PROTECTING TASMANIAN JOBS FROM VIGILANTES

A plan to remove a section of the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 will be a significant step towards protecting Tasmanian jobs.

Federal Member for Lyons Eric Hutchinson has applauded the bid to remove the provision that allows radical green activists to engage in vigilante litigation to stop important economic projects.

Section 487 of the EPBC Act provides radical activists who have a political interest in a development an ability to use aggressive litigation tactics to disrupt and sabotage important projects.

“Tasmanians have lived through the anti-jobs Green agenda and suffered while Labor stood by and watched,” Mr Hutchinson said.

“We have seen the economic and social impact of the policies designed to delay and increase risk associated with new investment.

“The fundamental objective of radical Green activism in Australia is to de-industrialise our country and destroy jobs.”

The legislation to remove Section 487 will be introduced into the Parliament for passage through the House of Representatives later this week.

“I now call on Tasmania’s federal Labor MPs to get behind this legislation and show it cares more about jobs in our state than Green elites in Melbourne and Sydney,” Mr Hutchinson said.
Federal Lyons MHR Eric Hutchinson