The Albanese Government must immediately rule out granting an extension permit to fossil fuel project PEP-11 after the Morrison Government\u2019s decision to stop the project looks set to be overturned by the Federal Court. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Greens spokesperson for healthy oceans, Senator Peter Whish-Wilson said:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cDisregarding the way in which he went about it, which was typically shocking, stopping PEP-11 was potentially the only good thing Scott Morrison ever did during his time in office. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThis project is toxic. The community doesn’t accept it, the NSW Government doesn\u2019t want it, and even Scott Morrison proved he\u2019d go to extraordinary lengths to kill it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cDuring last year\u2019s election campaign Anthony Albanese publicly opposed PEP-11<\/a>, but talk is cheap. Now his government has the power to stop it, he should put a proper end to this destructive project. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWhen parliament was last in session I introduced the Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage Amendment (Fight for Australia\u2019s Coastline) Bill<\/a> to the Senate. If passed, this legislation would set a precedent for permanently stopping destructive offshore oil and gas exploration in our oceans. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cIf the Government remains serious about stopping PEP-11 it should bring on and vote for the Greens\u2019 Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage Amendment (Fight for Australia\u2019s Coastline) Bill, which would stop PEP-11 beyond any doubt, and prohibit any future petroleum exploration or production in the area for good.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cApproving this project would put our marine wildlife at unacceptable risk, and threaten the thousands of livelihoods along the NSW coastline that depend on healthy oceans. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cIf the Albanese Government doesn\u2019t rule out PEP-11 it can expect to feel the full wrath of a community that considered this battle already won.” <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Albanese Government must immediately rule out granting an extension permit to fossil fuel project PEP-11 after the Morrison Government\u2019s decision to stop the project looks set to be overturned by the Federal Court. Greens spokesperson for healthy oceans, Senator Peter Whish-Wilson said:\u00a0 \u201cDisregarding the way in which he went about it, which was typically … Continue reading “GOVERNMENT MUST RULE OUT TOXIC OFFSHORE GAS PROJECT PEP-11”<\/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-20036","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\/20036","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=20036"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20036\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20037,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20036\/revisions\/20037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}