Climate & Energy Justice
When will we ban new coal mines? #StopAdani
“I just cannot believe that in 2017 we are still fighting the Adani coal mine” begins Stop Adani campaigner Charlie Wood; her gentle demeanor belies the indignation of her words.
Land & water
Supreme Court Injunction halts logging of old growth Kuark Forest
Forest conservationists who established a blockade of old growth forest in East Gippsland are celebrating today after environment groups secured a legal injunction that has stalled the logging operation.
Food & Technology
Stop the Government shredding the rules on GMOs
The Office of the Gene Technology Regulator (OGTR) plans to deregulate a range of new dangerous new genetic modification techniques such as CRISPR.
Climate & Energy Justice
Is there a future for ‘pro-nuclear environmentalism’?
Michael Shellenberger was in Australia recently. He has been a prominent environmentalist (of sorts) since he co-authored the 2004 essay, The Death of Environmentalism.
These days, as the President of the California-based ‘Environmental Progress’ lobby group, he is stridently pro-nuclear, hostile towards renewable energy and hostile towards the environment movement.
Climate & Energy Justice
Victoria's energy future secured as Andrews govt's Renewable Energy Target becomes law
In a historic moment for Victoria's energy future, the Victorian Renewable Energy Target today passed the upper house in state Parliament and will become law.
“This is a historic day for Victoria's energy future, and a victory for the community who have long made the case for the Victorian Renewable Energy Target” said Pat Simons, Friends of the Earth's renewable energy spokesperson.
Land & water
FoE calls for further investigations into regulations regarding PFAS and PFOS chemicals
In late September FoE sent a submission to the Victorian EPA’s PFAS National Environmental Management Plan. Read the submission here.
Friends of the Earth calls for further investigation into regulatory failure concerning PFAS (Per-and Poly-Fluoroalkyl Sulfonate) chemicals. Government authorities have known about its dangers since 2000 but have done very little to safeguard the community.
Climate & Energy Justice
Stop Adani: Thousands turn out for a day of national action
Thousands have rallied in Sydney, Brisbane, Melbourne, the Gold Coast, Port Douglas to oppose Adani's proposed Carmichael coal mine.
Climate & Energy Justice
New Report shows Underground Coal Gasification too costly and too unreliable
The Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (IEEFA) today published a report describing how coal-to-gasification technology for electricity-generation purposes remains commercially unviable.
Land & water
Report exposes Victorian Labor's lawless logging
To mark National Threatened Species day, Friends of the Earth Melbourne has released a report documenting 27 unlawful native forest logging operations in protected threatened species habitat and rainforest.
Climate & Energy Justice
Australia's contribution to nuclear proliferation risks
Once again, the world finds itself in a dangerous place as one mad-man explodes increasingly powerful nuclear weapons and another mad-man threatens North Korea with "fire, fury and frankly power the likes of which this world has never seen before."