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Fracking blackmail will take us down a time tunnel to nowhere land
Fracking is a loaded word. When it is spoken people see images of lit cigarette lighters next to water taps with pops of flame jumping from the flowing liquid. Burning rivers, water contamination and mystery illnesses. It’s an unpopular word, an ugly word. Only fitting for an ugly, destructive practice. Originally published on The…
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Fracking blackmail shows the Federal Government are acting like an enforcer for the fossil fuel industry
Press release – 28 June, 2017June 29, 2017: The Federal government’s threat to cut GST to state governments unless they allow unconventional gas exploration is a deplorable attempt at blackmail for the benefit of giant fossil fuel companies.Treasurer Scott Morrison has warned state and territory governments that they could face cuts to the amount of…
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Apple, Samsung products among least repairable in new Greenpeace assessment of tech brands
San Francisco, 27 June 2017 – Fairphone, Dell and HP are the only companies that make spare parts and repair manuals available to the public, while products from brands such as Apple, Samsung and Microsoft are among the least easy to repair and upgrade, according to Greenpeace’s latest IT product guide. Greenpeace East Asia, in…
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NAIF are holding taxpayers’ money to ransom behind a wall of secrecy
Press release – 27 June, 2017June 28, 2017: The continued refusal of the Northern Australia Infrastructure Facility (NAIF) to respond to any and all freedom of information requests represents a failure to the Australian taxpayer and is impermissible under law.More than 1,500 Greenpeace supporters used an online tool created to assist them in submitting a…
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Is your wardrobe a climate disaster?
We’re not the fashion police you remember from TV. We won’t bust you for wearing too many patterns at once and we certainly won’t judge you for wearing black and blue at the same time. Illustration depicting models wearing polyester clothes superimposed over textile production facilities. As part of the campaign to reduce overconsumption, the Detox…
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Climate change backyard
Cairns. Type it into Google, and the first sentence celebrates it as ‘The Gateway to the Great Barrier Reef.’ For me, it’s a lot of other things as well. My name is Natalie, and I grew up in Cairns, Far North Queensland. I’m a supporter of Greenpeace Australia Pacific, and I am deeply disturbed by the…
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Black lung outbreak a reminder of ransom coal has always taken from workers and the community
In severe cases someone with black lung suffocates, unable to draw breath into organs left looking like a blackened sponge. It is a terrible disease, long thought eradicated in this country. But now it’s back [1]. Originally published on HuffPost In severe cases someone with black lung suffocates, unable to draw breath into organs…
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BLACK LUNG OUTBREAK A REMINDER OF RANSOM COAL HAS ALWAYS TAKEN FROM WORKERS AND THE COMMUNITY
In severe cases someone with black lung suffocates, unable to draw breath into organs left looking like a blackened sponge.It is a terrible disease, long thought eradicated in this country. But now it’s back [1]. Originally published on HuffPo It is a reminder that the coal industry has always demanded a human price in exchange for the…
