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International Experts Called in to Stop Xstrata’s Wandaon Coal Mine

Submitted by FOEAdmin on Thu, 04/08/2011 - 06:45

Friends of the Earth (FoE) has called in some of the world’s leading climate change experts as witnesses to assist the Queensland Land Court in understanding FoE’s climate change case against the Wandoan Mega Mine. FoE are calling on the Court to recommend that the Queensland Government reject the mine as part of the formal approval process for the proposed mine.
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Please put in a submission against exploration for coal and CSG

Submitted by FOEAdmin on Tue, 02/08/2011 - 23:00

Please put in a submission against exploration application for coal and CSG in western Victoria. These must be put in by August 21.
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CSG threat to Murray-Darling: 12.7 million hectares and counting

Submitted by FOEAdmin on Sat, 16/07/2011 - 17:00

Seven environment groups last week provided a detailed submission to the Federal Senate Inquiry into coal seam gas and the Murray-Darling, arguing that the industry represents one of the gravest new threats that has ever been seen to the Basin.
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Carbon Price Mechanism: ‘The Greatest Corporate Windfall of our Time’

Submitted by FOEAdmin on Sat, 09/07/2011 - 23:10

Friends of the Earth Australia has today criticised the carbon price mechanism for its generous handouts to polluters and for its limited impact on greenhouse gas emissions.
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No new coal at Anglesea - time to start the transition

Submitted by FOEAdmin on Tue, 14/06/2011 - 14:02

The Victorian government intends to renew Alcoa's mining lease for another 50 years.

Please get active now to stop another half century of coal mining and greenhouse pollution.
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Friends of the Earth International celebrates 40 years of campaigning

Submitted by FOEAdmin on Fri, 10/06/2011 - 20:55

Friends of the Earth International, the world's largest global grassroots federation of environmental groups, is marking its 40th anniversary. Throughout the year we will celebrate, together with our member groups and supporters, all that we have achieved over the past forty years.
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Voluntary water buybacks must continue to save the Murray-Darling

Submitted by FOEAdmin on Thu, 12/05/2011 - 01:20

Victorian environment groups have called on the Federal Government to stick to its election promise to ‘bridge the gap’ and save the Murray-Darling river system by buying back water entitlements from willing sellers.

The report of the Windsor Inquiry into the socio-economic effects of the Murray-Darling Basin Plan, released today, has suggested an immediate halt to the Commonwealth’s voluntary water buyback program.
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‘Hard-wired’ path to carbon trading goes the wrong direction

Submitted by FOEAdmin on Wed, 23/02/2011 - 04:35

Today’s announcement of the Multi Party Climate Change Committee (MPCCC) agreed pathway of an interim price ‘hard-wired’ to become an emissions trading scheme takes Australia in the wrong direction, says Friends of the Earth Australia, and away from real solutions to the climate crisis.
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