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Pressure on Coalition to rise to states’ challenge to lift do-nothing NEG target
SYDNEY, Aug 7, 2018 – The Victorian and Queensland governments must continue to listen to the Australian people, and push for the ambitious emissions reduction targets the country needs if it is to bring down power prices and reduce pollution from dirty coal power.The ACT, Queensland and Victoria have called on Prime Minister Turnbull to…
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Over 75 percent of Victorians want ambitious renewable energy target to drive down electricity prices
MELBOURNE, Aug 6, 2018 – Seventy-seven percent of Victorians want Australia to embrace a high renewable energy target, ramping up the pressure on Premier Daniel Andrews to vote against the Turnbull government’s National Energy Guarantee (NEG).The results, from a Reachtel poll commissioned by Greenpeace Australia Pacific, serve as a timely warning to the Victorian leader,…
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More than 70 percent of Australians want ambitious renewable energy target to drive down electricity prices
SYDNEY, Aug 6, 2018 – Over two-thirds of Australians want the Federal Government to set a high renewable energy target to put downward pressure on power prices, according to a Reachtel poll commissioned by Greenpeace Australia Pacific.The result serves as a rebuke to Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull and Energy Minister Josh Frydenberg, who have been…
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Greenpeace response to Coles setting an August deadline for the availability of free plastic bags in their stores
Greenpeace campaigner Zoe Dean welcomes the move by Coles to begin charging customers 15c for their reusable plastic bags from late August after the supermarket giant yesterday declared they would offer free bags indefinitely.”This is a fantastic outcome and shows exactly what we said yesterday – that Coles had put too much stock in the…
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Greenpeace Australia Pacific FOIs secret modelling underpinning NEG that government refuses to make public
SYDNEY, July 31, 2018 – Greenpeace has filed Freedom of Information requests in a bid to see the economic modelling that Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull and Environment and Energy Minister Josh Frydenberg have used to justify the National Energy Guarantee (NEG), but that they have refused to release, despite calls from industry experts.Greenpeace has lodged…
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Coles will be punished for their plastic bag backflip
August 1, 2018: The decision by supermarket giant Coles to indefinitely offer free plastic bags to their customers will outrage their customers and makes a mockery of their stated commitment to reduce plastic waste. Coles today announced they would continue to give away their thicker “reusable” plastic bags for free instead of charging customers 15…
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NEG mechanism as bad as its do-nothing emissions target, states won’t be duped by Frydenberg’s two-stage approval scam
SYDNEY, July 30, 2018 – Josh Frydenberg’s blatantly political attempt to calm growing opposition to the National Energy Guarantee (NEG), by asking the states to first vote on the policy’s mechanism before a second meeting on the emissions reduction target is a ploy that changes nothing and should be rejected by the states.The compromise is…
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NEG still woefully inadequate policy that will cripple renewables, raise power prices and do nothing about climate change
SYDNEY, July 24, 2018 – It’s more of the same from the do-nothing NEG with the Energy Security Board’s latest policy update entrenching climate change inaction, the hobbling of the renewables industry and higher electricity prices.The EBS’s decisions document, released last night, also dives into the politics of the NEG, urging state premiers who believe…
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Turnbull’s NEG to raise electricity prices and stunt the growth of renewables: report
SYDNEY, July 20, 2018 – Malcolm Turnbull’s National Energy Guarantee (NEG) would raise electricity prices, do nothing to combat climate change and cripple the growing renewables industry, modelling by Reputex reveals.The report, commissioned by Greenpeace Australia Pacific, analyses the impact of the NEG on Australia’s carbon emissions and on National Electricity Market (NEM) wholesale prices…
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Greenpeace crowdfunds to air TV ads urging states to reject the do-nothing NEG
SYDNEY, July 19, 2018 – With Malcolm Turnbull intent on sneaking through a policy that will cripple the thriving renewable energy industry and lock in dirty coal, Greenpeace is urging state energy ministers to reject the National Energy Guarantee (NEG).Today Greenpeace Australia Pacific and GetUp! are asking voters to contribute to put to air a…
