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The Northern Territory is the heaviest emitter of CO2 per capita in the world and the Beetaloo Basin LNG project will only make it worse

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It’s relevant in so far as what it says about the extreme carbon intensity of the NT’s economic activity and the current plans to increase that dependence even further.

Per capita is not necessarily relevant from an environmental standpoint directly but it means quite a lot when it comes to gathering the political will to end these emissions and our uncounted carbon exports.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

So they cherrypicked this as something to pick on NT about? While implying that the other states are 'not so bad'? Why should VIC or NSW do anything when NT is twice as bad? And worse than all those petro states too!

If they want to be truthful, they'd just say "NT has the smallest production and the largest reserves in Australia, and we want to stop that".