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Environmental breaches by Palmer’s Waratah Coal should rule out Federal approval for new mega-mine
Press release – 5 November, 2013Sydney, 6 Nov 2013. The decision by Queensland’s Environment Department to issue Clive Palmer’s Waratah Coal with an Environment Protection Order (EPO) should force the Federal Government to delay a decision, due next week, on whether to approve the controversial billionaire’s China First coal mine in the untapped Galilee Basin…
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The climate change guilt trip
The battle against global warming should not be about judging people’s every choice. Originally posted on Los Angeles Times, 2 June 2013 A friend recently returned from a camping trip in the Sierra Nevada. His eyes shone as he described the opalescent sky, the vitality of wildlife in spring and the fun he’d had playing…
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The last tree or the final straw?
Born in 1965 and hailing from South Africa, Kumi Naidoo has been Greenpeace’s International Executive Director since November 2009. Our office in Istanbul has been under siege. It is in the heart Taksim, an area in which a brutal police clampdown has been trying to end the peaceful protest over the planned destruction of the…
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Arctic at the Crossroads
As a small team of youth ambassadors for Greenpeace’s Arctic campaign begin their trek to the North Pole, I’m reminded of the campaign to save the Antarctic (below), which I led on behalf of Greenpeace in the 1980s. Blogpost by Kelly Rigg – April 8, 2013 While politics between the two poles are literally polar…
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Plastic and politics: how bureaucracy is failing our forgotten wildlife
Seabirds: the poster children for ocean health. Fishers use them to identify fishing hot spots. Environmental and marine scientists use them as indicators of the condition of the ocean environment due to their ability to cover vast areas. By Jennifer Lavers, Monash University But in Australia, one such species – the Flesh-footed Shearwater – is…
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It’s simple: Ban the FAD
Blogpost by Duncan Williams – December 5, 2012 Philippines is a great country. “It’s more fun in the Philippines” is an aptly coined slogan for its tourism campaign. Greenpeace put that slogan to the test this morning with an impromptu activity delivering a message to delegates attending the Ninth Annual Session of the Western and…
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Greenpeace campaign censored
Press release – 30 October, 2012Wednesday, 31 October, 2012, Melbourne: Greenpeace is demanding John West clarify whether it was involved in a decision by a small family-owned company to remove a billboard targeting the company near its head office in Melbourne.Independent Outdoor Media (IOM) confirmed the Greenpeace ‘Reject John West’ campaign was cut short yesterday…
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Cooking the climate: Wrecking the reef
Everything about the Galilee Basin is epic. Its name, its size and sparse beauty, the enormous amount of coal buried just under the soil and the scale of mining being proposed to dig it up. But eclipsing all of this are the epic consequences if this coal is dug up and burnt – and that…