{"id":6727,"date":"2021-02-23T07:27:10","date_gmt":"2021-02-22T21:27:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/?p=6727"},"modified":"2021-02-23T07:27:10","modified_gmt":"2021-02-22T21:27:10","slug":"national-party-waging-war-against-australian-environment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/2021\/02\/23\/national-party-waging-war-against-australian-environment\/","title":{"rendered":"National Party waging war against Australian environment"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>the Nationals are revolting on climate change, demanding the new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.energy.gov.au\/government-priorities\/energy-programs\/grid-reliability-fund\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">$1 billion Grid Reliability Fund<\/a> be allowed to invest in coal and nuclear power.<\/p>\n<p>Nationals MP <a href=\"https:\/\/reneweconomy.com.au\/barnaby-joyce-shows-why-a-coalition-government-may-never-embrace-climate-action\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Barnaby Joyce<\/a> has lodged an amendment in Parliament to use the fund to build a coal-fired power station.\u00a0National Senate Leader\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bridget_McKenzie\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bridget McKenzie<\/a> argues the fund should be <em>\u201ctechnology-neutral\u201d.\u00a0<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/independentaustralia.net\/environment\/environment-display\/national-party-waging-war-against-australian-environment,14824\">National Party waging war against Australian environment<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>The intense belligerent stupidity of this party is mind blowing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>the Nationals are revolting on climate change, demanding the new $1 billion Grid Reliability Fund be allowed to invest [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[439,425,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corruption","category-env","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6727"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6727\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6728,"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6727\/revisions\/6728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}