Opinion: Tanya Plibersek should seize the moment | Bob Brown
to be destroyed. An inland industrial site was set aside decades ago for such industry, but going there would cost Woodside more. Plibersek visited the Burrup and, over the opposition of local Aboriginal women, gave Woodside the nod.
Morrison’s minister, Sussan Ley, had given MMG the go-ahead but a Federal Court appeal stopped works until a full evaluation of the masked owl’s predicament is taken into account. MMG, owned by China’s Xi government, has options to dumping its waste in the Tarkine, including pulverising it and piping it back underground as is world’s best practice.
Will she side with her environmental constituency which is calling for an end to more coal mines, gas fracking and oil wells?Her top test may be the survival of the Great Barrier Reef. That depends on Australia setting a global example by ending the subsidised fossil fuel projects and forest destruction which are driving the heating and acidification of the oceans.
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