The Prime Minister must drop his plans to green light major developments and new mines at the expense of the environment, after the devastating assessment of Australia\u2019s environmental trajectory in the just-released interim report into Australia\u2019s federal environment laws, the Greens say.
\nGreens Spokesperson for the Environment Senator Sarah Hanson-Young said:
\n\u201cOur environment is in crisis and our native wildlife is facing extinction. Unless we change business-as-usual our environment is destined for more destruction. Our wildlife, our beaches, our forests will be gone.
\n\u201cIt\u2019s clearer than ever that we need stronger protections, not weaker laws if we are to save our environment.
\n\u201dThe independent review has declared that Australia\u2019s \u2018current environmental trajectory is unsustainable\u2019. The report identifies land-clearing, habitat loss and climate change are destroying our environment and killing our wildlife.
\n\u201cThe outlook is worse than grim. The PM must immediately drop his plans to make approvals for big developers, land clearing and new mines easier – that\u2019s the last thing our environment needs right now.
\n\u201cOur environment is on a path of destruction, we need National Environmental Standards that reverse this and put a stop to further destruction from big development, land-clearing and mines.
\n\u201cThe Report recommends a \u2018strong, independent cop on the beat\u2019 to enforce these rules to save our environment and wildlife.
\n\u201cIt is disappointing Minister Ley has already rejected the recommendation of an independent cop on the beat, signalling her intent to carry on as always, allowing our environment to be destroyed for the profits of their political donors.
\n\u201cEnvironmental standards will be worthless if there is no one there to enforce them. This report shows the government can\u2019t be trusted.
\n\u201cThe Report also makes it clear the impacts of projects on climate change must be considered in environmental impact assessments. The Greens have a bill currently before the Parliament for a \u2018Climate Trigger\u2019 which would do just that and it should be supported.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Prime Minister must drop his plans to green light major developments and new mines at the expense of the environment, after the devastating assessment of Australia\u2019s environmental trajectory in the just-released interim report into Australia\u2019s federal environment laws, the Greens say. Greens Spokesperson for the Environment Senator Sarah Hanson-Young said: \u201cOur environment is in … Continue reading “Environment in crisis and stronger laws with a cop on the beat needed, report to government shows”<\/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-7364","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\/7364","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=7364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7364\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}