environment Claims | PoliticalClaims.au

5.5 Partially True

6.5

"Passed Environment Protection Reform Bill, establishing National EPA (commencing 1 July 2026)"

EnvironmentProtectionReform

C0003 Partially True

6.0

"Paid 8 times more than the market rate to conserve water in the Murray Darling Basin (overpayment of $112 million)."

EnvironmentTax

C0004 Misleading

6.0

"Proposed new laws which will allow the government to block capitalists from planting lots of trees to fight climate change, despite saying they plan t..."

ClimateEconomyEnvironment

C0005 Partially True

6.0

"Spent $450 million on carbon capture and storage projects (CCS), resulting in every attempted project being cancelled or late, with no carbon actually..."

ClimateEnvironmentTax

C0011 Partially True

7.0

"Burnt brown coal (the dirtiest kind of coal) and used the electricity to split water to make hydrogen, to export to Japan, then claimed this is green ..."

ClimateEnvironment

C0012 Partially True

6.5

"Took children to court to argue that the environment minister is not required to consider the harm their decisions cause to young Australians via Clim..."

ClimateEnvironment

C0014 True

7.5

"Paid $300 million to landfill operators for carbon credits (ACCUs) to incentivise them to burn methane which they would have burnt anyway. This is in ..."

ClimateEnvironmentTax

C0018 True

7.0

"Failed to achieve their own water efficiency targets for the Murray Darling off-farm efficiency program, achieving only 1% of what they said they woul..."

Environment

C0020 Partially True

6.0

"Purchased 70,000 tonnes of coal to be shipped to the other side of the world to give to Ukraine. It would be cheaper and quicker to simply buy it from..."

ClimateCorruptionDonors +2 more

C0023 Partially True

6.0

"Chose not to publish a 5-yearly report about the official state of the environment for over 3 months, so that voters in the 2022 election won't know w..."

CorruptionEnvironment

C0028 Partially True

6.0

"Prevented the release of data relating to the effectiveness of carbon credit schemes to improve forest regeneration."

ClimateCorruptionEnvironment

C0030 True

8.0

"Vetoed research grants for projects about climate activism and Chinese politics, thereby undermining the independence of the Australian Research Counc..."

ClimateCorruptionEducation +2 more

C0038 True

6.0

"Approved projects which will destroy 25,000 hectares of koala habitat."

Environment

C0039 True

8.0

"Claimed that a corporate emissions baseline policy is a sneaky proposal by Labor, when actually it's their own policy that they already legislated."

ClimateEnvironment

C0041 Partially True

6.5

"Paid hundreds of millions of dollars in carbon credits to landowners for growing trees which were already there."

ClimateEnvironmentTax

C0044 True

6.5

"Spent $675,000 travelling to investigate drought relief. When asked why nothing was produced from the trip, the government pointed to SMS messages, ca..."

CorruptionEnvironmentTax

C0046 True

8.0

"Blamed renewable power's intermittent nature for electricity outages caused by storms and cars hitting poles. On that day in particular there were gen..."

ClimateEnvironment

C0047 Partially True

6.5

"Did not send any minister or representative to the opening ceremony of any solar farm, wind farm or large scale battery, in more than 8 years."

ClimateEnvironment

C0049 Partially True

6.0

"Criticised capitalist Mike Cannon-Brookes when he tried to transition AGL from coal to renewables, in the same month they claimed they'll solve climat..."

ClimateEconomyEnvironment

C0051 Partially True

5.5

"Asked the electricity grid regulator to increase the notice period for coal plant closures from 3.5 years to 5. That is, the government wants investor..."

ClimateEconomyEnvironment

C0061 Partially True

6.0

"Secretly pressured the United Nations to delete from their climate change report the claim that closing coal power plants is necessary to fight climat..."

ClimateCorruptionEnvironment +1 more

C0064 Partially True

6.0

"Handed free marketing opportunities to a private gas company by letting them take over some of Australia's stall at a global climate summit for world ..."

ClimateCorruptionEnvironment

C0065 True

8.0

"Refused to sign a pledge to reduce methane emissions which was signed by 100 other countries."

ClimateEnvironment

C0068 Partially True

7.0

"Ran an expensive marketing campaign promoting a target of net-zero emissions by 2050, but then voted against legislating a net-zero target for 2050. T..."

ClimateEnvironment

C0069 Partially True

6.0

"Approved 3 new coal mines with record speed, and rejected new solar and wind farms with record speed."

ClimateEnvironment

C0070 Partially True

6.0

"Refused to release modelling to support the claim that their climate policy can achieve the targets they say it will."

ClimateCorruptionEnvironment

C0071 True

7.0

"Moved the role of Minister for Science and Technology to be held part-time by the Minister for Defence."

ClimateEnvironmentScience

C0072 Partially True

6.0

"Proposed scrapping recovery plans for 200 endangered species, replacing them with documents that ministers are no longer legally bound to follow."

