The Greens have slammed the Victorian Labor government for encouraging more fossil fuels in the middle of a climate crisis as Labor plots more offshore gas projects in Victoria and backflips on their plans to phase out dangerous gas cooktops in homes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It follows reports today that reveal that the Premier has excluded electrifying existing gas cooktops from Victoria\u2019s net zero road map and has signalled new laws to encourage more offshore gas projects. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Victorian Greens have labelled this move as another cowardly political decision that denies basic climate science and exposes kids to more asthma-causing gas fumes in homes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Gas cooktops are not only terrible for the climate, they\u2019re expensive and they lead to complex health issues including childhood asthma. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Leader of the Victorian Greens, Ellen Sandell says that the Premier is denying climate science and blowing up any ambition that this government had of tackling the climate crisis. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Leader of the Victorian Greens, Ellen Sandell:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cHow disappointing that the Labor Premier is giving in to the fossil fuel gas corporations and their lobby groups yet again. This is a cowardly, political decision that denies basic climate science.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWe\u2019re in the middle of a climate crisis caused by burning fossil fuels, yet Labor wants to pour more fuel on the fire and encourage more offshore gas projects in Victoria. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cJust last month we recorded the world\u2019s hottest day. In a time when countries across the world are trying to speed up their pathway to net zero, the Labor Premier is winding Victoria\u2019s back. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWe\u2019ve seen backflip after backflip from this Labor government. Instead of listening to climate science and the experts, Labor is pandering to the ring-wing conservatives and fossil fuel lobby groups.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWe don\u2019t need any new gas, Australia already exports far more than we\u2019d ever need. It\u2019s expensive and destroys the climate. We should be focussing on supporting people to move to electric cooking and heating, which works just as well and is a lot cheaper and cleaner.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Greens have slammed the Victorian Labor government for encouraging more fossil fuels in the middle of a climate crisis as Labor plots more offshore gas projects in Victoria and backflips on their plans to phase out dangerous gas cooktops in homes. It follows reports today that reveal that the Premier has excluded electrifying existing … Continue reading “GREENS SLAM LABOR FOR BACKFLIPPING ON GAS AND SUPPORTING MORE CLIMATE-DESTROYING FOSSIL FUELS”<\/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-28996","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\/28996","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=28996"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28996\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28997,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28996\/revisions\/28997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}