Climate Change

NSW still needs a climate change adaptation action plan

10 October 2023

Abigail gave notice of a motion calling for the NSW Government to implement the Audit Office report's recommendations, including urgently delivering a climate change adaptation action plan for NSW. The former Coalition Government...

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Who is to blame for environmental destruction?

21 September 2023

Today in Parliament Abigail gave a speech about the (very few) differences between the major parties — and the (very many) differences between them and the Greens.

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Both sides of politics vote against the Wamberal community

13 September 2023

Today Abigail debated the matter of the horrendous Wamberal seawall proposal. Unfortunately both sides of politics maintained their refusal to listen to the science, which is so clearly telling us we need...

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Media Release: Greens table petition for proposed Wamberal Beach seawall to be stopped immediately until community and environmental concerns are investigated

12 September 2023

NSW Greens MP and spokesperson for the Central Coast Abigail Boyd has today tabled the “Stop Wamberal Beach Seawall” petition in NSW Parliament. The petition received 1,377 signatures in 3 weeks, and...

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Media Release: EPA to prosecute Delta over Vales Point fish kill

6 September 2023

The NSW Environment Protection Authority (EPA) has commenced a prosecution against Sunset Power International Pty Ltd trading as Delta Electricity (Delta) in the Land and Environment Court in relation to a fish kill...

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We can't have climate action without dismantling capitalism

2 August 2023

The Greens interrupted business in the Upper House for a Matter of Public Importance - Labor's failure to act on climate. Read Abigail's speech.

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Raising revenue by taxing the big end of town

11 May 2023

We could raise billions if we taxed the coal industry properly.

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Climate con-artists - Coalition’s offset scheme a dangerous deception

27 January 2023

Once again, the Liberal-National Government is all talk and no substance when it comes to taking action on climate change. Launching the scheme, the Liberals said that it will help NSW reach...

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deforestation for agriculture is a leading cause of climate change

15 November 2022

Livestock farming is responsible for up to 28% of greenhouse gas pollution.

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Another round of Budget Estimates!

15 September 2022

A crazy three weeks of Budget Estimates have just wrapped up here in NSW Parliament. So, what have we learned?

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TAX SUPERPROFITS TO PAY WORKERS MORE

NSW is missing out on tens of billions of dollars. By introducing a progressive coal royalty structure similar to the one in Queensland, we would have raised an extra $20 billion last year.

The NSW Government owns and controls, on behalf of the people of this state, the rights to the minerals and materials that naturally occur in NSW land.

Huge fossil fuel companies are only able to extract and sell these commodities with the consent of the State. It’s time they paid a fair price for that privilege.

The fossil fuel industry has made hundreds of billions of dollars out of their cosy relationship with governments. Granted permission to extract and sell coal, these large multinational fossil fuel corporations pay just over 7% in royalties back to the people of NSW – keeping the rest as mega-profits for themselves. These companies have a track record of taking more than their fair share and leaving communities suffering and stranded with poisoned groundwater, devastated landscapes and a stranded workforce when it suits their business models.

Globally, the hyper-inflation of fossil fuel prices driven by price-gouging opportunism and war profiteering from Putin’s invasion of Ukraine has delivered record windfall profits to these already obscenely wealthy corporations. In the last year, NSW coal exports totaled over $70 billion dollars, but the people of NSW will only see about 7 cents in every dollar, or about $6 billion dollars of that amount.

Rather than going toward schools, hospitals and public infrastructure, billions of dollars went into the pockets of multinational mining corporations. The Greens believe there should be more money for schools and hospitals and less for mining billionaires.

Sign our petition calling on the NSW Labor Government to increase coal royalties to invest in communities.

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