The Liberal Party\u2019s piecemeal promises on the environment will not undo the damage their billions of dollars in fossil fuel subsidies have done to our natural world, the Greens say.
\n\u201cThis is way too little, way too late from the Liberal Government. Today\u2019s offering is a drop in the ocean to try and appease voters in Victoria rather than properly investing in environmental restoration and tackling dangerous climate change,\u201d Greens environment and water spokesperson Senator Sarah Hanson-Young said.
\n\u201cMelissa Price has been Australia\u2019s worst Environment Minister. She\u2019s overseen cuts to her department and ticked off on shonky approvals for her mining mates on the eve of the election.\u00a0 Today\u2019s she was kept away from Prime Minister\u2019s key environment announcement, keeping her from stuffing up another interview.
\n\u201cIt\u2019s clear the Liberals will never do right by the environment. When they\u2019re handing $20 billion out in subsidies for fossil fuels, they are funding the destruction of our environment.
\n\u201cUnder the Greens plan for the environment, the big polluters would pay for the restoration of the environment and protecting our native species.
\n\u201cWith Adani facing another setback because of its inadequate plan for the black-throated finch, voters are faced with a clear choice this election. A vote for the Liberals is a vote for the big miners over the environment.
\n\u201cUnder our plan projects like drilling in the Great Australia Bight would never go ahead, and the animals that depend on the Bight \u2013 like the Australian sea lion \u2013 would be fully protected.
\n\u201cAustralians have a clear choice. If they want real action on climate change, the protection, and restoration of our environment, and a plan to save our threatened species, they have to vote Green on May 18.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Liberal Party\u2019s piecemeal promises on the environment will not undo the damage their billions of dollars in fossil fuel subsidies have done to our natural world, the Greens say. \u201cThis is way too little, way too late from the Liberal Government. Today\u2019s offering is a drop in the ocean to try and appease voters … Continue reading “Liberals\u2019 empty environment promises”<\/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-2625","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\/2625","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=2625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2625\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}