Submitted by Cam Walker on Mon, 05/08/2013 - 13:21
MEDIA ADVISORY August 5, 2013
Friends of the Earth Australia
Friends of the Earth Groups Call on Shell To Clean Up Nigeria Oil Spills
Melbourne / AMSTERDAM (THE NETHERLANDS) / LAGOS (NIGERIA), 5 August 2013 – Exactly two years after a United Nations report exposed oil giant Shell's systematic contamination of Ogoniland in Nigeria, Friends of the Earth groups from around the world are today launching an online petition targeting Shell. [1]
Submitted by Cam Walker on Fri, 02/08/2013 - 13:45
Wednesday 31 July 2013
Nokia, Sony, Blackberry, Motorola and LG Electronics have all publicly accepted for the first time that their phones are likely to contain tin that's destroying tropical forests, killing coral and wrecking the lives of communities in Indonesia, Friends of the Earth reveals today.
Submitted by Cam Walker on Thu, 01/08/2013 - 10:01
Shell is the largest foreign oil company in Nigeria - the oil giant has been drilling oil in the Niger delta for decades - with catastrophic consequences for the environment and the people.
Ogoniland, a region in Southern Nigeria, is most heavily contaminated by oil: oil leaks have contaminated water bodies and formerly fertile soils and the ecosystem of the mangrove forests suffers heavily from the oil pollution.
Submitted by Cam Walker on Wed, 03/07/2013 - 07:33
Media Release 2 July 2013
Friends of the Earth Australia
AusAID has effectively axed its $47 million forest carbon experiment in Kalimantan ahead of Prime Minister Rudd's visit to Indonesia this week.
Submitted by Cam Walker on Tue, 02/07/2013 - 11:54
Sydney 2nd July 2013
Civil society groups representing millions of members worldwide have sent Aurizon CEO Lance Hockridge and the Board an open letter urging it to abandon plans to buy GVK Hancock’s rail and port project and signalling an intention to use all peaceful means to stop the projects being built.
Submitted by Cam Walker on Mon, 01/07/2013 - 09:06
More than 60 community leaders have signed an open letter to the big four banks, telling them - for the sake of avoiding runaway climate change - to end investments in fossil fuels.
Among the signatories are musicians including Claire Bowditch, Urthboy and Mark Seymour, award-winning writers, including Peter Carey and John Coetzee, religious leaders, artists, academics, scientists, health professionals, environmentalists and a two-time Olympian!
Submitted by Cam Walker on Tue, 25/06/2013 - 11:36
In 2012, King Islanders were trusted to determine the fate of a proposed wind farm. Today, the results of a community vote are in.
Despite an anti-wind energy scare campaign backed by wealthy NIMBYs and big PR, the community has voted for a wind farm feasibility study. The result shows that King Islanders won’t be fooled by anti-wind energy spin.
Submitted by Cam Walker on Tue, 18/06/2013 - 09:16
MEDIA RELEASE - Tuesday June 18
Coalition divided while Australians are united in support for renewable energy
Submitted by Cam Walker on Fri, 07/06/2013 - 09:56
June 8 marks World Oceans Day. The theme this year is “Oceans and People”.
Friends of the Earth sees this as an opportune moment to highlight the way in which carbon pollution is undermining the life-supporting capacities of our oceans and magnifying their destructive potential. These changes are bringing dramatic impacts to communities who are reliant on the oceans for their livelihood.
Submitted by Cam Walker on Fri, 07/06/2013 - 09:14
An opinion piece for World Oceans Day, June 2013
Ocean changes illustrate stark reality of climate change
Outlining the reality
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