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Greenpeace ship busts illegal tuna fishing operation in Pacific high seas, underlining urgent need for enforcement

Press release – 9 September, 2015Port Moresby, September 10, 2015 – As Pacific Islands Forum leaders consider a 10-year road map for a sustainable fisheries industry, the Greenpeace ship Rainbow Warrior has uncovered a pirate fishing operation near Papua New Guinea’s waters with 75 kilograms of illegally caught shark fins — underlining the scale of…

Greenpeace Australia Pacific

September 8, 2015

IPA in the running for prize for role in destroying Australia’s coal price

Press release – 7 September, 2015Sydney, Sept 4 2015 — Greenpeace Australia Pacific today ridiculed the notion that the Institute of Public Affairs (IPA) is in the running to win an international prize for its role in repealing the carbon tax, and called for it to donate the prize money to a charity fighting climate…

Greenpeace Australia Pacific

September 6, 2015

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Australia’s isolationist climate change stance failing Pacific neighbours

Press release – 7 September, 2015Port Moresby, 8 September 2015: The Abbott government is failing its Pacific neighbours and embarrassing itself internationally over its fossil fuel-driven, isolationist stance on climate change, the CEO of Greenpeace Australia Pacific, David Ritter, said today.Pacific leaders yesterday published the Suva Declaration containing a call for a global moratorium on…

Greenpeace Australia Pacific

September 6, 2015

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Governments prove they can’t be trusted with environment

Press release – 19 August, 2015Sydney, 20 August, 2015: For immediate release The Federal and Queensland governments’ decision to push ahead with dredging the sea floor in the Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area for a coal port expansion at Abbot Point illustrates why they can’t be trusted with the environment or environment laws.The environmental…

Greenpeace Australia Pacific

August 18, 2015

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Tax dodging fossil fuel industry has too much power over Abbott government

Press release – 16 August, 2015Sydney, 17 August 2015: Greenpeace have today said the Abbott government needs to stop trying to silence environment groups while mining companies are permitted to get away with tax minimisation.Revelations aired on Channel Seven Sunday Night demonstrate that fossil fuel mining companies are among those flouting the tax laws and…

Greenpeace Australia Pacific

August 15, 2015

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BREAKING – Major international bank ditches giant coal mine threatening Great Barrier Reef

Press release – 10 August, 2015A major UK bank has announced today it is pulling out of one of the world’s most controversial coal developments following an international campaign by Greenpeace and other organisations.UK-based international bank Standard Chartered has become the second financial institution in just a few days to walk away from the proposed…

Greenpeace Australia Pacific

August 9, 2015

Australians not fooled by abysmal emissions target

Press release – 10 August, 2015The Abbott government’s abysmal post-2020 greenhouse emissions reduction target is a blow to ordinary Australians, and shows how national policy has become tainted by fossil fuel industry interests, Greenpeace Australia Pacific said today."It is too little too late from the Abbott Government," said Nikola Casule, climate and energy campaigner at…

Greenpeace Australia Pacific

August 9, 2015

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Carmichael, the ‘unbankable mine’ loses its only Australian bank

Press release – 5 August, 2015Sydney, August 5, 2015 – The Commonwealth Bank of Australia’s decision to walk away from the proposed Carmichael mega coal mine in Queensland is the right choice, environmentally and financially, Greenpeace said today.Australia’s biggest bank has abandoned the Adani coal mine project in the Galilee basin, as reported in Fairfax…

Greenpeace Australia Pacific

August 4, 2015

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Greg Hunt, do the right thing and ditch Carmichael

Press release – 4 August, 2015Sydney, 5 August, 2015 – Environment Minister Greg Hunt should seize a landmark opportunity to permanently ditch plans for the Carmichael mine in Queensland after the Federal Court overturned the mine’s approval today, Greenpeace Australia Pacific said.“With the court overturning Carmichael’s consent, Mr. Hunt has a second chance to do…

Greenpeace Australia Pacific

August 3, 2015

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Adani’s Carmichael project flailing

Press release – 2 August, 2015August 3, 2015: Media reports that Indian company Adani has stood down the majority of its workers in Queensland is yet another clear sign the Carmichael coal mine project is going nowhere, Greenpeace said today.Fairfax media has reported that Adani has begun sacking about 90 engineers, safety officers and other…

Greenpeace Australia Pacific

August 1, 2015

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