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'Living wonders' group loses court appeal to consider climate impacts for coal, gas approvals (www.abc.net.au)

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[–] Kanzar 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Well aren't we fucked. Guess we're just even more fucked, and faster.

Best hope I do die before 60, it's going to be fucking miserable by then.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Well yes but Vote Green to at least try and move the political dial on this and hope the completly and utterly fucked can be dialed back in time to just fucked.

We're decades behind on this because of the intragience of voters reelecting the same sorts of polticans. I am not sure we have time to come back from the brink but one things for sure, neither the ALP nor the LNP are at all interested in anything but pushing us over the edge

[–] Kanzar 1 points 8 months ago

Oh yes I do vote for hope. Sadly I'm in a very blue/teal area, and the constituents openly mock the very idea of voting for Labor let alone the Greens (they get very offended if you even ask if they did, like one who was complaining about [policy they wish existed but only the Greens had campaigned on]).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:

The Federal Court has ruled that Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek does not have to consider the environmental impacts of emissions when approving coal and gas projects.

The ruling establishes a precedent that the federal government can ignore the risk such fossil fuel projects pose to protected plants, animals, and places when deciding whether to approve them.

The environment minister has veto power over major projects if they would impact "matters of national environmental significance", such as protected plants, animals and ecosystems.

The council still maintained the minister didn't properly assess the risks posed by the emissions when the coal is burnt, and appealed to a full bench of the Federal Court.

The "drop in the ocean argument" is that overall, these emissions are insignificant compared to the problem, and can't be directly responsible for the environmental impacts that the ECoCeQ argues are happening.

Lawyers for ECoCeQ told the court that demand for coal was declining internationally, and there was too much uncertainty to claim that the projects wouldn't cause a net increase in emissions.

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