Greens Senator for South Australia Sarah Hanson-Young will tell Norwegian company Equinor, which plans to drill for oil in the Great Australian Bight, \u201cyou\u2019re not welcome in SA\u201d when she meets with representatives from the company in Adelaide today.
\nSenator Hanson-Young will also highlight the findings of The Australia Institute report released today, showing SA is unlikely to receive any noticeable benefit from tax payments as a result of oil and gas production in the Bight.
\n\u201cSouth Australians don\u2019t want our Bight turned into an oilfield and this is the message I\u2019ll be delivering on their behalf to Equinor today,\u201d Senator Hanson-Young said.
\n\u201cDrilling in the Bight will be a disaster for coastal communities, for tourism and fishing jobs, and could devastate our unique marine life and beautiful beaches \u2013 it\u2019s not worth the risk.
\n\u201cThe Australia Institute Report shows exploration drilling in the Bight would be \u2018unlikely to pay any royalty income or tax to the state or federal governments\u2019\u00a0 and \u2018decades of subsidy may be necessary before major oil and gas projects provide benefits to state government\u2019.
\n\u201cIt would be extremely reckless of any government to put more than 10,000 tourism, fishing and aquaculture industry jobs at risk, for little to no economic benefit. Instead, the Bight should actually be protected from drilling and given World Heritage status.
\n\u201cPolls consistently show the vast majority of South Australians oppose drilling in the Bight, along with the majority of Australians.\u00a0 It\u2019s high time Equinor start listening and the major parties stop doing the bidding of their political donors in the fossil fuel industry and instead act in the best interests of the communities they\u2019re meant to represent.
\n\u201cNo amount of spin is going to change the minds of South Australians – Big Oil is not welcome here.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Greens Senator for South Australia Sarah Hanson-Young will tell Norwegian company Equinor, which plans to drill for oil in the Great Australian Bight, \u201cyou\u2019re not welcome in SA\u201d when she meets with representatives from the company in Adelaide today. Senator Hanson-Young will also highlight the findings of The Australia Institute report released today, showing SA … Continue reading “Hanson-Young to tell Equinor today \u201cyou\u2019re not welcome in SA\u201d”<\/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-3522","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\/3522","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=3522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3522\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}