{"id":29305,"date":"2024-09-27T23:10:45","date_gmt":"2024-09-27T23:10:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=29305"},"modified":"2024-09-27T23:10:45","modified_gmt":"2024-09-27T23:10:45","slug":"greens-again-urge-plibersek-to-do-her-job-and-use-the-water-trigger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2024\/09\/27\/greens-again-urge-plibersek-to-do-her-job-and-use-the-water-trigger\/","title":{"rendered":"Greens again urge Plibersek to do her job and use the Water Trigger"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Greens have reiterated their call on Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek to do her job and call in Tamboran Resources\u2019 fracking project in the Beetaloo Basin under the Water Trigger, in response to the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ecnt.org.au\/ecnt_stay_application\"><u>Environment Centre NT filing an urgent application<\/u><\/a>&nbsp;to stop the gas company from drilling without an environmental water assessment.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Greens Spokesperson for the Environment and Water, Senator Sarah Hanson-Young said:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIf Minister Plibersek did her job, the community wouldn\u2019t have to take legal action to try to protect surface water and aquifers in the Beetaloo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt is shocking that gas fracking cowboys have started drilling with zero environmental water assessments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt is disgraceful that the Minister is leaving it to communities on the frontline of environmental destruction to do the government\u2019s job and make sure all assessments are completed before any work starts.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe Minister\u2019s request for scientific advice from IESC isn\u2019t good enough. A&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dcceew.gov.au\/sites\/default\/files\/documents\/77821.pdf\"><u>recent presentation<\/u><\/a>&nbsp;to IESC made it clear aquifers in the Beetaloo are \u2018highly susceptible to contamination or drawdown from activities that support shale gas extraction\u2019.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cDrilling must be stopped right now until a full assessment under the Water Trigger is completed. The Parliament gave the Minister expanded water trigger powers last year precisely for this purpose.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI urge the Minister to do the right thing, right now &#8211; call this dangerous fracking project in, look at the science, and listen to the communities and Traditional Owners who have been pleading with you to protect their water &#8211; the lifeblood of the NT.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Greens have reiterated their call on Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek to do her job and call in Tamboran Resources\u2019 fracking project in the Beetaloo Basin under the Water Trigger, in response to the&nbsp;Environment Centre NT filing an urgent application&nbsp;to stop the gas company from drilling without an environmental water assessment.&nbsp; Greens Spokesperson for the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2024\/09\/27\/greens-again-urge-plibersek-to-do-her-job-and-use-the-water-trigger\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Greens again urge Plibersek to do her job and use the Water Trigger&#8221;<\/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-29305","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\/29305","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=29305"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29305\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29306,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29305\/revisions\/29306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}