$1 billion of taxpayers’ money be used to prop up un-bankable, Reef- trashing coal mine! Sign the petition calling on Prime Minister Turnbull to reject Adani’s request for publicly-funded handouts.(sourced https://www.getup.org.au/campaigns[5/03/2017 1:14:07 PM])
A taxpayer-funded Reef-killing project
$1 billion of taxpayers’ money could be used to prop up Adani’s un-bankable, Reef-trashing coal mine! Finance for a railway to Adani’s Carmichael coal mine has been granted preliminary approval.1 During the election Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull said – on camera – that there would be no public funding for Adani’s mine.2 We need to hold him to that promise by reminding him Australian voters will punish him for giving taxpayer-funded handouts to big multinational polluters. Show him that caving in to Adani’s demands would be a public relations disaster for an increasingly unpopular government. Sign the petition calling on Malcolm Turnbull to put Adani’s requests for publicly-funded subsidies in the bin. Together, let’s call for our money to be spent on saving the Great Barrier Reef, not wrecking it.
References:
https://www.getup.org.au/…igns/great-barrier-reef–3/public-money-for-a-train-to-nowhere/a-taxpayer-funded-reef-killing-project?t=4QtnteW[5/03/2017 1:15:17 PM]
GetUp! – A taxpayer-funded Reef-killing project
1. Renee Viellaris, ‘Adani’s $2b rail on track for jobs boom’, Courier Mail, 3 December 2016
2. Fergus Hunter, ‘Election 2016: Protesting Nemo finds Malcolm Turnbull and criticises Great Barrier Reef action’, SMH, 3 June 2016.