\u201cLand clearing in New South Wales is like a runaway train under this Minns Labor Government and it\u2019s wiping out 66,000 hectares of bushland a year and showing no signs of slowing down\u201d, <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI think most people in NSW would be horrified to learn that land clearing is 40% worse under the Minns Labor Government than it was under the Liberal National Coalition Government, but that is the reality these figures show\u201d, <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThe Liberal National Berejiklian Barilaro Government made catastrophic changes to land clearing laws to allow more rural land clearing, and since then the problem has only been getting worse. The Liberals and Nationals have made a huge mess and it\u2019s now Labor\u2019s responsibility to clean it up – but instead of taking action, they\u2019re sitting on their hands while the problem gets worse\u201d, <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWe are well on the way toward mass extinctions and ecosystem collapse unless we reign in land clearing, and that means reform to make our environmental laws stronger, an end to native forest logging and more support for farmers to invest in sustainable agriculture practices\u201d, <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cLabor Premier Chris Minns rode into power on the promise to do better for nature, to date we\u2019ve seen more environmental destruction under his Government than we had under the Coalition. I\u2019m calling on the Premier to open his eyes to the environment of NSW, because to date he\u2019s lost all sight\u201d. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Labor Premier Chris Minns has been challenged to explain his Government\u2019s failure to stop land clearing after shocking SLATs data released today revealed a staggering 40% jump in land clearing rates. Greens MP and Environment Spokesperson Sue Higginson said: \u201cLand clearing in New South Wales is like a runaway train under this Minns Labor … Continue reading “Land clearing under Labor jumps staggering 40%, worse than Coalition”<\/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-33935","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\/33935","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=33935"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33935\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33936,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33935\/revisions\/33936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}