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The Albanese Government is about to rush through a bill which, Australia Institute research shows, would fast-track 94 new fossil fuel projects.
This will undermine environmental protections and lock in emissions for decades.
We have a week to stop these dangerous changes.
✍️ Sign the petition to protect Aussie nature now!
How many extra possums does it take to compensate for a dead platypus?
How many Murray cod to save a koala? If we are willing to offset the homes of the swift parrot for an arbitrary number of Wollemi pines, then what else are we willing to ‘offset’?
Those are the kind of calculations a bureaucrat would literally have to make under Environment Minister Murray Watt’s new ‘environmental laws’.
Do Australians really think it is okay for developers to take a chainsaw to koala habitat as long as they pay the appropriate fee? They don't.
So why does the Albanese Government think it’s OK for property developers and the fossil fuel industry to destroy the habitats of our endangered species just because they’re willing to pay a destruction duty?
The government's proposed environment laws will undermine the very protections they're meant to give to the wildlife and places Australians love.
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Australia Institute research shows that Australia is currently expanding both gas and coal, with 94 new fossil fuel projects under development. Emissions have continued to increase. And under the current laws, Murray Watt recently approved Woodside’s North West Shelf to continue exporting gas until 2070 – a project which scientists estimate could cause hundreds of heat-related deaths this century.
It’s clear that our environment laws need updating – but for them to work, they need to stop new fossil fuel projects, not rubber stamp them.
To the Hon. Murray Watt MP, Minister for the Environment --
The Australian public voted for a climate majority at the last election, and we want strong environment laws that can stop new coal and gas.
Every new coal and gas mine damages nature. We urge you to strengthen – not weaken – Australia's environment laws.