{"id":2023,"date":"2019-03-23T00:02:15","date_gmt":"2019-03-23T00:02:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=2023"},"modified":"2019-03-23T00:02:15","modified_gmt":"2019-03-23T00:02:15","slug":"greens-announce-plan-for-federal-fracking-ban-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2019\/03\/23\/greens-announce-plan-for-federal-fracking-ban-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Greens announce plan for federal fracking ban"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Greens will move to protect Australia\u2019s precious groundwater by extending the \u2018water trigger\u2019 to all types of unconventional gas mining as part of the their plan to ban fracking across Australia, mining and resources spokesperson Larissa Waters will announce today.
\nSenator Waters said while working on the ultimate goal of a complete ban, amending the \u2018water trigger\u2019 to ensure the Environment Minister must fully consider any negative impacts on water or groundwater of an unconventional gas mining project before deciding whether to approve it, would go a long way to protecting our water.
\n\u201cFracking is a disaster for our farmland, groundwater, environment and climate, with dangerous methane pollution leaking from wells and pipes as \u2018fugitive\u2019 emissions,\u201d Senator Waters said.
\n\u201cWe\u2019re on the driest inhabited continent on the planet, which is experiencing unprecedented drought, protection of our precious groundwater must come before the profits of gas companies.
\n\u201cIt\u2019s time for Australia to join the global movement against fracking. \u00a0Bans or moratoriums are already in place in France, Germany, the Netherlands, Wales, Scotland, New York State in the USA and Quebec in Canada.
\n\u201cStates and Territories like Tasmania, Victoria, south-eastern South Australia and parts of NSW have already responded to the community and taken the first steps towards phasing out this dangerous industry \u2013 but sadly, fracking is still legal in Queensland, Western Australia and the NT.
\n\u201cThe Greens have been campaigning against the polluting unconventional gas industry since 2010 but Labor and the LNP continue to champion gas because they take political donations from the gas companies.
\n\u201cLandholders, including traditional owners, cannot say no to unconventional gas because the major parties keep saying yes to their mining donor mates.
\n\u201cWe have energy alternatives which don\u2019t threaten our climate, health, land, and that will create new jobs for workers and communities – CSG can frack off, for the sake of a better future for all of us.\u201d
\nStop Fracking and Unconventional Gas policy here:\u00a0https:\/\/greens.org.au\/sites\/default\/files\/2019-03\/Greens%20Election%202019-Stop%20Fracking.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Greens will move to protect Australia\u2019s precious groundwater by extending the \u2018water trigger\u2019 to all types of unconventional gas mining as part of the their plan to ban fracking across Australia, mining and resources spokesperson Larissa Waters will announce today. Senator Waters said while working on the ultimate goal of a complete ban, amending … Continue reading “Greens announce plan for federal fracking ban”<\/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-2023","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\/2023","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=2023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2023\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}