Senator for South Australia and Greens Environment Spokesperson Sarah Hanson-Young said:
\n\u201cThis is a huge win for the community, the environment and SA\u2019s tourism and fishing industries. It is good for the planet and jobs.
\n\u201cThe community who cherish our pristine coastline, the tourism industry that depends on it, and the fishing industry that relies on clean waters have all fought so hard against these environment-destroying plans. Congratulations goes to them.
\n\u201cThey have proven there was no social licence for an international oil giant to drill in our waters, and that people power can win.
\n\u201cSouth Australians love our gorgeous Bight and we want it protected for future generations and the rest of the world to come and experience.
\n\u201cWhat we need now is World Heritage protection. The Greens\u2019 Bill for World Heritage Listing would give the Bight the protection it needs and deserves from any other oil and gas companies proposing to put it at risk. I call on all other Members of Parliament to back it.
\n\u201cThis decision also shows this is the beginning of the end of fossil fuels. Opening a new fossil fuel basin in the middle of our ocean was always madness. Moving to net zero emissions by 2050 means we must reduce pollution now, not give the green light to new polluting projects.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Senator for South Australia and Greens Environment Spokesperson Sarah Hanson-Young said: \u201cThis is a huge win for the community, the environment and SA\u2019s tourism and fishing industries. It is good for the planet and jobs. \u201cThe community who cherish our pristine coastline, the tourism industry that depends on it, and the fishing industry that relies … Continue reading “Greens response to Norwegian oil giant Equinor's announcment it's scrapping plans to drill in the Great Australian Bight”<\/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-5249","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\/5249","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=5249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5249\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}