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Greenpeace ramps up Sydney Uni divestment push
Press release – 19 November, 2014Thursday 20 November: Greenpeace is today launching a public advertising campaign calling on Sydney University to divest from Whitehaven Coal – as the controversial company’s share price dive-bombs.“We are ramping up our call for Sydney University to divest from environmental vandal, Whitehaven Coal,” said Greenpeace Climate Campaigner, Nikola Casule. “Right…
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Oversized Spanish tuna boats threatening Pacific food security
Press release – 12 November, 2014Tarawa, 13 November, 2014: Food security in Pacific countries like Kiribati could be under threat if oversized tuna vessels such as the Spanish owned Albatun Tres and Albacora Uno are allowed to continue fishing at current rates, Greenpeace said today.The warning follows today’s release of a new report naming the…
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Abbott’s industrial sabotage
Press release – 11 November, 2014Wednesday 12 November: Greenpeace is condemning the Abbott Government’s ideologically-driven attacks on business and the environment which have led to today’s collapse of negotiations on the Renewable Energy Target (RET).“By willfully undermining renewable energy in Australia, the Abbott Government is showing the lengths it will go to prop up its…
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Coal industry lies revealed by new report
Press release – 6 November, 2014Sydney 7th November, 2014. Greenpeace applauds the launch of The Australia Institute report, All Talk, No Action, The Coal Industry and Energy Poverty. The report reveals the facts behind the public relations strategy.In light of the urgency contained in this week’s IPCC Synthesis Report, the coal industry must end its…
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Direct Action: an invoice to future generations
Press release – 28 October, 2014Sydney 29 October, 2014. “Legislating the Direct Action plan is to climate policy what abolishing the criminal code is to law and order – a recipe for chaos,” according to Greenpeace campaigner, Nic Clyde.Greenpeace welcomes the retention of the Climate Change Authority and the Fraser-led review of the viability of international…
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New report reveals the cost of doing business without social licence
Press release – 27 October, 2014Sydney 28 October 2014. An historic alliance has gathered on the day of the Whitehaven Coal Company’s (WHC) AGM to launch a major new report detailing the extent to which this controversial coal company has forgone a social licence to operate and the impact this has had, and will continue…
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Greenpeace welcomes NSW Government push back on Whitehaven Coal Company
Press release – 23 October, 2014Sydney 23rd October, 2014. Greenpeace has praised the Department of Planning and Environment’s decision to restrict the clearing of the Leard State Forest by Whitehaven Coal Company (WHC) to between the 15th of February 2015 and 30th of April 2015. This decision won’t save the precious Leard State Forest, but…
