Fight for the Reef continues

Over the last two days there’s been huge news about the projects driving the Abbot Point Port expansion and its Reef-wrecking potential. The Federal Court has ruled that Environment Minister Greg Hunt’s Department didn’t follow the environmental laws when he approved the Carmichael mine, and they’ve demanded he go back, look at all the documents and do the approval properly. We also learned overnight that the Commonwealth Bank are pulling out of the project. The mine, and its proponents Adani now have no approval to proceed, and there’s also extensive reporting suggesting it will never be able to get the finance it needs to proceed.  The legal process has highlighted factual errors around modelling, the mine’s impact on vulnerable species, misleading job figures, and its impact on global warming. If big banks don’t want to touch this project, how can Minister Hunt approve it, when it also poses such a massive threat to the Great Barrier Reef - the one the World Heritage Committee just put him on probation to protect. There is no good reason for the Minister to approve this project. It’s bad for the Great Barrier Reef, a bad investment and a bad economic decision. It shouldn’t be approved and it shouldn’t be backed financially. With your help we’ve made these powerful interests back off. A massive thank you. We’re close to a historic moment for the Reef, but it’s not over yet: Despite the lack of private funding, Minister Hunt could still approve this project. In fact he indicated as much yesterday. He could even use your money to pay for it. The government have a $5 billion slush fund that they could use to pay for this dangerous project. It’s important we do something right now. Send them an email. Tell them we don’t want our good money sent after this bad project. Tell the government not to waste our money on this dangerous project. For the reef. The Fight For the Reef Team