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  • Air pollution from burning coal kills 800 people in Australia each year and makes thousands more ill

    25 August 2020

    SYDNEY, Aug 25 2020 - Air pollution from Australia’s ageing and increasingly unreliable coal-burning power stations is responsible for 800 premature deaths, 14,000 asthma symptoms among children and 850 cases of low birth weight in newborns each year, according to a ground-breaking report by Greenpeace.

  • Gasman Nev Power confirms Covid Commission pushed for taxpayers to waste money expanding fossil gas industry 

    11 August 2020

    SYDNEY, Aug 11 2020 - Strike Energy director and Chair of the Government’s National Covid-19 Commission (NCC) has told a Senate hearing that the body lobbied the Prime Minister to use public money to expand the fossil gas industry.

  • ‘A recipe for corruption’ Researcher warns of the risk gas-stacked Covid-19 Commission poses to Australia’s democracy 

    5 August 2020

    SYDNEY, Aug 5 2020 - A Melbourne University researcher has sounded the alarm on the Prime Minister’s National Covid-19 Commission (NCC), warning that handing power to a cabal of unelected business leaders could pose risks to Australian democracy that will endure well beyond the pandemic.

  • Greenpeace Response to AEMO’s Integrated System Report

    30 July 2020

    SYDNEY, Thursday, July 30 2020 - In response to the Australian Energy Market Operator’s Integrated System report, Greenpeace Australia Pacific Campaigner Elizabeth Sullivan said:

  • Rebranded covid commission retains bizarre push for taxpayers to foot the bill for expansion of dirty fossil gas industry

    29 July 2020

    SYDNEY, July 29 2020 - Despite a public relations exercise, the controversial National Covid-19 Commission (NCC) is still pushing its fossil fuel agenda, calling for a massive expansion of the gas industry with taxpayers slugged with the bill despite the fact the industry is already critically oversupplied.

  • Rebranded Covid commission still reeks of gas and conflicts of interest

    27 July 2020

    SYDNEY, July 27 2020 - The Federal Government’s attempted rebrand of the gas-stacked National Covid-19 Commission exacerbates the body’s lack of transparency and accountability and represents a missed opportunity for Australia to emerge strongly from the pandemic.

  • ‘Narrabri gas project could see truckloads of toxic brine produced every day, with waste dumped into creek’

    24 July 2020

    SYDNEY, July 24 2020 - Santos’s controversial Narrabri gas plans will produce a large aircraft hangar worth of toxic brine containing radionuclides over the life of the project, with some of the waste slated to be dumped in Bohena creek, which feeds into the Murray Darling Basin.

  • Narrabri gas recommendation misrepresents academic review

    22 July 2020

    SYDNEY, July 22 2020 - The academic upon whose research the New South Wales Government recommended the Narrabri Gas Project proceed, has stated that her social impact advice has been misconstrued by the Department of Planning Industry and Environment. 

  • Australia’s peak environment protection laws ‘not fit to address current or future environmental challenges’

    20 July 2020

    SYDNEY, July 20 2020 - A review of the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act has found the legislation is ineffective and unless changed will continue to pose serious threats to the nation, an interim report has found.

  • 8000MW NSW renewable energy zone to create thousands of jobs and power for 3.5 million homes

    10 July 2020

    SYDNEY, July 10 2020 - Greenpeace welcomes the NSW Government’s $79 million commitment to set up a renewable energy zone in New England, creating over 3,000 jobs and eventually providing enough power for more than 3 million homes.

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