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Greens slam Labor/LNP's failure to protect Reef

Greens MP Ronan Lee today criticised the Labor State Government and the LNP Opposition for their failure to support a 99 year moratorium on shale oil drilling in the Great Barrier Reef. “Today the two old parties voted together to block my proposals to give the Great Barrier Reef long-term protection from the dangers of shale oil mining” Mr Lee said.  “The jobs of 60,000 Queenslanders depend on the Reef and we shouldn’t allow mining interests to endanger this. “Shale oil extraction could have devastating environmental consequences for the Reef and the Government’s offer of just 20 years protection is not enough.”