Resources – Thermal Coal Exploration
There are currently four separate tenement areas listed as potential exploration release areas for coal on the MRT website.
There are currently four separate tenement areas listed as potential exploration release areas for coal on the MRT website.
This is the first time we've heard the Premier acknowledge the extremely important role Tasmania's forests play in our emissions profile.
If we do not make large, unparalleled changes by 2030 we will face extreme problems.
The Greens welcome the Liberals’ adoption of our policy to electrify the government vehicle fleet.
The Premier and Climate Change Minister, Peter Gutwein, must rule out burning native forests for energy.
The Gutwein Government needs to come out of hiding on Hobart light rail. It's had 7 years to get the project on track, and yet it’s still stuck at the station.
UTAS bushfire experts are right, the increasing risk of catastrophic bushfires cannot be underestimated. The State Government must be preparing themselves now.
State and Territory Greenhouse Gas Inventories 2018 confirms Tasmania’s native forest estate is foundational to this island’s positive emissions profile.
The continued support by this Government for thermal coal projects in Tasmania remains an ongoing concern to many people in the community and to the Greens.
Reports Midland Energy have not received the $50,000 taxpayer funds they had been granted for thermal coal exploration in the midlands are welcome.