Tasmanian Senator Jacqui Lambie has called on the Greens party to drop their demand for a complete ban on new coal and gas projects and approve the Labor government’s climate safeguard mechanism legislation.
In an interview with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation on March 21, the founder of the Jacqui Lambie Network party said the Greens should stop “crying wolf” and support the safeguard mechanism instead.
The safeguard mechanism is an initiative proposed by the incumbent Labor party, which would mandate Australia’s 215 businesses that emit the highest levels of greenhouse gas cut their emissions by 4.9 percent each year.
“I just think that demand will come in the future. I have no doubts about that. But it’s just not going to happen today,” she said….