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Australia’s new environmental protection agency approves coal project, angering climate groups (www.theguardian.com)
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Australia’s new national agency for environmental protection has approved its first coal project, allowing a Queensland open-cut mine to keep digging until 2055 while clearing threatened woodland and koala habitat.

In the back of opening of Betaloo Gas

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/commentisfree/2026/sep/04/beetaloo-carbon-bomb-labor-cant-say-it-wasnt-warned

Albanese’s resources minister celebrating the Beetaloo carbon bomb is a hell of a choice

making it the world’s largest non-oil gas field outside the Middle East or Russia.

Vote Green

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[–] 3 points 2 months ago*

As the great Bliss n Eso once said, labor or liberal, they're the same as the criminals.

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    [–] [S] 6 points 2 months ago

    In the meantime, https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/sep/03/el-nino-supersizing-before-our-eyes-united-nations

    Such cynical disregard.

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    [–] 5 points 2 months ago* (1 child)

    You mean a neoliberal regulator, created by a neoliberal government populated by criminals who are pre-positioned and pre-financed by fossil fuel criminals, is just going to rubber stamp the corporate criminals crimes?

    Nobody could have predicted this.

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    • [–] 4 points 2 months ago

    Man, Graham Readfearn has been doing consistently great reporting on this stuff for over 20 years now, I think. I remember talking to him about it in like 2010. What a legend.

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    [–] 4 points 2 months ago

    Is it because they don't have enough sunshine, or sufficient space to place batteries.?......... /s

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