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An Inconvenient Strewth? 4 things you should know about the Palmer-Gore climate speech
Watching last night’s press conference with Clive Palmer and Al Gore on climate change was one of the more bizarre moments I’ve witnessed in Australian politics. Image: twitter.com/SBSNews We won’t know exactly what Clive’s announcements mean for a little while yet. Based on past experience, what he said last night might not be his view tomorrow –…
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Dawn of the Dead: Whitehaven Coal, the zombie mining company
Whitehaven Coal Company is kinda like a zombie extra from Dawn of the Dead. Every time we think it’s finally gone, it staggers to its feet – minus an arm – and comes lurching back into frame. On the 12th of June, when the Land & Environment Court was just about to hand down its decision on whether…
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10 things Australia’s big energy companies don’t want you to know
They might try to tell you they’re fighting for our clean energy future – but Origin Energy, EnergyAustralia and AGL are not as green as you think. Here are 10 things they’re trying to hide from you. 1. They’re neck deep in fossil fuels They might pretend to be green, but The Dirty Three –…
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Do energy company executives really hate solar panels this much?
This wasn’t what people on Sydney’s George Street were expecting to see on their morning commute. Three men, dressed as the CEOs of Origin Energy, AGL Energy, and EnergyAustralia, were surrounded by a crowd and TV cameras as they hauled a dozen solar panels into a dumpster while spectators booed them on. Seriously! Activists bring…
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What these soccer-loving environmental activists created is genius
When soccer fans in the town of Drenovci, Croatia lost access to electricity due to severe flooding, they faced a whole raft of problems. Not least of which was this: how to join the rest of the world in the 2014 World Cup festivities. Thankfully, a group of Greenpeace activists came up a bright solution…
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Don’t be a fossil fool: join the solar energy revolution!
Low emissions, low water consumption, no waste, 100% renewable and increasingly affordable… Interested? Here’s what you need to know to go solar. In the last decade, solar technology has gone from fringe to mainstream. According to the Clean Energy Council, over two million Australians have switched to solar – and are saving about half…
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How to halt a bulldozer army while overcoming a fear of heights
This might seem like an unlikely thing for someone with vertigo to sign up for. But, on Monday night, I volunteered to spend a night high in the canopy of critically-endangered Box Gums in the Leard Forest. It was a unique spot to witness the majesty of this place. I was suspended nine metres above…
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REPORT: The Dirty Three
Origin Energy, EnergyAustralia and AGL's attack on Australia's Renewable Energy Target
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Sydney rallies parliamentarians to save Leard Forest from Whitehaven Coal’s bulldozers
It was an inspiring, empowering example of what our movement stands for. Today, hundreds of Sydney-siders joined a snap rally outside of the offices of NSW Planning Minister Pru Goward and NSW Environment Minister Rob Stokes asking them to immediately halt bulldozers tearing down Leard Forest. We were there to deliver a 30,000-strong emergency petition…
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Greenpeace sends in the airforce to bear witness to Leard Forest mine destruction
Press release – 3 June, 2014Maules Creek, NSW: Today, two motorised para-gliders have taken to the sky above the Leard State Forest. The gliders are filming the devastation left in the wake of Whitehaven Coal’s bulldozing of critically endangered forest.The action occurred on the day of a mass snap rally in Sydney organised by a…
