Today Theia Energy announced it will resubmit its application to frack the Canning Basin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Theia has changed its plans multiple times in an attempt to dodge Western Australia’s EPA laws, but is betting the McGowan government\u2019s review on onshore fracking will favour companies over the environment. \u201cThe government is allowing manufactured consent for fossil fuel projects. If they won\u2019t invest and support regional communities they are effectively forcing Traditional Owners to agree to these projects.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe International Energy Agency\u2019s \u2018World Energy Outlook 2022\u2019 report doesn\u2019t support the idea of gas as a transition fuel. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cBlack Mountain Energy\u2019s exemption from the export of onshore gas shows the McGowan government is happy to sell out our environment and fuel the climate crisis.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cA report released today by The Climate Council showed Queensland is bearing the brunt of the climate crisis. We cannot allow Western Australia to suffer the same fate by opening up new fossil fuel projects.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cA recent poll showed 63% of Australians want to accelerate the shift to renewables. Rather than open up new polluting projects we need to invest in cleaner, greener renewable energy sources. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWe can\u2019t trust the WA Labor government to do the right thing. We must strengthen our Federal environmental protection laws to ban fracking across all of Australia.\u201d<\/em> Today Theia Energy announced it will resubmit its application to frack the Canning Basin. Theia has changed its plans multiple times in an attempt to dodge Western Australia’s EPA laws, but is betting the McGowan government\u2019s review on onshore fracking will favour companies over the environment. Greens spokesperson for resources Yamatji-Noongar Woman Senator Dorinda Cox … Continue reading “THEIA ENERGY WANTS TO ACCELERATE THE CLIMATE CRISIS”<\/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-19325","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\/19325","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=19325"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19325\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19326,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19325\/revisions\/19326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Greens spokesperson for resources Yamatji-Noongar Woman Senator Dorinda Cox said:<\/strong>
\u201cThe McGowan government should care about its constituents equally. The ban on fracking should extend across all of WA not just the metropolitan regions and southwest.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n
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