Get ready for it: the New South Wales (NSW) Government is set to massively expand the state’s coal power industry. In fact, it’s proposing the biggest expansion for 30 years. Not only is it planning to refurbish and expand two existing polluting dinosaurs (Munmorah and Eraring pwer stations in the Hunter region), it is going […]
We received another reminder today of the passion, enthusiasm and spirit that we will all need to overcome political barriers to change, as separate community demonstrations in Victoria and Queensland protested the madness and immorality that is export coal.
In Melbourne, several hundred people put off their lunch break to converge at Victorian Parliament House, home […]
What are you doing on Saturday? Fancy a Samba through the city? Or a sailing trip on a tall ship around Sydney Harbour? Going to the beach to be part of a human sign? These are just a handful of the 4500+ events taking place this Saturday around the world to mark the 350.org day […]
After spending nearly 36 hours hanging like fruitbats, the four Greenpeace activists are preparing to come down from the massive coal loader at Hay Point. The Esperanza has joined the blockade and is moored a stones throw away, with three police boats between it and the wharf.
We’re hearing reports from the Pacific Islands Forum that […]
How far would you go for what’s right? Would you risk arrest? How high you would climb to save a planet?
In 2007, six volunteer activists scaled a 220-metre chimney at a UK coal power station to protest against government plans to build new coal plants. If the action wasn’t breathtaking enough (vertigo sufferers be warned), […]
We’ve just got in the first batch of photos from this morning’s blockade of Hazelwood Power Station by Greenpeace activists. Seven of our activists shut down a massive coal digger at the power station in Victoria’s La Trobe Valley. Hazelwood is the most polluting power station in the developed world. For every hour these massive […]
Seven Greenpeace activists have occupied one of the massive coal excavators at the Hazelwood Power station in Victoria’s Latrobe Valley. Hazelwood is a polluting dinosaur built with 1950s technology . It is the dirtiest power station in the developed world and was supposed to be closed this year.
If we are going to have any hope […]