21st Jun 2021, 4:34 PM – Senate Motions - Energy - Political donations from gas companies

The majority voted against a motion introduced by Queensland Senator Larissa Waters (Greens), which means it failed.

Motion text

That the Senate—

(a) notes:

(i) the International Energy Agency has documented that to achieve net zero emissions requires, from the year 2021, ̔no new oil and gas fields approved for development',

(ii) the immense amounts of pollution that will be released from these gas fields that will blow Australia's carbon budget and ruin any hope of Australia doing its fair share to stop runaway global warming:

(A) Santos' Barossa gas field,

(B) Woodside's Scarborough gas field,

(C) Santos and Energy Australia's Narrabri gas field in the Pilliga, and

(D) Origin Energy, Santos, Empire Energy's Beetaloo Basin, and

(iii) that in the last nine years these gas companies, their owners and directors have donated at least $3,457,641 to the Liberal and National parties and $2,377,838 to the Labor Party for a total $5,835,469 in political donations; and

(b) calls on the Australian Government to stop taking donations from the companies behind these destructive projects that will turbocharge the breakdown of the world's climate system.