No amount of Minister Plibersek\u2019s \u201cformal commitments\u201d to protect the Great Barrier Reef will provide cover from the impacts of new fossil fuel projects she continues to greenlight. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Greens spokesperson for healthy oceans, Senator Peter Whish-Wilson said:<\/strong>\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe Great Barrier Reef as we\u2019ve been lucky enough to know it in our lifetimes isn\u2019t dying by accident. It\u2019s being degraded by governments content with greenlighting new fossil fuel projects which spew millions of tonnes of CO2 into our atmosphere and turbo charge the warming of our oceans. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cIt’s ironic that while Minister Plibersek was virtue signalling the Government’s commitment to protecting the Great Barrier Reef, just yesterday the BOM issued a grave warning of the increased likelihood of an El Nino event this summer, which could have devastating consequences for the Reef.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cNo amount of money or Minister Plibersek\u2019s \u2018formal commitments\u2019 to protect the Great Barrier Reef will protect it from an El Nino marine heatwave event caused by rising emissions from the burning of fossil fuels. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cSo long as Labor continues to greenlight new fossil fuel projects we will continue to see more annual coral bleaching events – end of story.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cLabor can throw all the money it likes at the Great Barrier Reef to avoid an embarrassing Unesco World Heritage \u2018in danger\u2019 listing, but the only thing that will save it from danger is a dramatic decrease in fossil fuel emissions. It\u2019s new coral or new coal, you can\u2019t have both.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" No amount of Minister Plibersek\u2019s \u201cformal commitments\u201d to protect the Great Barrier Reef will provide cover from the impacts of new fossil fuel projects she continues to greenlight. Greens spokesperson for healthy oceans, Senator Peter Whish-Wilson said:\u00a0 \u201cThe Great Barrier Reef as we\u2019ve been lucky enough to know it in our lifetimes isn\u2019t dying by … Continue reading “CLIMATE ACTION, NOT VIRTUE SIGNALLING, WILL HELP PROTECT GREAT BARRIER REEF”<\/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-21352","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\/21352","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=21352"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21352\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21353,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21352\/revisions\/21353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}