{"id":36570,"date":"2025-12-14T14:04:25","date_gmt":"2025-12-14T03:04:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=36570"},"modified":"2025-12-14T14:04:25","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T03:04:25","slug":"labors-ocean-acreage-handout-exposes-fossil-fuel-state-capture-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2025\/12\/14\/labors-ocean-acreage-handout-exposes-fossil-fuel-state-capture-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Labor\u2019s ocean acreage handout exposes fossil fuel state capture"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Greens have slammed the Albanese government for handing out new ocean acreage<\/u><\/a> to their donor mates in the fossil fuel industry to exploit in a time of climate emergency. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Labor\u2019s disgraceful decision has nothing to do with everyday Australians and everything to do with the state capture of our government by fossil fuel corporations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Australia is the second biggest exporter of fossil fuels in the world, after Russia. Yet Labor has no plan to deal with our exports, and is content with 56% of all Australia\u2019s gas being exported without paying any royalties<\/u><\/a> or resource rent tax. That\u2019s $170 billion dollars worth of free gas over the next five years for big gas companies. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

There\u2019s no plausible excuse for Labor to risk destroying marine ecosystems with seismic blasting only to lock Australia into more fossil fuel pollution and accelerate climate-driven disasters for the sake of a few profit-driven interests \u2013 but that\u2019s exactly what this shameful government continues to do, over and over again. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Greens spokesperson for healthy oceans, Senator Peter Whish-Wilson:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cLabor\u2019s two-faced climate act is wearing thin. How on earth is ripping open new gas fields for fossil fuel companies to plunder, pollute and profit from in a time of climate emergency consistent with transitioning to a clean energy future?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAustralia has decades of gas left in our proven reserves system. There is no need to put marine wildlife and livelihoods that depend on healthy oceans at risk by using destructive methods to search for new gas fields. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAustralia is the second biggest exporter of fossil fuels in the world. Clearly, we don\u2019t have a gas supply problem, we have a political problem. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cOil and gas corporations come to our shores and take billions in government handouts, pay less tax than a nurse or a teacher, and then leave us to foot the bill of cleaning up their polluting rigs when they\u2019re done. It\u2019s a complete rort. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cLabor is taking Australians for fools, but coastal communities aren’t so easily conned. Last year one of the largest seismic blasting proposals in Australian history was withdrawn by its proponent following immense community pressure. It was a siren call to all the fossil fuel companies eyeing off our oceans that their time is up. But clearly Labor is either too arrogant or too greedy to care.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Greens Resources Spokesperson, Senator Steph Hodgins-May:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cLabor\u2019s new ocean acreage handout is an environmental betrayal and an early Christmas gift to the fossil fuel companies driving the climate crisis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe have an export crisis, not a supply crisis. Labor is pre-empting the Gas Market Review by opening up new supply instead of fixing the existing broken system that allows big gas companies to export $170 billion dollars of free gas over the next five years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cBy incentivising decades worth of new gas, this government is ignoring science, setting us up to miss critical climate targets, and accelerating environmental disasters here and across the globe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe way to fix this crisis is to implement a 25% Gas Export Tax, which will deliver real cost-of-living relief instead of more of the same climate-wrecking gas projects.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Greens have slammed the Albanese government for handing out new ocean acreage to their donor mates in the fossil fuel industry to exploit in a time of climate emergency.  Labor\u2019s disgraceful decision has nothing to do with everyday Australians and everything to do with the state capture of our government by fossil fuel corporations. Australia is … Continue reading “Labor\u2019s ocean acreage handout exposes fossil fuel state capture”<\/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-36570","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\/36570","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=36570"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36570\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36571,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36570\/revisions\/36571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}