Tuesday, 18 June 2024

Richmond electorate

Gabrielle DE VIETRI (Richmond) (14:53): (686) My question is for the Minister for Climate Action. There is no question about it: gas is a dirty fossil fuel, the burning and extraction of which will accelerate the climate crisis and destroy the environment. Yet two weeks ago this Victorian Labor government just approved the first new offshore gas project in Victoria in over a decade in Gunditjmara sea country right near the Twelve Apostles, and there are a dozen more proposals in the pipeline. Labor is turning its back on the community, on First Nations groups and on the overwhelming scientific evidence telling us that to avoid catastrophic climate change we need to keep fossil fuels in the ground. What is the Minister for Climate Action doing if not stopping new fossil fuel projects from devastating our future?