The Senate has today passed a Greens\u2019 motion calling on the Federal Government to rule out giving any public funding to dam and water infrastructure projects that circumvent environmental assessment and don\u2019t abide by proper environmental protections.<\/p>\n
The motion moved by Greens Spokesperson for Water and the Environment, Senator Sarah Hanson-Young, was in response to the NSW Government\u2019s plans to water down environmental rules to fast-track approvals for new dams and pipelines.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Murray-Darling River is in environmental collapse and bypassing environmental protections will do more harm,\u201d Senator Hanson-Young said.<\/p>\n
\u201cPlans to override environmental protections will have negative impacts on downstream communities and the health of the River system.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe NSW Government has itself admitted its building dams \u201cfor the future and to give hope\u201d to communities that are running out of water. Its own allocation rules mean water in any new dams won\u2019t even be used for the community or the environment.<\/p>\n
\u201cAll evidence shows spending more public money on these dams will only deliver more water for big corporate irrigators. Building dams will not make it rain.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Federal Government\u2019s decision to spend public money on new dams that won\u2019t go through proper environmental and economic assessment is reckless and they should follow the will of the Senate and rule it out.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Senate has today passed a Greens\u2019 motion calling on the Federal Government to rule out giving any public funding to dam and water infrastructure projects that circumvent environmental assessment and don\u2019t abide by proper environmental protections. The motion moved by Greens Spokesperson for Water and the Environment, Senator Sarah Hanson-Young, was in response to … Continue reading “Senate calls on Feds to rule out funding NSW dams that bypass enviro laws”<\/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-3910","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\/3910","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=3910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3910\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}