Adani wants your money for its dirty mine
Adani is currently in private negotiations with the Queensland Government to secure a royalty holiday so they can afford to build their mega coal mine in the Galilee Basin.
The deal could extend until the mine is profitable, which most financial analysts think it will never be. In documents disclosed under Freedom of Information laws, Queensland Treasury officials described the Adani mine as “unbankable”. At stake is up to $700 million in royalties that should be used to fund Queensland’s schools, hospitals and roads.
The government has set itself a deadline of November 30 to make a decision but Queenslanders may never know the details. Both Adani and the government are refusing to divulge information about the secret agreement, citing commercial in confidence.
Read moreI agree with Mark Butler
Shadow Minister for Climate Change and Energy, Mark Butler, says the Adani coal mine or any new coal mines in the Galilee Basin make no sense. He says that the world is shifting to renewable energy to prevent air pollution, to protect our planet from climate change and to save money. Please sign our petition calling on Bill Shorten to adopt a policy that no new thermal coal mines will be opened in the Galilee Basin under a future ALP government.
Dear Mr Shorten
I live in regional Queensland and I agree with your Shadow Minister for Climate Change and Energy, Mark Butler, that no new thermal coal mines should be opened in the Galilee Basin. I am concerned about the impact of new coal mines on the world's climate. That will cause further damage to the Great Barrier Reef, the precious wetlands near Adani's mine, water for farmers and towns and put vulnerable wildlife at risk. New mines make no sense at a time when the world is rapidly shifting towards renewable energy. Like Mr Butler says, renewable energy is less polluting and cheaper than new coal fired power.
I ask your party to adopt a policy that under a future Labor government, no new thermal coal mines will be opened in the Galilee Basin, including Adani's Carmichael megamine proposal.
End Uncontrolled Tree Clearing
"If you lined up more than 1200 bulldozers side by side and cleared a path from Brisbane to Cairns that’s the area that has been and is being bulldozed since the LNP gutted the protections against runaway bulldozing of habitat." says Martin Taylor from WWF Australia.
More than one million hectares of bushland, forests and woodland have been cleared of trees since the Newman Government removed controls on tree clearing in Queensland.
We must let the Queensland Government know that it is unacceptable to put our wildlife, rivers and the Great Barrier Reef at risk by allowing tree clearing to continue.
Sign our petition to say that you want strong laws that protect wildlife habitat from tree clearing right across Queensland.
We are calling on all political parties to end the destruction of habitats by strengthening our tree clearing laws via a 10 Point Plan to Reduce Tree Clearing:
- Use all available means to immediately protect forests and woodlands currently under threat from tree clearing, including declarations prohibiting clearing in sensitive Queensland areas;
- Permanently protect remnant/old-growthforestsandwoodlandsfrombeingcleared;
- Permanentlyprotecthighconservationvalueforestsandwoodlandsfromtreeclearing;
- Apply a consistent approach to protection of forests and woodlands across all sectors responsible for excessive tree clearing (including agriculture, urban development and mining);
- Ensure strong monitoring, enforcement and resourcing of tree clearing laws;
- Remove high risk self-assessable clearing codes, particularly for ‘thinning’;
- Continue to improve mapping for vegetation and halt exemptions via property maps;
- Establish a land carbon fund and resource relevant state departments to research land carbon opportunities for Queensland land holders;
- Ensure all clearing is referred to the Australian Government for approval, if it is likely to impact on protected matters under Federal environmental law;
- Commit to regular (minimum annual) full reporting of clearing data and impacts.
100% renewable energy petition
North Queensland can become a renewable energy hot spot with the right government policies
Around the globe countries are shifting their energy production to become far less dependent on fossil fuels. Sweden has a policy to become the world's first 100% fossil fuel free nation. New Zealand will stop burning coal to make electricity in 2018. Australia can have 100% clean energy too.
If we are going to have any chance of preventing runaway climate change we must end our production of greenhouse gases almost immediately. The choice is clear, either act now or make our planet uninhabitable.
Let Malcolm Turnbull know that you want him to take advice from climate scientists not the climate deniers in his party room.