Senator Milne's Motion 17th Nov 2010

This is from p62 of the Senate Hansard from yesterday. You can find the full Hansard here:

http://www.aph.gov.au/hansard/hanssen.htm

This is the text of a motion Senator Milne (Greens) wishes to put to the Senate. It is a clear example of the hypocrisy of the ALP when it comes to the environment, and of their cynical manipulation of the electorate through base propaganda.

"Senator Milne to move on the next day of sitting:

That the Senate—

(a) notes:

(i) that the planned Wandoan coal mine in Queensland

would, at its peak coal production, contribute

the equivalent of 0.17 per cent of total global

emissions according to Xstrata's own numbers,

(ii) that approximately 108 of the 186 world nations

have annual domestic emissions less than what

will result from this single mine each year,

(iii) that the emissions from burning this coal would

neither be affected by a domestic carbon price nor

be relevant to the mine's assessment under the Environment

Protection and Biodiversity Conservation

Act 1999 (the Act),

(iv) the statement by the Prime Minister on 17 November

2010 that 'it is up to this generation of

people and the generations coming up fast behind

it to take the action necessary to tackle climate

change', and

(v) the hypocrisy of approving new coal mines while

arguing that climate change is real and urgent; and

(b) calls on the Government to give itself the power to

stop such hugely polluting developments by introducing

a long-promised greenhouse trigger into the Act."