Environment

C0083 True

7.0

"Tabled law amendments which would result in charities losing their tax deductible status if they tweet in support of public protests, or display their..."

ClimateCyberDefamation +2 more

C0084 Partially True

6.0

"Spent $600 million building a new gas power plant after the private sector decided it made no commercial sense to do so."

ClimateEconomyEnvironment +1 more

C0085 Partially True

6.0

"Paid $2 billion to help keep private for-profit oil refineries open, which they claim will save consumers only 1 cent per litre when filling up their ..."

ClimateEconomyEnvironment +1 more

C0095 Partially True

7.0

"Spent $10 million per month maintaining an offshore oil rig that is not producing any oil, after private owners profited for many years for costs of o..."

ClimateCorruptionEnvironment +1 more

C0105 Partially True

5.5

"The federal environment minister is not responsible for climate change efforts and policy" (referring to Sussan Ley's statement in April 2021 that cli..."

ClimateEnvironment

C0106 Misleading

4.0

"Modified an infrastructure funding scheme to bypass state governments, to allow investment in fossil fuels without being blocked by the Northern Terri..."

ClimateEnvironmentTax

C0120 True

7.0

"Offered foreign gas companies $50 million to extract gas from the Northern Territory."

ClimateEnvironment

C0121 Partially True

6.5

"Offered for-profit gas companies $50M in free money to build gas plants in Victoria and Queensland. Coincidentally the main recipient is a Liberal par..."

ClimateCorruptionDonors +1 more

C0128 Partially True

7.0

"Bought water rights for 50 times more than many valuations, and double the price of the seller's valuation."

CorruptionEnvironmentTax

C0141 Partially True

6.0

"Hid a record-breaking number of expenses from the public in an annual budget, including cash handed to a private rail project, maintaining an abandone..."

ClimateCorruptionEnvironment

C0147 Partially True

5.0

"Introduced the Underwriting New Generation Investment Program, which is specifically designed to deliver new electricity generators whose business cas..."

ClimateEnvironmentTax

C0148 Partially True

6.0

"Tried to spend $3.3 million on a feasibility study grant for subsidising a new coal generator. The company who would build it have no relevant experie..."

ClimateEconomyEnvironment +1 more

C0163 Partially True

6.0

"Tried to use money allocated for renewable power on new fossil fuel generators. A parliamentary oversight committee found this unlawful, but that hasn..."

ClimateCorruptionEnvironment

C0164 Partially True

6.0

"Paid $200k to a former media advisor of the Nationals party, to take photos and videos of bushfire recovery, without an open tender process."

ClimateCorruptionEnvironment +1 more

C0165 Partially True

6.5

"Gave $10 million worth of bushfire recovery funds to a privately owned paper mill which was not impacted by the bushfire. The parent company pays an e..."

ClimateCorruptionEconomy +2 more

C0166 True

8.0

"Tried to redefine what 'investment' means in legislation to include things where you expect to lose money. This is to allow the government to hand cas..."

ClimateCorruptionEconomy +2 more

C0188 Partially True

6.5

"Set up the COVID-19 National Co-ordination Committee with no terms of reference, no register of conflicts of interest, and then stacked it with gas co..."

ClimateCorruptionCOVID +1 more

C0189 Partially True

6.0

"Blocked parliament from debating significant environmental protection repeals, rushing through the legislation without allowing anyone to discuss it f..."

CorruptionEnvironment

C0207 Partially True

5.5

"Repeatedly approved requests by BHP to increase their greenhouse emissions limits."

ClimateEnvironment

C0210 True

8.0

"Ceased payments to the United Nations climate change fund."

ClimateEnvironmentInternational

C0211 Partially True

6.0

"Rejected a request for increasing aerial firefighting funding in the months prior to one of the most lethal bushfire seasons in history. The governmen..."

ClimateEnvironment

C0212 Partially True

7.0

"Blamed an unusually bad bushfire season on unprecedented arson, when the evidence suggests most fires were started by lightening."

ClimateEnvironment

All environment Claims

"Passed Environment Protection Reform Bill, establishing National EPA (commencing 1 July 2026)"

"Paid 8 times more than the market rate to conserve water in the Murray Darling Basin (overpayment of $112 million)."

"Proposed new laws which will allow the government to block capitalists from planting lots of trees to fight climate change, despite saying they plan t..."

"Spent $450 million on carbon capture and storage projects (CCS), resulting in every attempted project being cancelled or late, with no carbon actually..."

"Burnt brown coal (the dirtiest kind of coal) and used the electricity to split water to make hydrogen, to export to Japan, then claimed this is green ..."

"Took children to court to argue that the environment minister is not required to consider the harm their decisions cause to young Australians via Clim..."

"Paid $300 million to landfill operators for carbon credits (ACCUs) to incentivise them to burn methane which they would have burnt anyway. This is in ..."

