Land & water
Forest refuges under threat from logging by the VIC Government
A new report showing analysis of maps and data from the 2019/20 Black Summer bushfires has revealed the significant areas of unburnt forests critical for bushfire affected wildlife are set to be logged by the Victorian Government.
Land & water
Alcoa Portland Aluminium Smelter Response to FoE's Koala Concerns
Alcoa Portland Aluminium Smelter, in Victoria's south west, has responded to Friends of the Earth's (FoE) concerns, aired last week concerning horrific injuries sustained by a koala found at a local golf course in late January. The issue gained national news coverage. A follow up story by the ABC also revealed that koalas near the smelter have been suffering from excessive fluoride levels.
Land & water
Koala reported as being horrifically burnt at Portland Aluminium Smelter
Friends of the Earth has been alarmed to learn that a koala was horrifically burnt at Alcoa's Portland Aluminium smelter, in South West Victoria in late January.
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EPBC final report our best chance to head off further extinctions
Australia’s federal environmental laws - the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation (EPBC) Act - are broken.
Land & water
South Australia’s number one drinking water quality concern?
Recent Freedom of Information data obtained by Friends of the Earth (FoE) reveals that the substance most regularly breaching Australian Drinking Water Guidelines (ADWG's) in South Australia continue to be Trihalomethanes (THM’s).
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Taungerong Elder calls for logging to halt to protect water and native fish
Taungerong, Nira-Balluck Elder, Uncle Larry Walsh has spoken out against the Victorian Government’s plans to clearfell thousands of hectares of native forest in the Snobs Creek catchment.
Uncle Larry Walsh standing in front of Mountain Ash forest and emerging Cool Temperate Rainforest, about to be wiped out in the Snobs Creek catchment
Land & water
Myponga Reservoir in South Australia. A National Pesticide Hotspot?
Myponga Reservoir on South Australia's Fleurieu Peninsula is the latest water body to be identified by Friends of the Earth as a pesticide hotspot.
Land & water
Water Industry a Major Source of PFAS Contamination
Friends of the Earth is concerned that the $23 billion water industry is a major source of PFAS contamination over potentially tens of thousands of hectares of land across Australia. With the push on to increase the availability of recycled water in the world's driest continent, the potential toxic nature of inadequately treated recycled water and biosolids raises plenty of concerns.
Melbourne Water's Eastern Treatment Plant
Land & water
Solidarity with Bangladeshi communities saying NO to MAAR Ltd.’s toxic waste
Friends of the Earth Australia have signed on to a statement of solidarity (below) with Bangladeshi communities mobilising to protect their canals against the dumping of toxic industrial waste.
Land & water
EPBC review - please write a submission
The federal government has been trying to ‘reform’ the environmental assessment laws for major projects. They have now tabled amended legislation, which was approved by the House of Representatives in September.