The NSW Government\u2019s decision to ban offshore oil and gas exploration has been welcomed by the Greens, who have commended the coastal communities that have fought tirelessly for the win.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Greens spokesperson for healthy oceans, Senator Peter Whish-Wilson said:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cToday\u2019s decision by the NSW Government is momentous – but this win belongs to all those ocean-goers who have rallied hard on this matter for years in a bid to protect their local marine ecosystems and avoid irreversible changes to the Earth\u2019s climate. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cIt is unforgivable that our government continues to invite big oil and gas corporations to explore our marine environment for the very product that is killing our oceans. People want their leaders to start taking bold and radical climate action, and today\u2019s news is welcome proof that with enough sustained pressure people power and protest action works. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cI call on all other states to resist the toxic influence of big oil and gas companies and follow NSW\u2019s momentous lead on banning oil and gas exploration in state waters. Especially the Victorian, West Australian and Tasmanian Governments which all have dangerous offshore oil and gas projects in the works \u2013 these projects are already threatening their coastal communities and local fisheries with things like risky seismic testing. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe Greens will continue our plan to ban all new oil and gas exploration in our Commonwealth waters. New Zealand, Greenland, Spain, Denmark, Costa Rica, France, Belize and Portugal have all implemented bans on new oil and gas exploration \u2013 there is no reason Australia shouldn\u2019t do the same.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The NSW Government\u2019s decision to ban offshore oil and gas exploration has been welcomed by the Greens, who have commended the coastal communities that have fought tirelessly for the win. Greens spokesperson for healthy oceans, Senator Peter Whish-Wilson said:\u00a0 \u201cToday\u2019s decision by the NSW Government is momentous – but this win belongs to all those … Continue reading “Greens welcome offshore oil and gas exploration ban in NSW”<\/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":[2,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aussie","category-nswnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15071","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=15071"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15071\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15072,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15071\/revisions\/15072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}