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How to Save the Great Barrier Reef
If you were the Australian government, and it was your responsibility to save the Great Barrier Reef, what would you do? This year the Reef experienced its second major bleaching event in two years. A. Pump cold water at it B. Put umbrellas over it C. Turn the clouds above it into giant mirrors D.…
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5 things you can do right now to stop CommBank funding coal
Heard about the Commonwealth Bank funding more fossil fuels in 2016 than any of Australia’s big banks? Feeling outraged that CommBank is propping up the dying coal industry that is polluting our planet and destroying irreplaceable wonders like the Great Barrier Reef? Heard about the Commonwealth Bank funding more fossil fuels in 2016 than any…
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Greenpeace’s Head of Pacific Net slams Australia for selling out its Pacific neighbours
Press release – 12 April, 2017“Australia – you are either with the coal industry, or with the Pacific”, said Greenpeace’s Head of Pacific Net Matisse Walkden-Brown in response to this week’s lobby trip by Australian Prime Minister, Malcolm Turnbull, to meet the CEO of the company behind the proposed Carmichael megamine, Mr Gautam Adani."This week,…
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Australia’s politicians have betrayed the Great Barrier Reef and only the people can save it
Once upon a time, in the distant 60s and 70s, the Great Barrier Reef faced imminent destruction. Tenement applications for drilling and mining covered vast swathes of the reef, with both government and industry enthusiastically backing the plans for mass exploitation. Aerial view showing lagoon detail. Wistari Reef, Southern Great Barrier Reef, Queensland, Australia. In…
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This treaty would ban nuclear weapons. But will the world take it?
“I’m here at the U.N. asking for an abolition of nuclear weapons,” said Toshiki Fujimori, a survivor of the Hiroshima atomic bombing, to diplomats from more than 120 countries gathered at the UN general assembly on 27 March. “Nobody in any country deserves seeing the same hell again.” |Greenpeace volunteers blockade the trident nuclear submarine…
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Switching off Hazelwood
The Turnbull Government must stop pumping public money into the dying coal industry and start planning for safe and just transitions for Australian communities. The closure of the Hazelwood coal-fired power station in the Latrobe Valley this week is a further indication that Australia’s transition away from polluting coal is well underway – whether politicians…
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Hazelwood closure highlights the need for federal planning for transition away from coal
Press release – 29 March, 2017TUESDAY March 28, 2017: The Federal Government must plan for a safe and fair transition for Australian communities to renewable energy rather than funnel public money into the dying coal industry.The Hazelwood mine fire [in 2014] and Port Augusta’s recent fly ash crisis both highlight the serious threat coal poses…
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Today community activists dropped a huge banner outside CommBank, and it was awesome
Early this morning an amazing group of volunteers installed a huge banner outside the Commonwealth Bank’s headquarters in Sydney with a message the bank can’t ignore: it’s time to break free from coal! Some filed into the bank asking CommBank why they continue to bankroll fossil fuels when they claim to take climate change seriously. Others talked to hundreds…
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Welcome to Port Augusta’s Independent Air Monitoring Page
Welcome to Port Augusta’s independent air monitoring page – run by the community, for the community. Here you will find daily updates on the air quality in the town of Port Augusta. This device is continuously measuring the PM10 level in the air – these are very fine particles known to cause respiratory problems. The…