Labor welcomes the Morrison-Joyce Government\u2019s belated intension to reject the proposed extension of Advent Energy\u2019s Petroleum Exploration Permit 11 (PEP-11).
\nThis is a decision that is more than 300 days overdue and could have been made quickly in February with a stroke of a pen by Scott Morrison\u2019s Minister for Resources, Keith Pitt who had the final decision on the future of the licence.
\nExtending PEP-11 has never made sense from an economic, environmental, or energy perspective.
\nIt would have put at risk thousands of local jobs in tourism, hospitality, and recreational and commercial fishing.
\nLet\u2019s be clear: the Morrison-Joyce Government has left our community in limbo and ignored our wishes for nearly 12 months despite the overwhelming opposition to PEP-11.
\nScott Morrison doesn\u2019t care about our community, otherwise he would not have inflicted this uncertainty on us for so long.
\nThis is a Prime Minister whose priorities are his Liberal mates and making announcements that suit his short-term political prospects.
\nHe has surrendered to the massive campaign ran by the community and Labor to stop this awful project.
\nActions speak louder than words.
\nMr Morrison has been saying he doesn\u2019t approve the PEP-11 extension since March, so Labor looks forward to the official confirmation that it has been rejected once and for all.
\nThis is a huge win for our community, and they deserve to be congratulated and recognised for their advocacy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Labor welcomes the Morrison-Joyce Government\u2019s belated intension to reject the proposed extension of Advent Energy\u2019s Petroleum Exploration Permit 11 (PEP-11). This is a decision that is more than 300 days overdue and could have been made quickly in February with a stroke of a pen by Scott Morrison\u2019s Minister for Resources, Keith Pitt who had … Continue reading “Government Succumbs to Community and Labor Campaign to Stop Offshore Drilling”<\/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-14323","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\/14323","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=14323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14323\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}