{"id":1759,"date":"2019-03-07T03:37:39","date_gmt":"2019-03-07T03:37:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=1759"},"modified":"2019-03-07T03:37:39","modified_gmt":"2019-03-07T03:37:39","slug":"a-veritable-army-will-fight-new-coal-greens-tell-nats-on-big-stick-legislation-to-bring-it-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2019\/03\/07\/a-veritable-army-will-fight-new-coal-greens-tell-nats-on-big-stick-legislation-to-bring-it-on\/","title":{"rendered":"A veritable army will fight new coal; Greens tell Nats on \u2018big stick\u2019 legislation to \u2018bring it on\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

A veritable army will fight new coal; Greens tell Nats on \u2018big stick\u2019 legislation to \u2018bring it on\u2019.<\/strong>
\nGreens climate change and energy spokesperson Adam Bandt MP today said that a veritable army will be raised to fight new coal-fired power stations in NSW unless Liberal and Labor commit to stopping them. Mr Bandt also told the Nationals who want the \u2018big stick\u2019 bill to be voted on in Parliament to \u2018bring it on\u2019, flagging that he would amend it to stop taxpayer funds flowing to coal-fired power stations.
\nOn new coal-fired power stations:<\/u><\/strong>
\n\u201cIf Liberal or Labor governments approve these new coal-fired power stations, there will be a veritable army of concerned citizens raised that will ensure it never gets built,\u201d said Mr Bandt.
\n\u201cThe protests against these new coal-fired power stations will make the Franklin Dam campaign look like a Sunday picnic.
\n\u201cAs Treasurer, Josh Frydenberg could stop this project by rejecting overseas government investment in a coal-fired power station.
\n\u201cJosh Frydenberg is under the thumb of the climate deniers and if he refuses to stop this coal-fired madness, we\u2019ll campaign until he loses his seat and the conservatives lose government.\u201d
\n\u201cLabor is trying to walk both sides of the street, saying they won\u2019t direct taxpayer funds to this coal-fired power station while also refusing to say he\u2019ll stop it.
\n\u201cBill Shorten needs to say he will stop any new coal-fired power station from being built, regardless of who is funding it.
\n\u201cWe\u2019re booking our buses, trains and planes to come to NSW to fight this madness until Bill Shorten says he will stop these plants if he becomes Prime Minister.\u201d
\nOn \u2018big stick\u2019 legislation:<\/u><\/strong>
\n\u201cIf the Nationals want a vote to test the will of the people on climate change, bring it on.
\n\u201cWe\u2019re ready and waiting to move an amendment to the \u2018big stick\u2019 bill preventing public money underwriting coal-fired power stations.
\n\u201cIf the Nationals force the government to bring the \u2018big stick\u2019 bill back, we\u2019ll amend it to stop one single dollar of taxpayer money going to coal-fired power stations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A veritable army will fight new coal; Greens tell Nats on \u2018big stick\u2019 legislation to \u2018bring it on\u2019. Greens climate change and energy spokesperson Adam Bandt MP today said that a veritable army will be raised to fight new coal-fired power stations in NSW unless Liberal and Labor commit to stopping them. Mr Bandt also … Continue reading “A veritable army will fight new coal; Greens tell Nats on \u2018big stick\u2019 legislation to \u2018bring it on\u2019”<\/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-1759","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\/1759","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=1759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1759\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}