Labor caved into Santos.

The above from an article by Mike Seccombe in this weeks "The Saturday Post" illustrates just how weak our governments are when it comes to standing up to vested interrests. The fact that letters from the fossil fuel company to Climate Change and Energy Minister Chris Bowen that "The company and its foreign partners could not accept" the government's plan to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, unless it guaranteed loopholes to allow it to keep pollutting.

This at a time when COP28 was in the offing and our government was advanced on announcements re. their Capacity Investment Scheme (CIS) and the National Energy Transformation Partnership (NETP).

The gist of the Santos letter from CEO Kevin Gallagher was that unless concessions were granted, they and their japanese and Korean partners, would pull the plug on a $5 billion gas project and a Darwin LNG project worth $1 billion . Big Deal! At a time like this with COP 28 in the offing, we should be stopping or at least deferring all such projects. But whats worse our government caved in and in the last parliamentry sitting week, very discretely, ushered through legislation to suit. Only good work in the Senate by Independent David Pocock and the Greens enables , we the people, to become aware of this corrupt state of affairs. Of course the ,so called coalition opposition were complicit. Once again the Two Party system prevails. Bugger the Nation!

With a parliament of independent members we would surely overcome these activities.

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