Fossil Fuels

It was the people vs oil, and we: the people, just won. Having BP rule out drilling in the Bight is a momentous win that thousands of people like you and dozens of communities made possible. Thank you all for standing up for the Bight!

This week the world took a big step forward in the fight against dangerous global warming. The Paris Agreement on climate change - the first universal, legally binding, agreement to cut carbon emissions - was voted into law by enough nations to come into force.

Pressure. Alert. Pressure. Alert. 'Deepwater Horizon', which opens in Australian cinemas on 6 October, is all about pressure.

Let's face it. BP is going to hate this... With Hollywood blockbuster Deepwater Horizon set to hit Australian cinemas next week, we've produced a trailer for the truth.

This is an article written by Andrew Hopkins, Emeritus Professor of Sociology, Australian National University, first published in The Conversation.

Monday afternoon the text came through: the Federal Court had upheld the Abbott Government’s environmental approval for the massive Carmichael mine. The court challenge, brought by our friends at the Australian Conservation Foundation, was defeated.

In case you haven’t heard, power prices had a brief but sizeable jump in South Australia over the last few weeks.

This year the Great Barrier Reef experienced its worst bleaching event ever and the Australian public didn’t let the Reef down. The public said loud and clear they support coral rather than coal. The Australian public know the fossil fuel era is over.

The Great Barrier Reef is at the front and centre of the 2016 Federal Election.

You have to hand it to Adani Australia chief executive Jeyakumar Janakaraj. Despite years-long delays on Adani’s Queensland Carmichael coal mine – a project mired in court challenges and no realistic prospect of obtaining the financing it needs to proceed – Mr Janakaraj retains a cheerful disposition.