Division Description Changes — Motions — Coal Seam Gas Mining — 13th Feb 2020

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Title

  • Motions — Coal Seam Gas Mining
  • Motions - Coal Seam Gas Mining - Protect Pilliga Forest & Great Artesian Basin

Description

  • <p class="speaker">Mehreen Faruqi</p>
  • <p>I move:</p>
  • <p class="italic">That the Senate&#8212;</p>
  • The majority voted against a [motion](https://www.openaustralia.org.au/senate/?id=2020-02-13.42.1) introduced by NSW Senator [Mehreen Faruqi](https://theyvoteforyou.org.au/people/senate/nsw/mehreen_faruqi) (Greens), which means it failed.
  • ### Motion text
  • > *That the Senate—*
  • >
  • > *(a) notes that:*
  • >
  • >> *(i) Prime Minister Scott Morrison has signed off on a $2 billion deal with the New South Wales Government that would fast track the Narrabri Gas Project (NGP), which will extract gas from coal seams lying deep beneath the mighty Pilliga Forest,*
  • >>
  • >> *(ii) the NGP is fiercely opposed by local communities, farmers, and ecologists because it threatens the Pilliga Forest, the Great Artesian Basin, farmers' livelihoods, and food and water security, and*
  • >>
  • >> *(iii) the NGP will further delay the shift to renewables and exacerbate the climate crisis; and*
  • >
  • > *(b) calls on the Federal Government to protect the Pilliga Forest and the Great Artesian Basin from any new fossil fuel projects including the NGP.*
  • <p class="italic">(a) notes that:</p>
  • <p class="italic">&#160;&#160;(i) Prime Minister Scott Morrison has signed off on a $2 billion deal with the New South Wales Government that would fast track the Narrabri Gas Project (NGP), which will extract gas from coal seams lying deep beneath the mighty Pilliga Forest,</p>
  • <p class="italic">&#160;&#160;(ii) the NGP is fiercely opposed by local communities, farmers, and ecologists because it threatens the Pilliga Forest, the Great Artesian Basin, farmers' livelihoods, and food and water security, and</p>
  • <p class="italic">&#160;&#160;(iii) the NGP will further delay the shift to renewables and exacerbate the climate crisis; and</p>
  • <p class="italic">(b) calls on the Federal Government to protect the Pilliga Forest and the Great Artesian Basin from any new fossil fuel projects including the NGP.</p>
  • <p class="speaker">Scott Ryan</p>
  • <p>The question is that the motion moved by Senator Faruqi be agreed to.</p>