By Jo Nova
What looks smells and acts like One World Government?
The UN, which we fund for some reason, is telling us we can’t drill for gas on our land and are being very naughty. They’ve sent a Special Rapporteur, Astrid Puentes Riano, to join three cases in Federal Courts in an amicus curiae role. She is here to cast a spell and see if she gets lucky and scores some shake-down-money in reparations.
It was only a few months ago the International Court of Climate Justice (ICJ) declared that nice weather was a “human right”, thus supposedly allowing the whole world to sue everyone else, ad infinitum for bad weather.
The case was originally launched by Australian Conservation Foundation and another group called Friends of Australian Rock Art in the Federal Court challenging the Ministers decision to extend the Woodside gas project out to 2070. So the UN is sending a performance artist to tell us we are “in breach of international laws.” If she succeeds, it’s a foot in the door, a precedent for more.
UN rapporteur intervenes in Federal Court case over Woodside’s gas project
By Paul Garvey, The Australian
Her shock intervention comes just months after the UN’s International Court of Justice found that countries that did not take appropriate action to protect the climate could be breaching international law.
Amicus curiae allows a person or group to offer information or expertise on a case without becoming a formal party to the matter.
Elaine Johnson, the lawyer representing Friends of Australian Rock Art in the proceedings, revealed that the group had previously warned Senator Watt that approving the North West Shelf could put Australia at risk of breaching international laws.
“The night before this project was approved, our office wrote to the minister advising him that his proposed actions could constitute a breach of Australia’s international law obligations, after Vanuatu warned that approval of the project would represent an internationally wrongful act,” Ms Johnson said.
“It’s surprising that the Australian government appears to have taken no steps at all to respond to the recent International Court of Justice Advisory Opinion, which confirmed that continued fossil fuel production could expose countries like Australia to liability for transboundary climate harms. Business as usual is no longer an option that comes without serious national economic and social risks.”
And if we stop selling gas will other countries sue us because their people are hungry or cold?
As I said when the ICJ made it’s ‘historic ruling’ in July — it’s a toothless tiger that serious counties (including Australia) have ignored many times. But make no mistake, the Blob is knocking at our door in a game of bluff, and sooner or later it will get in — unless we shut it down first.
The country that has generated the most carbon dioxide, bar none, is the US, and it withdrew from compulsory jurisdiction from the International Court of Justice 40 years ago, and the ICJ can’t hear a case against the US unless the US consents. (That was Nicaragua v. United States of 1986). In 2005, the US just ignored the ICJ ruling that the US violated the Vienna Convention. (Even Australia withdrew from ICJ jurisdiction over maritime boundary disputes in 2002 — just before East Timor was about to sue it over the Timor Gap oil field.)
The number two country on the global emitters list, — that has historically burned the most coal on Earth — is China, but good luck getting them to pay. They will, however, offer a Belt and Road climate loan, paid back in harbors, airports and railway lines or just pro-China votes in the UN.
So who is this legislative theatre aimed at? The only suckers left — Europe, the UK, Australia, Canada and New Zealand.
It’s time to defund the UN
Nothing about what they do serves Australians, except for the few who score a job “after politics”.
There should be law about that…
Related posts on Lawfare:
- Highest World Blobocrat Court decrees Perfect Climate is a “human right” — funnels money to Friends, Lawyers and Bankers
- China caught funding eco-lawfare suits in the USA to sabotage American energy dominance.