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Greenpeace confronts reckless oil exploration
Greenpeace is sending two ships to the frontiers of the world’s oil problem. Greenpeace is sending two ships to the frontiers of the world’s oil problem. The mission of the Esperanza is clear: to confront the kind of reckless oil exploration that keeps wrecking our environment. In the Gulf of Mexico the Arctic Sunrise will…
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Hiroshima remembered – Greenpeace revisits the tragic legacy of nuclear testing
On August 6, 1945, the city of Hiroshima was destroyed by a single atomic bomb. Upon impact, thousands of people were instantly carbonised in a blast a thousand times hotter than the sun’s surface. Around 80,000 died instantly, while the final toll climbed to 250,000. On August 9, Nagasaki suffered a comparable fate. The 65th…
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Are Fish and Chips a Greater Threat to Whales than Harpoons?
One of our campaigners in New Zealand, Karli Thomas, sent me a link to a recent program from 60 minutes New Zealand. It contains some disturbing information. We know that whales face many threats beyond whaling including ship strikes, entanglement in fishing nets and the impacts of climate change. But the program contains evidence…
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Will notorious forest destroyer Sinar Mas come clean?
The short answer: not likely. In fact, not only are they not likely to come ‘clean’, but we have just released fresh evidence that Sinar Mas’ notorious forest destroying practices continue unabated and in direct violation of the company’s own environmental commitments on protecting forests and peatlands. Sinar Mas is Indonesia’s largest palm oil, and pulp…
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“We discovered fishermen neck-deep in oil”
On Friday the 16th of July, two pipelines and an oil tank exploded in Dalian Liaoning province in China, spilling oil into the Bohai Gulf. An estimated 11,000 barrels of crude leaked into the ocean, creating an oil slick that has expanded about 100 square kilometers. A fire raged for 15 hours before it was…
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Deciding the fate of the world’s tuna
Pacific tuna campaigner Duncan Williams answers some questions about the international tuna meeting he’s attending in Brisbane. You’ve come all the way from Fiji for this international meeting on tuna. What’s the meeting about and why is it so important? Kobe II is the only time that all the tuna commissions from around the world…
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Will Julia learn from failed leaders on climate?
Failure to act on climate change claimed the political scalp of Kevin Rudd and John Howard before him. How Julia Gillard responds to the issue will play a crucial role in the success of her leadership. Regardless of what Tony Abbott may hope, climate change isn’t going away as a public issue. It will continue…
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Why are taxpayers paying for coal trains?
I had a cursory glance through the Queensland and New South Wales State budgets yesterday to see if there was anything interesting going on in terms of climate change. There wasn’t. New South Wales allocated around $21Million to leverage private sector investment for 6 new large scale renewable projects – but it hardly makes up for…
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Get the low-down on illegal timber
The ABC’s agenda-setting radio documentary program Background Briefing have just aired a great story about illegal timber imports in Australia. Find out all about the issue by downloading the story and listen to it on the way into work or school. Or listen on the website now. Check it out here: http://www.abc.net.au/rn/backgroundbriefing/stories/2010/2908767.htm Don’t forget that…
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How far would you go to help save the whales?
International human rights experts Dirk Voorhoof and Serge Gutwirth have co-authored a thought provoking article about the right to protest under threat. Check it out on the ABC Unleashed site here: http://www.abc.net.au/unleashed/stories/s2911068.htm Professor Dirk Voorhoof recently provided testimony in the case again the Tokyo Two, our activists who risked jail time for exposing the fraud that…
