Fossil Fuels

  • This treaty would ban nuclear weapons. But will the world take it?

    31 March 2017

    “I’m here at the U.N. asking for an abolition of nuclear weapons,” said Toshiki Fujimori, a survivor of the Hiroshima atomic bombing, to diplomats from more than 120 countries gathered at the UN general assembly on 27 March. “Nobody in any country deserves seeing the same hell again.”

  • Switching off Hazelwood

    30 March 2017

    The Turnbull Government must stop pumping public money into the dying coal industry and start planning for safe and just transitions for Australian communities.

  • I found coal washed up on a beach on the Great Barrier Reef coast

    15 March 2017

    It was a Sunday morning in July, 2015, that I got a chance to board the Rainbow Warrior as a member and go on a guided tour of the vessel. When I was on the rubber dinghy on the way out to the boat I remember thinking, “I hope there is some type of an environmental emergency that the ship, the Rainbow Warrior would have to rush off to, with me still on board.”

  • Hey CommBank, we’re here. Please stop funding dirty coal.  

    14 March 2017

    Early this morning I joined a group of amazing volunteers who headed to the CommBank headquarters in Sydney with a message for the bank: stop funding new coal projects. You can speak up too by signing the petition to the CEO Ian Narev here.

  • Dirty Energy's Tax Rort

    13 February 2017

    How do you know when a tax regime isn't working? When industry demands that it be kept as is! Major oil and gas producers have called on the government to resist demands to tighten up Australia's primary tax on oil and gas, the Petroleum Resource Rent Tax (PRRT). Greenpeace Australia Pacific and the Tax Justice Network have argued that it is time to end the industry's free ride.

  • Frosty the Snowman’s fossil fetish

    7 December 2016

    What a children’s song teaches us about coal, climate change and the dangers of greed; and why Turnbull should put our billion dollars back into aid, not subsidies.