"Failed to achieve their own water efficiency targets for the Murray Darling off-farm efficiency program, achieving only 1% of what they said they woul..."

"Purchased 70,000 tonnes of coal to be shipped to the other side of the world to give to Ukraine. It would be cheaper and quicker to simply buy it from..."

"Chose not to publish a 5-yearly report about the official state of the environment for over 3 months, so that voters in the 2022 election won't know w..."

"Prevented the release of data relating to the effectiveness of carbon credit schemes to improve forest regeneration."

"Vetoed research grants for projects about climate activism and Chinese politics, thereby undermining the independence of the Australian Research Counc..."

"Approved projects which will destroy 25,000 hectares of koala habitat."

"Claimed that a corporate emissions baseline policy is a sneaky proposal by Labor, when actually it's their own policy that they already legislated."

"Paid hundreds of millions of dollars in carbon credits to landowners for growing trees which were already there."

"Spent $675,000 travelling to investigate drought relief. When asked why nothing was produced from the trip, the government pointed to SMS messages, ca..."

"Blamed renewable power's intermittent nature for electricity outages caused by storms and cars hitting poles. On that day in particular there were gen..."

"Did not send any minister or representative to the opening ceremony of any solar farm, wind farm or large scale battery, in more than 8 years."

"Criticised capitalist Mike Cannon-Brookes when he tried to transition AGL from coal to renewables, in the same month they claimed they'll solve climat..."

"Asked the electricity grid regulator to increase the notice period for coal plant closures from 3.5 years to 5. That is, the government wants investor..."

"Secretly pressured the United Nations to delete from their climate change report the claim that closing coal power plants is necessary to fight climat..."

"Handed free marketing opportunities to a private gas company by letting them take over some of Australia's stall at a global climate summit for world ..."

"Refused to sign a pledge to reduce methane emissions which was signed by 100 other countries."

"Ran an expensive marketing campaign promoting a target of net-zero emissions by 2050, but then voted against legislating a net-zero target for 2050. T..."

"Approved 3 new coal mines with record speed, and rejected new solar and wind farms with record speed."

"Refused to release modelling to support the claim that their climate policy can achieve the targets they say it will."

"Moved the role of Minister for Science and Technology to be held part-time by the Minister for Defence."

"Proposed scrapping recovery plans for 200 endangered species, replacing them with documents that ministers are no longer legally bound to follow."

"Tabled law amendments which would result in charities losing their tax deductible status if they tweet in support of public protests, or display their..."

"Spent $600 million building a new gas power plant after the private sector decided it made no commercial sense to do so."

"Paid $2 billion to help keep private for-profit oil refineries open, which they claim will save consumers only 1 cent per litre when filling up their ..."

"Spent $10 million per month maintaining an offshore oil rig that is not producing any oil, after private owners profited for many years for costs of o..."

"The federal environment minister is not responsible for climate change efforts and policy" (referring to Sussan Ley's statement in April 2021 that cli..."

"Modified an infrastructure funding scheme to bypass state governments, to allow investment in fossil fuels without being blocked by the Northern Terri..."

"Offered foreign gas companies $50 million to extract gas from the Northern Territory."

"Offered for-profit gas companies $50M in free money to build gas plants in Victoria and Queensland. Coincidentally the main recipient is a Liberal par..."

"Bought water rights for 50 times more than many valuations, and double the price of the seller's valuation."

"Hid a record-breaking number of expenses from the public in an annual budget, including cash handed to a private rail project, maintaining an abandone..."

"Introduced the Underwriting New Generation Investment Program, which is specifically designed to deliver new electricity generators whose business cas..."

"Tried to spend $3.3 million on a feasibility study grant for subsidising a new coal generator. The company who would build it have no relevant experie..."

"Tried to use money allocated for renewable power on new fossil fuel generators. A parliamentary oversight committee found this unlawful, but that hasn..."

"Paid $200k to a former media advisor of the Nationals party, to take photos and videos of bushfire recovery, without an open tender process."

"Gave $10 million worth of bushfire recovery funds to a privately owned paper mill which was not impacted by the bushfire. The parent company pays an e..."

"Tried to redefine what 'investment' means in legislation to include things where you expect to lose money. This is to allow the government to hand cas..."

"Set up the COVID-19 National Co-ordination Committee with no terms of reference, no register of conflicts of interest, and then stacked it with gas co..."

"Blocked parliament from debating significant environmental protection repeals, rushing through the legislation without allowing anyone to discuss it f..."

"Repeatedly approved requests by BHP to increase their greenhouse emissions limits."

"Ceased payments to the United Nations climate change fund."

"Rejected a request for increasing aerial firefighting funding in the months prior to one of the most lethal bushfire seasons in history. The governmen..."

"Blamed an unusually bad bushfire season on unprecedented arson, when the evidence suggests most fires were started by lightening."

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