A disgusting pollution event at Verona Sands shows how unaccountable Tasmania’s salmon farming corporations have become, the Greens say.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThis is a gross and disgusting mess on a beautiful and much-loved beach,\u201d Greens Senator for Tasmania Nick McKim said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThis is what happens when salmon farming corporations think they are above the law.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThe industry should have got on the front foot and been up front with Tasmanians about this event, but instead they\u2019ve ducked for cover. This is appalling corporate behaviour.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThe Labor and Liberal parties bend over backwards for salmon farms, which leads to complacency from the big multinational corporations who only care about profit.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWe have a complicit Liberal state government in bed with salmon farming corporations, and a Federal Labor government promising to undermine Australia\u2019s weak environment laws to benefit corporate profits.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThe environment regulator needs to come down on the responsible company like a tonne of bricks, but more importantly the Labor and Liberal parties need to get out of the pockets of big salmon, and start acting to protect the environment.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A disgusting pollution event at Verona Sands shows how unaccountable Tasmania’s salmon farming corporations have become, the Greens say. \u201cThis is a gross and disgusting mess on a beautiful and much-loved beach,\u201d Greens Senator for Tasmania Nick McKim said. \u201cThis is what happens when salmon farming corporations think they are above the law.\u201d \u201cThe industry … Continue reading “Fish Farm\u2019s mess reeks of an industry above the law”<\/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-31441","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\/31441","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=31441"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31441\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31442,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31441\/revisions\/31442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}