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04/06/2025

"Most Central Coast residents love our bushland, beaches, lagoons, rivers, wetlands – all the natural attributes that support our lifestyle. That’s a no brainer." So why are they not given more creedence in the draft community plan, especially the COSS which has been an integral part of the Gosford City Environmental Planning for decades. SO why are the ex Wyong council & the conservative block of Council against it?

Mayor Lawrie McKinna has described the Coastal Open Space System or COSS as a “great asset” for the region, but it is unclear whether he will support its inclusion in the new Community Strategic Plan.

04/06/2025

31/05/2025

Every fossil fuel project approval is another domino leading to catastrophic climate impacts.

Yesterday the Labor Government approved the extension of the North West Shelf gas project.

Tomorrow, what?

The Albanese Government cannot approve more polluting projects and live up to its election mandate of cutting climate pollution further and faster and protecting Aussies from climate change.

Another gem from cartoonist Megan Herbert 💪

29/05/2025

Putting aside the issue, he was not required to consider the impact of the project on the climate crisis, because "Climate change is not grounds to refuse or limit a development application under Australia’s national environment law"

Minister watt say it was based on science, the truth on the rock art is spoken by Benjamin Smith, a professor of archeology and a world rock art expert at the University of Western Australia, said while the science in the 800-page report was sound, the government has badly misrepresented what it actually suggested.

He said it showed that local pollution was four times higher now than in the 1970s and that “if we allow what is happening to continue we’re going to very quickly lose the rock art in Murujuga”.

‘Unacceptable interference’
The ABC reported that the chief statistician who worked on the monitoring report, Adrian Baddeley, had expressed “grave concern” about “unacceptable interference” by WA government officials in removing some information from a graph in the report summary. He said the summary had incorrectly stated that the research showed current pollution levels were “lower than the interim guideline levels”.

He said, in reality, the five monitoring sites closest to industry were experiencing pollution levels about the guideline level.

In a complaint email to the state environment department, Baddeley reportedly wrote: “In my opinion, this constitutes unacceptable interference in the scientific integrity of the project.”

Murray Watt will approve the extension of one of the world’s biggest liquified natural gas projects from 2030 to 2070

28/05/2025

This is how bad the nw shelf project is , yet they hedge there bets on money not protecting the environment or a future for our kids in a .

Enough time to listen to All Too Well (10-Minute Version) 28,250,650,000 times

28/05/2025

Sad to say the labor government has approved this climate bom Climate Future LEAN NSW - Labor Environment Action Network Where is there credibility now??

28/05/2025

This is a Murray Watt - Senator for Queensland NOT GOOD ENOUGH Anthony Albanese Dr. Gordon Reid MP LABOR HAS NOW LOST ALL CREDIBILITY WHEN IT COME S TO CLIMATE!!!!

BREAKING: The Albanese Government has just approved the North West Shelf gas project extension until 2070, a climate bomb so MASSIVE it is equivalent to ten years of Australia’s national climate pollution.

Labor is opening the floodgates on climate chaos as NSW cleans up after record-breaking floods and SA farmers battle devastating drought. Australians deserve better from this government.

26/05/2025

Have you contacted Dr. Gordon Reid MP Anthony Albanese Emma McBride MP Murray Watt - Senator for Queensland and tell them you do not support the nW shelf climate bomb.
This project with its 50 new gas wells will impact the coastal biodiversity of Scott reef including the endangered dusty sea snake, pigmy blue whales and vulnerable Green sea turtles
Then there is the amazing indigenous heritage.

Pilbara traditional owner launches legal challenge to stall North West Shelf gas decision - ABC News

Mardudhunera woman Raelene Cooper files a last-minute application in the Federal Court to halt Woodside's North West Shelf gas project as it awaits final approval.

20/05/2025

"Extinction is not a moment in time but rather a consequence of thousands of small and piecemeal decisions over many years. A bitter harvest of large-scale extinction has been hard baked into our nation’s future." Dr. Gordon Reid MP Emma McBride MP Will you support the changes required in this ?

Guardian 13/5- Lyndon Schneiders - executive director of the Australian Climate and Biodiversity Foundation:

"For environmentalists, the need for the Australian government to play a stronger and clearer leadership role in stemming the protracted decline in the health of the natural world is an article of faith, backed by a depressing array of scientific reports that highlight the inextricable loss of wildlife and biodiversity, compounded by the real time impacts of climate change.

Extinction is not a moment in time but rather a consequence of thousands of small and piecemeal decisions over many years. A bitter harvest of large-scale extinction has been hard baked into our nation’s future. Without urgent change, including large scale restoration and reforestation of previously cleared country, we are leaving the future a landscape devoid of birdsong and wonder."

"Furthermore, unless the states are brought in at the outset, many of the on-ground reforms required to stem the loss and to promote the restoration of nature will fail, as ultimately the states retain most powers to protect the environment.

The role and influence of the Western Australian government in helping to scuttle reforms in the past term are a case in point. It is easy to throw rocks from outside the tent – it is time for the state premiers to become part of the solution rather than blockers.

Long-term reform is not going to be easy, but we have now wasted 15 years since the first reforms to the national environment laws were mooted, and everyone has lost, especially the natural world. Watt has a massive responsibility, as does the prime minister and his cabinet, to get it right this time and to bring the parliament with them. Without support in the Senate, reforms will again languish and wither on the vine."

14/05/2025

They are Still in 😳🙄

Nationals Senator Matt Canavan denying climate science on national radio, again. Will the Liberal-National Coalition ignore voters again?

All political parties need credible climate and energy policies to be electable.

Get with the times, Canavan. Yawn.

11/05/2025

Dr. Gordon Reid MP Emma McBride MP Labor need to act on the Nature positive laws they shelved last term to address the and moving forward with the Renewable energy future to stop approving coal mines in a

"Asked about Labor’s “nature positive” laws and plans for a federal EPA, which were shelved in its first term, Albanese said he remained committed to both ideas.

“I said very clearly I want a federal EPA. That was something that was recommended by the review that the Coalition commissioned. I want a federal EPA that supports industry, but also supports sustainability. I think that can be achieved,” he said.

Wade and Lean had been upset by Labor’s spiking of the EPA plan, but Labor sources said the election result and a more progressive parliament should spur the government into adopting a more ambitious plan. Wade said that environmental reforms could be central to boosting Australia’s productivity, which the treasurer, Jim Chalmers, said would also be a first-order issue for Labor."
“With every major economic project in the country needing federal environmental approval, the failure of our current environment laws cuts to the heart of the productivity challenge,” Wade said.

“We urgently need new laws that deliver better outcomes for the environment but faster, clearer, more transparent development decisions too … Environmental law reform is central to the treasurer’s ambitions.”

Asked on Monday whether the majority gave him licence for a more progressive agenda, Albanese said the government had already been “ambitious”, but added: “We’re not getting carried away, we’ve been an orderly government.”

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11/05/2025

ABC: 'Ross Garnaut says this moment is significant.

Four days after Labor's historic election victory last weekend, the leading economist delivered the opening address at the national conference of the Energy Users' Association of Australia (EUAA) in Melbourne.

It was Wednesday morning, and the room was full of representatives from Australia's electricity and gas retail markets, regulators and academia.

Garnaut told the audience that Labor's historic victory should toll the death knell for the political conflict and policy instability that had plagued Australia's energy "debate" for so many years.

He didn't mince his words.'

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