Our Best Chance Yet !! Save the Reef 350 org

Dear friends,

Right now we have one of the best opportunities we’ve ever had to stop the world’s largest coal port being built on the Great Barrier Reef. But we need to act fast.

It looks almost certain that the ALP has won Government in Queensland, following Saturday’s historic election which swept coal-loving Premier Campbell Newman out of office after just one term.

Click here to tell the ALP to say no to devastating coal projects on the Reef today!

Under Newman, plans to build one of the world’s largest coal port at Abbot Point, in partnership with Indian mining giant Adani, were racing ahead. Abbot Point would provide a gateway for coal companies to unlock nine new mega coal mines in the Galilee Basin that would triple Australia’s carbon emissions and devastate the Great Barrier Reef.

While the ALP have stopped short of saying they will cancel these projects all together, they have made some strong promises on the election campaign trail. These include:

• Banning the environmentally-damaging dumping of dredge spoil in the Great Barrier Reef & internationally-significant Caley Valley wetlands
• Cancelling taxpayer-funded subsidies to co-fund the billionaire-owned private rail line connecting the Galilee Basin to Abbot Point
• Prohibiting dredging of the Reef unless Adani can demonstrate these projects stack-up financially (which we know they can’t).

You can be certain that Adani and their cronies will be getting in the ears of the ALP right now so it’s crucial that we act immediately to make sure the incoming Government hears our voices over the money and power of the fossil fuel lobby.

Call on the incoming Queensland government to say no to projects that would destroy the Reef and cook our climate.

It’s hard to overstate the impact that these new mines will have on the climate. If the Galilee Basin were a country, the carbon dioxide produced from burning this coal would make it the seventh dirtiest fossil fuel burner on the planet. This is “make or break” for the climate.

If the ALP lives up to its commitments, these projects could be delayed indefinitely — which would give us more time to convince global financiers that they are a bad deal. We have an opportunity to get a real commitment from this new Government and take a major leap forward in protecting the climate and our Reef for good.

Send a message to the ALP today and tell them to put an end to these projects before it’s too late – the climate and our Reef depend upon it.

For a brighter future,

Moira for the 350.org Australia team

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