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Environmental scientist and top model calls for end to rising tide of deadly plastic waste
Press release – 8 July, 2013Sydney, 9 July, 2013: Environmental scientist and international top model Laura Wells is featured in a new billboard campaign by Greenpeace as part of its push for a national Cash for Containers Scheme to reduce plastic rubbish which is killing marine wildlife.The billboard image shows Ms Wells lying on a…
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Greenpeace welcomes NSW ‘Cash for Containers’ support
Press release – 25 June, 2013Sydney, Wednesday 26 June: Plastic waste would be greatly reduced under a proposed national Cash for Containers plan which was supported today by NSW Environment Minister Robyn Parker.Greenpeace welcomed the Minister’s support for the scheme – which would provide funds for local community groups who collect beverage containers. It also…
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Revealed: 91 new coal projects Australia can’t afford
Press release – 23 June, 2013Burning all fossil fuel reserves would lead to unprecedented changes in climate so severe that they will challenge the existence of our society as we know it today. (Climate Commission, The Critical Decade 2013)New analysis has revealed that 91 new coal mining projects are planned for New South Wales and…
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New poll: Australians overwhelmingly back 10 cent refunds on bottles and cans
Press release – 20 June, 2013Friday 21 June, 2013: A new poll has revealed that 84% of people living in NSW, Victoria and Queensland support the introduction of a 10c container deposits scheme (CDS).The Newspoll was commissioned by Greenpeace and the Boomerang Alliance who declared the level of support had created an unstoppable momentum that…
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Australian Coal Association report a sad swan song: Greenpeace
Press release – 19 June, 201320 June 2013: Today’s Australian Coal Association report reflects an industry trying to maintain its profits and relevancy as it faces well-founded fears that it has a limited future, says Greenpeace Australia.“The Stone Age didn’t end because we ran out of stone – it ended because we came up with…
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New research means Burke must refuse Reef dredging permit
Press release – 28 May, 2013Under questioning during Senate Estimates in Canberra yesterday, the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority (GBRMPA) revealed that the impacts of seabed dredging for coal port developments along the Great Barrier Reef coast could be far worse than previously understood.“This new information means Environment Minister Tony Burke must knock-back the…
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Choking it. How free is free-to-air TV?
Press release – 16 May, 2013Sydney, Friday 17 May 2013: Channel 7 and SBS have followed Channel 9’s lead and banned a controversial Greenpeace recycling advert.http://youtu.be/Q7Uxaw6YoRw Despite clearance and classification by Free TV- the industry regulatory body – a Channel 7 representative called the ad ‘inappropriate’ before issuing the ban order. In just over a…
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Pacific tuna boats struggle for survival.
Press release – 12 May, 2013Honiara, May 13, 2013 – Local tuna boat operators targeting albacore in the South Pacific are under threat of being pushed out of operation altogether due to the steady growth in numbers of subsidized foreign fishing vessels. (i)According to a recent report by the Forum Fisheries Agency (ii), certain foreign…
