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Adam Bandt: Beetaloo project a “massive climate problem”
The Beetaloo basin project has been slammed by Australian Greens leader Adam Bandt, who says it will be a major climate problem for Australia
Greens leader Adam Bandt is now calling on the Labor party to prevent “climate crime” and help stop taxpayer-funded fracking in the Beetaloo Basin, telling ticker NEWS the project will will lift Australia’s emissions by 13 percent.
Bandt says the Greens view the Beetaloo debate as the nation’s first post-Glasgow test – with the party set to introduce a Senate motion on Wednesday to block the $50 million Beetaloo Cooperative Drilling Program.
“What part of no new coal and gas don’t Labor and Liberal understand?”
Bandt, says the crossbench had the numbers to pass the motion with Labor’s support.
“Gas is as dirty as coal”
It comes after oil and gas giant Woodside confirmed its $16.5 billion Scarborough project in northwest Western Australia would go ahead, one Mr Bandt said would be responsible for “a billion tonnes of pollution”.
The Australian Federal Government says the Beetaloo project would create up to 6,000 new jobs.