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Anglo Coal abandons Reef destroying project. Time for Jeff Seeney to do the same.
Press release – 6 March, 2014Brisbane, Friday 7 March, 2014: With yet another company walking away from the destructive AP-X development at Abbot Point, Greenpeace is calling on Deputy Premier Jeff Seeney to cancel the project in order to safeguard the health of the Great Barrier Reef.The announcement from Anglo Coal means two of the…
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Indian coal giant Adani flouts Australian environment laws, risks endangered finch
Press release – 4 March, 2014Federal Environment Minister Greg Hunt should use his powers to immediately order an investigation into the potential impacts of exploration activities by Indian coal giant Adani on an endangered Australian finch at the site of a proposed Carmichael coal mine in Queensland’s Galilee Basin, says Greenpeace..“Greenpeace calls for Galilee Basin…
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Court challenge to Great Barrier Reef dredge dumping permit
Press release – 26 February, 2014Brisbane, Thursday 27 February 2013: A challenge has been lodged in the Australian Administrative Appeals Tribunal against the granting of a sea-dumping permit for the dredging operation to expand the Abbot Point coal port at Abbot Point, beside the Great Barrier Reef.“This challenge shows the community will not stand by…
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Another company withdraws from Australia’s Abbot Point coal port expansion: Indian coal cos Adani and GVK last men standing
Press release – 25 February, 2014Brisbane, Australia 26 February 2014. One of the world’s largest infrastructure developers, Lend Lease has announced that it has pulled out of the highly contentious AP-X coal terminal at Abbot Point in Queensland, alongside Australia’s World Heritage Listed Great Barrier Reef.This follows BHP Billiton’s decision in November last year to…
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Losing Nemo
Written by Nicole Ghio, Sierra Club International Climate Program After his stop in Los Angeles, everyone’s favorite cartoon clownfish, Nemo, continued his tour of the U.S., stepping out in sub-freezing temperatures in Washington, D.C. to ask Americans to help him save his home, the Great Barrier Reef. What’s Nemo doing touring the U.S.? Is…
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No place for dodgy coal companies in Australia
Press release – 14 November, 2013Brisbane, 15 November 2013: Greenpeace is calling on Environment Minister Greg Hunt to rule out allowing Adani to develop its T0 coal terminal in the sensitive Great Barrier Reef and their mega coal mine in the Galilee Basin after new revelations that the company is being investigated by Hunt’s department…
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Minister receives petitions on Abbot Point and the Reef
Press release – 16 July, 2013Rockhampton, 17 July 2013: Earlier today, Greenpeace climate campaigner, Louise Mathiesson, presented Environment & Climate Change Minister, Mark Butler, with a petition containing the names of 88,297 people who have signed Greenpeace’s petitions calling on the Australian Government to protect the Great Barrier Reef from the threats posed by coal…
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The coal industry’s Great Illusionist Brief
Here’s a question for you: how much of a masterpiece can you remove, before it loses its value and beauty for which it is recognised? That’s the question the Australian government is wrestling with as the coal industry makes greater and greater inroads into the masterpiece that is the Great Barrier Reef. This blog first…
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Macken Sense: And the winner is….
Last week produced two powerful stories that define the perimeters surrounding the increasingly contested space in Australia’s economic and energy future. Just as history is written by the victors, there’s little doubt the future is in part created by the stories that prevail today – but which one will win the day? The first…
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Clive Palmer the big winner from Abbot Point manoeuvres
Press release – 21 May, 2012Sydney. Tuesday 22nd May 2012: Greenpeace is calling on the Newman Government in Queensland to clarify whether scrapping the Abbot Point Multi-Cargo Facility (MCF) was influenced by LNP donor Clive Palmer.“Scrapping the MCF looks suspiciously like a move to facilitate Clive Palmer’s development plans at Abbot Point, whilst avoiding Federal…