Shadow Minister for Resources, Senator Susan McDonald, said today\u2019s Federal Court decision to overturn the regulator\u2019s approval for a significant offshore natural gas project in Western Australia, was another example of Labor\u2019s funding for green activists undermining Australia\u2019s future prosperity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Senator McDonald said that this Government\u2019s failure to fix their broken offshore approvals process for natural gas, combined with their deliberate decision to fund green lawfare, has made their anti-gas agenda clear for all to see.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThe Government has sat on its hands and done nothing to resolve a known issue which has ground approvals for offshore development to a halt,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThe Prime Minister needs to apologise to the people of Western Australia for impeding investment and jobs in the west.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cCommonwealth funding for legal action to pick apart the Government\u2019s own broken approvals regulations is a farce that will impact gas production and supply for both domestic manufacturing and energy firming as well as our international partners\u2019 energy security.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThe Government claims it continues to support the gas industry, yet the millions it has spent on the Environmental Defenders Office will lead to more environmental legal activism, destabilising the industry and increasing Australia\u2019s sovereign risk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThe Government needs to come clean about how much taxpayer money has gone towards torpedoing the future production of Australian natural gas.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Shadow Minister for Resources, Senator Susan McDonald, said today\u2019s Federal Court decision to overturn the regulator\u2019s approval for a significant offshore natural gas project in Western Australia, was another example of Labor\u2019s funding for green activists undermining Australia\u2019s future prosperity. Senator McDonald said that this Government\u2019s failure to fix their broken offshore approvals process for … Continue reading “Labor funded lawfare blocks natural gas approvals”<\/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-23168","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\/23168","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=23168"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23168\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23169,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23168\/revisions\/23169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}