The Victorian Greens have slammed the Federal Labor government\u2019s plan to drill for more climate-destroying gas off Victoria\u2019s coastline. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Federal Labor Government has approved permits to explore waters between South Australia, Victoria and Tasmania. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
It comes after the Victorian Labor Government recently gave Beach Energy the final approval to extract gas offshore in the Otway Basin, where they have now started drilling near the iconic 12 Apostles. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Leader of the Victorian Greens, Ellen Sandell said that it\u2019s outrageous that in the middle of a climate crisis, the Victorian and Federal Labor Governments are both greenlighting more gas. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Leader of the Victorian Greens, Ellen Sandell:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cMake no mistake – this decision shows that Labor does not care about protecting us from climate change. Instead, they\u2019re pouring fuel on the fire by approving more and more fossil fuel gas projects.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThis is a disgraceful and dangerous decision that will commit young people to a climate-destroyed future of more bushfires, extreme weather and floods.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cLabor at both Federal and State level is steamrolling ahead with a plan to wreck our climate and our oceans by approving more and more gas drilling. Labor\u2019s plan hands huge profits to their mates in the big gas corporations, even though these companies export 80% of Australia\u2019s gas overseas, and burning gas causes climate catastrophe.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Victorian Greens have slammed the Federal Labor government\u2019s plan to drill for more climate-destroying gas off Victoria\u2019s coastline. The Federal Labor Government has approved permits to explore waters between South Australia, Victoria and Tasmania. It comes after the Victorian Labor Government recently gave Beach Energy the final approval to extract gas offshore in the … Continue reading “GREENS SLAM LABOR’S PLAN FOR MORE GAS OFF THE COAST OF VICTORIA”<\/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-27991","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\/27991","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=27991"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27991\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27992,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27991\/revisions\/27992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}