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5000 visitors to the Esperanza have the power to create change
Another Saturday, another balmy, sunny open boat day in far North Queensland. This week we are in Townsville and with the 400 people who visited the ship today, the total number of people who’ve been on board since we began in Sydney 5 weeks ago climbed to over 5000. That’s over 5000 people who have…
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Greenpeace activists blockade Eraring Power Station
Before dawn today 27 Greenpeace activists walked into Eraring Power Plant in the Hunter Valley to stop work on the coal-fired power station and halt its greenhouse gas pollution. Why would ordinary people want to leave themselves open to arrest and possible conviction? For most activists the reason is a passion for their cause and…
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The Esperanza arrives at the 'coalface' of climate change
Majestic humpback whales escorted the Esperanza as she sailed through the Sydney Harbour heads this morning, heading up the eastern seaboard to spread the message that it’s time for clean, renewable energy to be powering Australia. With 33 crew on board, from the captain to campaigners, deckhands and office volunteers, we are an excited and…
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Renewable Solutions Sidelined Whilst Dirty Coal Is Bankrolled In Budget
From Canberra, Greenpeace head of campaigns Stephen Campbell sends this statement: “We are in the midst of an extreme climate crisis and the Rudd Government’s first budget was an opportunity to show voters that they truly means business on climate change. “Instead they have let Australia down by not delivering the climate solutions that are…
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Clean Energy Locked Out Of 2020 Summit
So the political Oscars that was the 2020 summit has come to an end. The issue I had my eye on over the weekend was one close to our hearts here at Greenpeace – climate change. And funnily enough, every time I tuned into the radio over the weekend, all I kept hearing about climate…
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The Clean Coal Myth Gets A Helping Hand
In case it has slipped anyone’s minds, let me recap why the environment movement campaigns on climate change. We have a few years left to get emissions falling dramatically and in Australia, we need to be looking at at least 40% reductions below 1990 levels by the year 2020. This is if we want to…
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Why I helped shut down the Munmorah power station
13 activists, including myself, appeared in court today after we took part in a peaceful Greenpeace protest last year. We shut down coal loading equipment at the Munmorah coal-fired power station and painted the message “Coal Kills” on its roof, in order to highlight the fact that our atmosphere is being choked with greenhouse gases,…
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Election eve- some thoughts on where to from here.
On election eve, where are we placed after all the froth and bubble of the campaign? We don’t yet know who’s going to win the election tomorrow night but there are a number of things that we do know: 1) The international science community has released its strongest warning yet that we need to cut…
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Environment Minister absent at climate forum in his own electorate
Last night a diverse and at times raucous crowd of 150 Wentworth residents turned out to hear how their candidates for the federal election would deal with the most pressing issue facing the planet: climate change. In a seat where environmental issues are dominating the agenda, it is no surprise that the crowd were fired…