nuclear energy, and protect our natural world from big corporate interests.
\n\u201cAdani is pressing ahead with its plans to open a mammoth coal mine with little regard to critically endangered black-throated finch populations. There are cases for strengthening our environmental laws all around the country, in part to pull the mining industry into line.\u201d
\n\u201cCalls to relax our environmental laws from the mining sector should be ignored by this Government if they are serious about \u2018improving\u2019 environmental protections.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Liberal National Government must reject the advice of the self-serving Mining Lobby pushing for changes to the Environmental Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act, the Greens say. \u201cThe Environment Minister must stand up for environmental protections, not fall to her mates in the mining industry,\u201d Greens environment spokesperson Senator Sarah Hanson-Young said. \u201cIt\u2019s almost laughable … Continue reading “Hands off our environmental laws, Greens tell Mining lobby”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aussie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1304\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}