Exclusive: Election-eve ban aims to cut contamination from coal and oil spills to help struggling reefThe Queensland Labor government has banned the loading of coal ships at sea in the Great Barrier Reef marine park, following through on its 2015 election promise. “I am absolutely thrilled the government have followed through on this crucial ban,” Zethoven told the Guardian. They said Australia was not moving fast to meet some 2018 run-off reduction targets, and was not recording a rising source of run-off pollution from land clearing, which has recently surged. AMCS called on the LNP to “put politics aside and put the reef first” by backing Labor’s tougher tree clearing laws. “64,000 jobs depend on a healthy Great Barrier Reef,” she said.

Source: The Guardian October 29, 2017 00:11 UTC