{"id":14649,"date":"2022-01-28T06:58:22","date_gmt":"2022-01-28T06:58:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=14649"},"modified":"2022-01-28T06:58:22","modified_gmt":"2022-01-28T06:58:22","slug":"greens-you-cant-save-the-reef-while-making-the-climate-crisis-worse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2022\/01\/28\/greens-you-cant-save-the-reef-while-making-the-climate-crisis-worse\/","title":{"rendered":"Greens: You can't save the Reef while making the climate crisis worse"},"content":{"rendered":"

Queensland Senator Larissa Waters said:<\/strong>
\n\u201cA belated cash splash on the Great Barrier Reef is a joke from a government that has turbo charged the climate crisis imperilling the Reef by giving\u00a0billions to fossil fuels and backing new coal and gas.
\n\u201cClimate policy is the most important factor in saving the Reef and the government\u2019s policy is crap.
\n\u201cUnder Scott Morrison\u2019s leadership, Australia played a spoiler role at the climate summit in Glasgow, holding the entire world back from achieving the emissions reduction we need to slow global heating.
\n\u201cThis is a pathetic attempt to shore up Queensland regional seats but if this is to save tourism it\u2019s too late. Cairns tourism operators needed JobKeeper for much longer.
\n\u201cEveryone in Queensland knows Scott Morrison has been wrecking the reef for years. This cash splash is a distraction from his myriad failures on the climate crisis.
\n\u201cWe need to phase out coal by 2030, and the only chance we have at that is by kicking out this appalling government and putting the Greens in balance of power.\u201d
\nSenator Sarah Hanson-Young, Greens spokesperson for Environment and Water said:<\/strong>
\n\u201cNo matter how hard Scott Morrison wants to spin this, he can\u2019t save the Reef while making climate change worse.
\n\u201cPollution from coal, oil and gas needs to be cut if the \u00a0Reef is to have any chance of survival.
\n\u201cOur environment is in crisis and the Great Barrier Reef is at top of the list of casualties. We need genuine action not just lip service. Spending $1 billion of the reef over the next decade, while handing out over $220 million to open new gas wells in the Beetaloo Basin makes no sense!\u201d
\nSenator Peter Whish-Wilson, Greens spokesperson for Healthy Oceans said:<\/strong>
\n\u201cThe science is simple: burning fossil fuels leads directly to warming oceans which are destroying coral reefs and other marine ecosystems.
\n“Giving a billion dollars to ‘save the reef’ while approving new coal mines and gas projects that are killing the reef is simply a sick joke.
\n\u201cThe Reef is on life support and Sussan Ley is offering a cup of herbal tea. She is doing nothing to address the root cause of the sickness and expects Australians and the international community to fall for this tragic deception.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Queensland Senator Larissa Waters said: \u201cA belated cash splash on the Great Barrier Reef is a joke from a government that has turbo charged the climate crisis imperilling the Reef by giving\u00a0billions to fossil fuels and backing new coal and gas. \u201cClimate policy is the most important factor in saving the Reef and the government\u2019s … Continue reading “Greens: You can't save the Reef while making the climate crisis worse”<\/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-14649","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\/14649","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=14649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14649\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}