In the Senate this afternoon Labor voted to open new gas fields, with its gas code narrowly avoiding a Senate defeat by 16 votes to 21.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Greens Leader Adam Bandt MP<\/strong> said:<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cLabor has voted to open new gas fields.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cIn the middle of a climate crisis, Labor is gaslighting the public, pretending to take climate action while opening new coal and gas mines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cGas is as dirty as coal, and every new Labor gas development puts us on track for an unliveable climate future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cLabor\u2019s gas code gives big corporations a financial incentive to open new gas fields.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThere\u2019s plenty of gas in Australia to get us through the transition, but Labor is peddling Morrison-era spin that new gas fields are the only answer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cLabor\u2019s backing for more coal and gas is now clear. Labor backs the Santos\u2019 Narrabri gas project, the Beetaloo climate bomb and Woodside\u2019s Burrup Hub disaster, which contain decades worth of pollution and put a safer climate further out of reach.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWe\u2019re up for regulating the gas corporations and ensuring gas isn\u2019t sent offshore while Australian business transitions, but the experts and climate scientists make it clear that there is no room for new coal or gas if we\u2019re to have any chance of meeting climate targets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In the Senate this afternoon Labor voted to open new gas fields, with its gas code narrowly avoiding a Senate defeat by 16 votes to 21. Greens Leader Adam Bandt MP said: \u201cLabor has voted to open new gas fields. \u201cIn the middle of a climate crisis, Labor is gaslighting the public, pretending to take … Continue reading “LABOR VOTES FOR MORE GAS AS BROKEN GAS CODE NARROWLY PASSES SENATE”<\/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-24255","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\/24255","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=24255"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24255\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24256,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24255\/revisions\/24256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}