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Abbott’s industrial sabotage
Press release – 11 November, 2014Wednesday 12 November: Greenpeace is condemning the Abbott Government’s ideologically-driven attacks on business and the environment which have led to today’s collapse of negotiations on the Renewable Energy Target (RET).“By willfully undermining renewable energy in Australia, the Abbott Government is showing the lengths it will go to prop up its…
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Coal industry lies revealed by new report
Press release – 6 November, 2014Sydney 7th November, 2014. Greenpeace applauds the launch of The Australia Institute report, All Talk, No Action, The Coal Industry and Energy Poverty. The report reveals the facts behind the public relations strategy.In light of the urgency contained in this week’s IPCC Synthesis Report, the coal industry must end its…
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Direct Action: an invoice to future generations
Press release – 28 October, 2014Sydney 29 October, 2014. “Legislating the Direct Action plan is to climate policy what abolishing the criminal code is to law and order – a recipe for chaos,” according to Greenpeace campaigner, Nic Clyde.Greenpeace welcomes the retention of the Climate Change Authority and the Fraser-led review of the viability of international…
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New report reveals the cost of doing business without social licence
Press release – 27 October, 2014Sydney 28 October 2014. An historic alliance has gathered on the day of the Whitehaven Coal Company’s (WHC) AGM to launch a major new report detailing the extent to which this controversial coal company has forgone a social licence to operate and the impact this has had, and will continue…
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Greenpeace welcomes NSW Government push back on Whitehaven Coal Company
Press release – 23 October, 2014Sydney 23rd October, 2014. Greenpeace has praised the Department of Planning and Environment’s decision to restrict the clearing of the Leard State Forest by Whitehaven Coal Company (WHC) to between the 15th of February 2015 and 30th of April 2015. This decision won’t save the precious Leard State Forest, but…
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LEGO ends 50 year link with Shell, after one million people respond to Save the Arctic campaign
Press release – 10 October, 2014Friday 10 october, 2014: Following a Greenpeace campaign, LEGO published a statement [1] this morning committing to ‘not renew the co-promotion contract with Shell’. This decision comes a month after Shell submitted plans to the US administration showing it’s once again gearing up to drill in the melting Arctic next…
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Greenpeace builds coal mine at Sydney Uni: slams Whitehaven investment
Press release – 17 September, 2014Sydney, Thursday 18 September 2014: University of Sydney students were surprised to find their campus was ‘closed for coal mining’ this morning when Greenpeace activists disguised as Whitehaven Coal workers fenced off the central university boulevard and started construction of a new coal mine (high res photos now available).“We’re building…
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Leard Alliance call for investigation into safety at Whitehaven’s Maules Creek Mine
Press release – 16 September, 2014MAULES CREEK/Sydney, 17 September 2014 – The Leard Forest Alliance and activists at the Leard Blockade camp have called for an immediate police investigation into alleged interference with mine fuses at the Maules Creek Coal Mine.The Alliance has no knowledge of any of the events alleged by Whitehaven Coal and…
