A controversial offshore gas project killed off by Scott Morrison in the lead-up to the federal election will reappear as a battleground issue in the NSW state election, as teal independents targeting Liberals seats put climate and environmental protection at the centre of their platforms.
Critically, the electorate has been directly exposed to debate on the high-profile PEP-11 permit, which covers offshore ground within 50 kilometres of Sydney and Central Coast beaches. The permit held by Asset Energy was killed off in December 2021 by then-prime minister Mr Morrison in what has been regarded as a political play to safeguard coastal Liberal seats under threat from the teals, including Mackellar and Wentworth.
“They know that the answer [to an energy crisis] isn’t drilling off the coastline for gas,” she said.Opposition to the project and offshore gas exploration was not a case of NIMBYism, she said. Community resistance to the project also came out of a desire to protect electorates north and south of Pittwater,
Source: Law Daily Report (lawdailyreport.net)
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