[Greens-Media] FW: Media Release - Budget Response - Giz Watson MLC

[Jurak, Nina]

Greens dismiss "sandbags and roads" budget

"$60 million on bitumen and infrastructure in our National Parks will do nothing to protect WA's unique and threatened biodiversity." Said Greens spokesperson on the environment Giz Watson MLC.

"There is no money in the budget to expand the conservation estate instead there will be more tourist pressure and more roads. The community expects the environment budget to be spent on conservation not road building!" she said.

"Also the budget has a pittance for an ill-considered net feed-in tariff system for renewable energy, and nothing else of consequence to drive WA's carbon emissions down."

"The budget for the Department of Environment and Conservation shows that when it comes to the environment this Government has only two messages; let's build roads to existing national parks but not expand the conservation estate, and let's make plans to react to a rising sea level but not do anything about the cause.



Nina Jurak
Electorate Officer for Giz Watson MLC
Member for North Metropolitan Region

339 Oxford Street Leederville  WA  6007
Ph - (08) 9201 0582
Fax - (08) 9201 0583

http://www.mp.wa.gov.au/giz-watson

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