{"id":17902,"date":"2022-08-24T17:38:47","date_gmt":"2022-08-24T17:38:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=17902"},"modified":"2022-08-24T17:38:47","modified_gmt":"2022-08-24T17:38:47","slug":"ocean-acreage-release-demonstrates-why-labor-cannot-be-trusted-to-meet-its-own-weak-climate-target","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2022\/08\/24\/ocean-acreage-release-demonstrates-why-labor-cannot-be-trusted-to-meet-its-own-weak-climate-target\/","title":{"rendered":"Ocean acreage release demonstrates why Labor cannot be trusted to meet its own weak climate target"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Labor has made a mockery of its own weak climate target by offering up 46,758 square kilometres\u00a0of new ocean acreage for fossil fuel companies to exploit in a time of climate emergency.

Greens spokesperson for healthy oceans, Senator Peter Whish-Wilson said:\u00a0<\/strong>\u201cIt\u2019s Christmas Day for fossil fuel companies who have just been handed a big dirty gift: more of our oceans for them to run roughshod in.\u00a0\u201cLabor has made a mockery of its own weak climate target by offering up new areas of ocean acreage for fossil fuel companies to plunder, pollute and profit from in a time of climate emergency.\u00a0\u201cWe already have enough oil and gas in reserves to trigger catastrophic climate change to our planet. There\u2019s no plausible excuse for Labor to put our marine ecosystems in jeopardy for the sake of a few profit-driven interests to drill for the exact same product that is killing our oceans.\u201cThe Morrison Government stopped fossil fuel exploration project Pep-11 due to significant community opposition over it risking NSW coastlines and beaches. In opposition, Anthony Albanese also agreed that this project should be stopped.\u00a0\u201cIf opposing fossil fuel exploration due to community and environmental concerns was good enough for NSW, then it\u2019s sheer hypocrisy not to do the same for coastlines right around Australia.\u201cWhen parliament was last in session I introduced the\u00a0Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage Amendment (Fight for Australia\u2019s Coastline) Bill<\/a>\u00a0to the Senate. If passed, this legislation would set a precedent for permanently stopping destructive offshore oil and gas exploration in our oceans.\u00a0\u201cNew Zealand, Ireland, Greenland, Spain, Denmark, Sweden, Costa Rica, France, Belize, Wales, and Portugal have all implemented bans on new oil and gas exploration \u2013 there is no reason Australia shouldn\u2019t do the same.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>

Greens spokesperson for resources, Senator Dorinda Cox said:<\/strong>\u201cAboriginal people never ceded sovereignty to our lands, waters and sky. Like other nations, First Nations borders don\u2019t begin and end at sea level. Sea Country does not belong to Labor, to sell to the highest bidder.\u201cThe Greens demand that the Traditional Custodians of these waters be consulted and that any corporation or Government obtain their free, prior and informed consent before they proceed with their operations.\u201cUnder the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People: free, prior and informed consent is a human right. If Labor wants to hear the voices of First Nations people, they can start by listening to Traditional Owners fighting for the survival of their communities, culture and country.\u201d<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Labor has made a mockery of its own weak climate target by offering up 46,758 square kilometres\u00a0of new ocean acreage for fossil fuel companies to exploit in a time of climate emergency. Greens spokesperson for healthy oceans, Senator Peter Whish-Wilson said:\u00a0\u201cIt\u2019s Christmas Day for fossil fuel companies who have just been handed a big dirty … Continue reading “Ocean acreage release demonstrates why Labor cannot be trusted to meet its own weak climate target”<\/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-17902","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\/17902","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=17902"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17902\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17903,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17902\/revisions\/17903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}