Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek has today approved the fourth coal project this year, at the Gregory Crinum Coal Mine in the Bowen Basin, to run until 2073. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
This follows project approvals for the Isaac River Coal Mine, the Star Coal Mine, and the Ensham Coal Mine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Last week\u2019s emissions update found that fossil fuel emissions continue to rise under Labor, their weak 43% by 2030 target won\u2019t be reached until 2037, and Australia won\u2019t hit net zero until 2080.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Even if Labor\u2019s 43% emissions reduction target was reached, it is consistent with a global temperature rise of over 2C, in breach of our Paris Target commitments. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Leader of the Australian Greens, Adam Bandt MP said:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cLabor is making global heating worse by opening new coal mines,\u201d Mr Bandt said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cTanya Plibersek has just approved a new coal project that will run until 2073, when we\u2019re meant to be reaching net zero. That\u2019s another 50 years of coal, when the science tells us we can\u2019t open any new coal or gas mines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe science is crystal clear. If we\u2019re going to stop the world going over the climate cliff, we can\u2019t open up a single new coal project, but Labor has approved four.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWith Labor opening new coal and gas mines, it is no surprise that emissions are continuing to rise under Labor.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Sarah Hanson-Young, Greens Environment Spokesperson, Senator for SA said:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cAnother day, another coal mine approved by the so-called Environment Minister.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cEvery time this Government approves a new coal or gas project they are risking our River Murray, our Reef and the safety of our children.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cOur environment laws are broken. We need laws that stop native forest logging and the stop pollution that fuels the climate crisis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe Minister has promised to fix our environment laws this year and that must include making sure they account for climate change when assessing these projects, at the very least.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek has today approved the fourth coal project this year, at the Gregory Crinum Coal Mine in the Bowen Basin, to run until 2073. This follows project approvals for the Isaac River Coal Mine, the Star Coal Mine, and the Ensham Coal Mine. Last week\u2019s emissions update found that fossil fuel emissions … Continue reading “PLIBERSEK APPROVES LABOR\u2019S FOURTH COAL PROJECT”<\/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-22644","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\/22644","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=22644"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22644\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22645,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22644\/revisions\/22645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}