The Labor party backroom boys are pressuring Queensland\u2019s Labor Premier to approve stage 3 of the New Acland coal mine, showing fossil fuel donors still call the shots, say the Australian Greens.
\n\u201cProving how powerful the coal mining lobby and their donations are on federal Labor, there\u2019s now three federal Labor party MPs pushing the Premier to approve the Acland coal mine despite the mine\u2019s approval currently being before the High Court,\u201d said Senator Larissa Waters, Australian Greens Senate Leader and Mining and Resources spokesperson.
\n\u201cAnthony Albanese should tell his backroom boys to leave the Premier alone and wait for the High Court to do its job.
\n\u201cIt\u2019s ludicrous that any political party would back more bushfire turbo-charging coal mines after the summer we faced, and as the climate crisis intensifies.
\n\u201cIt\u2019s about time Labor listened to the climate science and the community, not its corporate fossil fuel donors.\u201d
\nMichael Berkman, Queensland Greens MP for Maiwar and one-time lawyer for the farmers opposing the mine said that after 15 years of court cases it\u2019s time for the Premier to listen to farmers and residents and refuse approval for New Acland Stage 3.
\n\u201cThe New Acland Coal Mine is vehemently opposed by local farmers, who are terrified about the impacts on water, prime farmland and their health.
\n\u201cQueenslanders are sick of decisions being made in the best interests of donors, rather than the community.
\n\u201cWhile Labor\u2019s fighting everyday people so their coal donors can make a profit, the Greens will keep fighting for real, well-paid, sustainable jobs in tourism, education, social housing construction and publicly owned renewable energy,\u201d\u00a0concluded Mr Berkman.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Labor party backroom boys are pressuring Queensland\u2019s Labor Premier to approve stage 3 of the New Acland coal mine, showing fossil fuel donors still call the shots, say the Australian Greens. \u201cProving how powerful the coal mining lobby and their donations are on federal Labor, there\u2019s now three federal Labor party MPs pushing the … Continue reading “Backroom Labor boys doing their coal donors\u2019 bidding”<\/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-7274","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\/7274","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=7274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7274\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}