Environment Minister ordered Adani meeting the day colleagues lobbied for approval

Environment Minister Melissa Price ordered a sudden meeting between scientists and her department over the Adani mine the day her Queensland colleagues demanded the government progress a critical federal approval, it has emerged.

Federal Environment Minister Melissa Price was under
pressure to sign off on the Adani project before the election.

The Department of the Environment and Energy has confirmed that Ms Price, rather than bureaucrats, requested controversial meetings between senior department staff and two scientific agencies, CSIRO and Geoscience Australia, to discuss changes to Adani's contentious groundwater management plan.

Read the story from The Age by Nicole Hasham - “Environment Minister ordered Adani meeting the day colleagues lobbied for approval.”

'For the Pacific it's always about cash': Environment Minister in diplomatic incident over climate change

Environment Minister Melissa Price has been accused of offending a key Pacific leader by declaring the region was “always” seeking cash from Australia, in a disputed remark that has triggered a new storm over government policy on climate change.

Former Kiribati president Anote Tong, who attended
Question Time on Wednesday, is in Australia to
talk about the impacts of climate change on the Pacific.CREDIT:

Ms Price is said to have told former Kiribati president Anote Tong, a nominee for the Nobel Peace Prize, that she had her “chequebook” ready because it was “always about the cash” when Pacific Island leaders came to Australia.

Read the story by David Crowe from The Sydney Morning Herald - “'For the Pacific it's always about cash': Environment Minister in diplomatic incident over climate change.”