A road to nowhere and no safe harbour for WA s port future
A road to nowhere and no safe harbour for WA s port future
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A solution to Western Australia s future port needs that alleviates the traffic woes facing residents on Leach Highway lies somewhere between the back of beyond and off in the never-never as successive governments spend millions of taxpayer dollars on partisan policies.
In the past 30 years, Labor and Liberal governments have been more effective at constructing an endless policy roundabout than they have been at developing a solution to the logistical and traffic issues plaguing Fremantle Port and Perth s southern suburbs.
Press Release – Climate Justice Taranaki “When we started Climate Justice Taranaki 10 years ago, we were sitting at 390 parts per million of atmospheric CO2. Since then, countless permits and resource consents have been handed out by Taranaki councils and the Environmental Protection …
“When we started Climate Justice Taranaki 10 years ago, we were sitting at 390 parts per million of atmospheric CO2. Since then, countless permits and resource consents have been handed out by Taranaki councils and the Environmental Protection Authority to oil and gas companies, to drill, frack and contaminate our land, water and sea. Industrial agriculture has been allowed to expand by the continuous use of synthetic fertilisers, imported feeds, land conversion and irrigation in regions that are most vulnerable. Atmospheric CO2 has now risen to almost 413 ppm and is still rising. The time to turn things around is well and truly running out” laments co-founder of Climate Justice Taranaki,
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Sue Surkes is The Times of Israel s environment reporter.
An undated photo of Energy Minister Yuval Steinitz (R) and Egyptian Petroleum Minister Tarek El-Molla speaking during a meeting of the Eastern Mediterranean Gas Forum, in Cairo, Egypt. (courtesy, Israeli Energy Ministry)
Environmental Protection Minister Gila Gamliel on Sunday threw a monkey wrench into the plans of Energy Minister Yuval Steinitz and his Egyptian counterpart to create an Eastern Mediterranean Gas Forum to advance regional interests in natural gas.
By expressing her reservations to the formal ratification of a September signing of statutes by the two nations, along with Jordan, Greece, Cyprus, Italy, and the Palestinian Authority, Gamliel ensured that the issue is brought before the cabinet for a full debate and decision.
We have won so far because geographical isolation gave us about a week of decision-making space to lock down hard.
The extra week was helpful – but much more important was being prepared to make that decision to lock-down hard. The Tory party would have been incapable of such a decision no matter how many extra weeks they were handed – and that was Ed s point. A National government here would have (most likely) been unable to make that decision. Scomo looked like he wasn t capable of that decision – but fortunately state premiers took it out of his hands. It took some guts to defy the belief of the most powerful sectors of society that they have an unfettered right to ongoing capital accumulation under all circumstances. Ardern had the guts and humanity to do it. However this remarkable effort at kicking business into line looks like it was just a one-off.