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Anger over proposed changes to national environmental laws is escalating, with legal, health and conservation groups urging that they not pass the Senate, with some warning it would increase the extinction rate.
The government rammed its legislation to change Australia’s Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act through the lower house on Thursday night, prompting outrage from Labor, the Greens and crossbench.
WWF-Australia says the bill in its current reform is a “recipe for extinction” and lacks standards that would ensure strong protections for nature, as well as a commitment to an independent regulator to enforce the law.
Australia’s national environmental laws: what is the Morrison government proposing to change and why?
“There is more than just wildlife at stake here,” Rachel Lowry, WWF-Australia’s chief conservation officer, says. “If approved, this bill will fail Australians at this critical moment in time because it fails to incentivise win-win solutions that stimulate our economy and protect the places and animals we love.
www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2020/sep/06/recipe-for-extinction-why-australias-rush-to-chang... ... Read MoreSee Less
Coal seam gas bubbles up through farmland near scene of infamous burning river video ... Read MoreSee Less
FRACKING GAS BUBBLING UP THROUGH QLD RIVERS IS GETTING WORSE ... Read MoreSee Less
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Join at www.organic-consumers.com.au ... Read MoreSee Less
REMIND ME AGAIN....
Why the f**k are we going all gas in this country when doing so ticks all the ‘terrible idea’ boxes. Bad for the economy, bad for the environment, bad for farmers, bad for preserving precious water supplies, bad for health, bad for energy costs, bad for national security, really bad for climate change, bad for Indigenous peoples and bad for every f**king body (except the greedy crazy corporate elite). Why this insane gas fixation?
“Rather than drill new fracking wells into prime farmland, the quickest, cleanest and most economically efficient way to boost the supply of gas in Australia is to stop wasting it....It is not just manufacturers that don’t really need to burn gas; the Australian electricity industry is trying to wean itself off the stuff too. Before Australia started exporting gas in huge quantities, burning gas was a relatively cheap way to produce electricity during peak times. But that’s no longer the case....The faster we can shut down gas-fired electricity generators, the less need we will have to frack more gas.”
www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/sep/03/phasing-out-gas-would-benefit-australian-manufactur... ... Read MoreSee Less
Origin Energy have drilled on the banks of the Condamine River where the original gas seeps are and there are BIG PROBLEMS - read the article & share the original post.
Article: Origin Water and Gas Incident - Farmland and Condamine Catchment
While water and methane coming to the surface provide a very visible flag of the looming problem, what about the even greater uncertainties for landowners that these abandoned exploration holes together with gas industry depressurisation of one strata, provide pathways for water, methane and anything else to travel to other aquifers important for food production that could result in a myriad of problems.
www.molliwell.com.au/origin-gas-and-water-incident-coal-exploration-bores/ ... Read MoreSee Less
FRACKING AGREEMENT REACHED
Native title holders in the West Kimberley have signed an Indigenous Land Use Agreement with a petroleum exploration company that will allow the use of fracking south-east of Broome.
Theia Energy has been negotiating with the Karajarri people for more than a year, to gain necessary approval for their Great Sandy Desert Project, with an agreement signed off on Friday.
The ABC obtained a conceptual plan of the project last year that showed a network of wells pipelines and even a new port on the Kimberley coast.
But Theia chief operating officer Jop van Hattum said that was not what was being proposed at Friday's meeting, and initially just one well will be drilled and fracked in 2022.
Mr van Hattum said the agreements will provide economic opportunities and control to the native title holders.
"Karajarri people first of all have a lot of control on where well-pads are being established, where pipelines are being established, that their cultural heritage is being protected," Mr van Hattum said.
Karajarri Traditional Lands Association executive officer Martin Bin Rashid said the agreements provided an opportunity for Indigenous people and would protect the environment.
"We see this as an opportunity to take Karajarri forward, we're confident that if fracking is done correctly it is low impact." ... Read MoreSee Less
More photos of the Charleys Creek CSG leak. ... Read MoreSee Less