The school strike for climate will take place outside WA Premier Roger Cook’s energy summit on Friday.Credit:Lauren Pilat
The peaceful strike is the WA iteration of the National Schools Strike 4 Climate and is the fifth year that Australian students have wagged school to demand governments end coal and gas projects and adopt more ambitious targets like net-zero emissions and 100 per cent public renewable energy by 2030.
Margaret River student and WA strike organiser Emma Heyink,17,said hundreds of protestors would walk from Woodside’s headquarters to the summit,to send the message that her generation wanted action on climate change that didn’t involve gas.
“We’d really like to make sure that we’re getting across the message that we won’t stand for the greenwashing and gaslighting that happens in conferences like this,” she said.
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“There’s a lot of politicians,you’ve got fossil fuel representatives ... these aren’t the people who have the best interests of the community or the future of people like me,yet they hold all the power to make the decisions.
As well as politicians,major WA gas producers including Woodside,Chevron and BP will feature at the CEDA-organised event,as well as gas lobby groups Australian Energy Producers and the Chamber of Minerals and Energy.
A breakout session at the event will specifically look at gas and the energy transition.