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More than 70 percent of Australians want ambitious renewable energy target to drive down electricity prices
SYDNEY, Aug 6, 2018 – Over two-thirds of Australians want the Federal Government to set a high renewable energy target to put downward pressure on power prices, according to a Reachtel poll commissioned by Greenpeace Australia Pacific.The result serves as a rebuke to Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull and Energy Minister Josh Frydenberg, who have been…
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Greenpeace response to Coles setting an August deadline for the availability of free plastic bags in their stores
Greenpeace campaigner Zoe Dean welcomes the move by Coles to begin charging customers 15c for their reusable plastic bags from late August after the supermarket giant yesterday declared they would offer free bags indefinitely.”This is a fantastic outcome and shows exactly what we said yesterday – that Coles had put too much stock in the…
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Coles will be punished for their plastic bag backflip
August 1, 2018: The decision by supermarket giant Coles to indefinitely offer free plastic bags to their customers will outrage their customers and makes a mockery of their stated commitment to reduce plastic waste. Coles today announced they would continue to give away their thicker “reusable” plastic bags for free instead of charging customers 15…
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We interviewed singer Novo Amor about his latest music video
We chatted to Welsh singer Novo Amor about his latest music video, which highlights the problem of plastic in our oceans. An underwater diver drifts freely, gliding past majestic sea turtles, huge manta rays and schools of shimmering fish… and an enormous whale made from plastic waste? |||| Have you seen the incredibly moving music…
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The National Energy Guarantee does nothing, and it does it badly
Criticism of the National Energy Guarantee has rightly slammed its low target, but its design is even worse than we thought Steam towers at Bayswater Power Station, adjacent to Liddell. Liddell is a coal fired power station near Muswellbrook in New South Wales, Australia. It was opened in 1971 and is due to shut down…
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NEG mechanism as bad as its do-nothing emissions target, states won’t be duped by Frydenberg’s two-stage approval scam
SYDNEY, July 30, 2018 – Josh Frydenberg’s blatantly political attempt to calm growing opposition to the National Energy Guarantee (NEG), by asking the states to first vote on the policy’s mechanism before a second meeting on the emissions reduction target is a ploy that changes nothing and should be rejected by the states.The compromise is…
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Tackling plastic pollution at its source
Together let’s take on plastic pollution at its source: the corporations that produce it.
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NEG still woefully inadequate policy that will cripple renewables, raise power prices and do nothing about climate change
SYDNEY, July 24, 2018 – It’s more of the same from the do-nothing NEG with the Energy Security Board’s latest policy update entrenching climate change inaction, the hobbling of the renewables industry and higher electricity prices.The EBS’s decisions document, released last night, also dives into the politics of the NEG, urging state premiers who believe…
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Turnbull’s NEG to raise electricity prices and stunt the growth of renewables: report
SYDNEY, July 20, 2018 – Malcolm Turnbull’s National Energy Guarantee (NEG) would raise electricity prices, do nothing to combat climate change and cripple the growing renewables industry, modelling by Reputex reveals.The report, commissioned by Greenpeace Australia Pacific, analyses the impact of the NEG on Australia’s carbon emissions and on National Electricity Market (NEM) wholesale prices…
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Greenpeace crowdfunds to air TV ads urging states to reject the do-nothing NEG
SYDNEY, July 19, 2018 – With Malcolm Turnbull intent on sneaking through a policy that will cripple the thriving renewable energy industry and lock in dirty coal, Greenpeace is urging state energy ministers to reject the National Energy Guarantee (NEG).Today Greenpeace Australia Pacific and GetUp! are asking voters to contribute to put to air a…