Oil

Woodside should reconsider James Price Point, despite Barnett’s requests to stay

Media Release | Spokesperson Rachel Siewert
Thursday 22nd September 2011, 4:10pm
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Woodside should move their proposed LNG hub from James Price Point, despite the pleas of WA Premier Colin Barnett, the Australian Greens said today.

Green amendments strengthen national regulator

Media Release | Spokesperson Rachel Siewert
Thursday 15th September 2011, 11:35am
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The Australian Greens have improved the operations of the new national regulator for the offshore oil and gas sector, but say the Government and Coalition have failed to adequately learn from the lessons of the Montara Oil Spill.

Report justifies Kimberley development concerns

Media Release | Spokesperson Rachel Siewert
Thursday 8th September 2011, 10:14am
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A report released by The Australia Institute report has shown that community concerns about the social and economic impact around the James Price Point development are justified, the Australian Greens said today.

Wikileaks cables cast doubt on LNG hub legitimacy

Media Release | Spokesperson Rachel Siewert
Thursday 1st September 2011, 9:36pm
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Australian Greens Senator Rachel Siewert says Wikileaks cables about the development of a gas hub at James Price Point cast increasing doubt over the legitimacy of the development.

Offshore Petroleum - National Regulator

Speech | Spokesperson Rachel Siewert
Thursday 25th August 2011, 4:28pm
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Senator SIEWERT (Western Australia— Australian Greens Whip) (13:21):  The Greens have taken a fairly strong stance, as people would be aware, on these issues and particularly since the Montara inquiry. The flaws in our current regulation of the offshore oil and gas industry were made extremely apparent with the Montara oil spill. As many of you know, I have been engaged with this issue since then and flew up to the Montara well to look at the spill at that time.

Mining, marsupials and rural self-determination

Blog Post | Blog of Rachel Siewert
Tuesday 23rd August 2011, 6:00pm
by ChrisRedman in

"There are things about growing up in a small town that you can't necessarily quantify". Hollywood is a long way from Broome, but when US actor Brandon Routh said this I felt that, in many ways, it summed up why some companies and politicians in the two major parties find it hard to understand why feelings are running so high in the community in regards to the James Price Point gas hub development.

Greens Leader’s statement on the Canberra convoy

Media Release | Spokesperson Bob Brown
Sunday 21st August 2011, 3:52pm
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"Some might call the predicted thousands of trucks descending on Canberra ending up as hundreds (ABC, 21/8/11) a ‘flop', but these Australians have every right to a peaceful presence on the parliamentary lawns," Greens Leader Bob Brown said today.


"It seems like the prime qualification to be there is to be angry about something - these are Abbott's angry people," Senator Brown said.


"But it seems their views on some issues are fairly shorted sighted, very ‘me-now'."


"The number of angry people in Canberra tomorrow will increase much more than the numbers of truckers arriving in town," Senator Brown predicted.


 


 

We're back in town

Blog Post | Blog of Sarah Hanson-Young
Tuesday 16th August 2011, 8:23am
by ParisLord in

We politicians are back in Canberra this morning after a five-week winter recess.

Shell, PTTEP applications should be full assessed - Greens

Media Release | Spokesperson Rachel Siewert
Friday 8th July 2011, 12:36pm
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The Australian Greens have questioned the Federal Environment Department's decision to allow Shell to drill near the newly-declared Ningaloo World Heritage area without a full environmental assessment.