Tag Archives: Great Barrier Reef

TRAD TALKS IN PARIS BUT WON’T LISTEN TO FARMERS AT HOME

The Palaszczuk Government has continued to pander to green activists and overseas bureaucrats while refusing to consult with Queensland’s farmers and landholders over important legislation, as it continues to manipulate environmental issues for political gain. Shadow Natural Resources Minister, Andrew Cripps, said Deputy Premier Jackie Trad’s media statement following another meeting with UNESCO was a […]

RIDD FURORE JUST THE TIP OF THE CORAL BOMMIE

Categories: Electorate

Hinchinbrook MP, Andrew Cripps, has warned farmers the recent furore over the treatment of James Cook University (JCU) Professor Peter Ridd is only part of a much wider threat to the agriculture sector from green activists and that rural industry groups are currently losing the battle. Mr Cripps said the fact JCU had censured Professor […]

Labor and Greens can’t blame farmers for AIMS figures

Categories: Shadow Minsterial

AIMS figures show coral cover increasing next to catchments with extensive agricultural development Findings contradict green activists’ attacks on agriculture sector Palaszczuk Labor Government’s so-called ‘reef regulations’ punish farmers New figures released by the Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS) fly in the face of green groups blaming farmers for damage to the Great Barrier […]

‘Big Stick won’t help the Reef

Categories: Shadow Minsterial

Queensland farmers are set to be punished with more red tape, regulation and restrictions under the Palaszczuk Labor Government’s ‘big stick’ approach to Reef Management. Shadow Environment Minister Stephen Bennett said Labor’s latest announcement of a ‘new’ targeted compliance program was just a reinvention of old policies that had failed to improve Reef health the […]

Labor Beats WWF Drum On Great Barrier Reef

Categories: Shadow Minsterial

Hinchinbrook MP, Andrew Cripps, said he had warned farmers in the lead up to the state election in January 2015 that Labor and the Greens had done another election deal that would undermine their productivity and tie them up in red tape and now it was coming to pass. Mr Cripps said the Environment Minister, […]

REEF NOT IN DANGER – ALARMISTS RED FACED

Categories: Electorate

Member for Hinchinbrook Andrew Cripps has welcomed the recent decision by UNESCO’s World Heritage Committee not to place Queensland’s Great Barrier Reef on the “in danger” list, hailing it as an uncommon win for common sense. Mr Cripps said despite the inflammatory scaremongering and doomsday rhetoric of the extreme Green movement, which tried to demonise […]

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