The Australian Greens have demanded Prime Minister Albanese rule out the use of national interest exemptions to sidestep environment laws for the benefit of salmon farms in Macquarie Harbour.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThis would be an outrageous abuse of power and the Prime Minister needs to immediately rule it out,\u201d Greens Senator for Tasmania Nick McKim said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cAfter his capitulation to logging and mining interests last week, Mr Albanese is now dancing to the tune of multinational salmon farming corporations.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“Protecting mutinational corporate profits and driving an ancient species to extinction is most certainly not in the national interest.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWhenever there is a choice between protecting nature or enhancing corporate profits, Labor can be relied on to side with the big polluters.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cMr Albanese is trying to use what are essentially emergency powers to respond to natural disasters to protect corporate interests.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cHe is in a dangerous race to the bottom with Peter Dutton when it comes to trashing the environment.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“Mr Albanese needs to learn that he can’t outflank Dutton to the right on nature and that trying to do so will lead to extinction for the Maugean skate.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Australian Greens have demanded Prime Minister Albanese rule out the use of national interest exemptions to sidestep environment laws for the benefit of salmon farms in Macquarie Harbour. \u201cThis would be an outrageous abuse of power and the Prime Minister needs to immediately rule it out,\u201d Greens Senator for Tasmania Nick McKim said. \u201cAfter … Continue reading “Albanese must not sell out the environment to big salmon corporations”<\/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-30485","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\/30485","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=30485"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30485\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30486,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30485\/revisions\/30486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}