Land & water
Environment Department handballs wildlife protections to government logging agency
East Gippsland conservation groups were outraged to learn this week that environmental protections for threatened species detected in state forests are being designed by state owned logging company VicForests.
Economics for Earth
FoEA News and Events: March
Catch up on the latest newsletter of radical news, events and ways to take action for social and environmental justice.
Climate & Energy Justice
Another insurer dumps Adani!
Brit, one of Lloyd's of London's biggest insurers, will never insure Adani’s climate-wrecking coal mine and won’t renew insurance for Adani’s rail line!
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.
Economics for Earth
QBE kicks climate can down the road & keeps supporting oil and gas expansions despite massive loss
Together with the announcement of a massive A$2b loss due in part to ever-worsening extreme weather, fuelled by the burning of oil and gas, QBE’s updated Environmental and Social Risk Framework, released today, includes oil and gas targets which ignore the urgency of the climate crisis and are out of line with the Paris Agreement goal of keeping warming to 1.5 degrees.
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.
Economics for Earth
Nigerian farmers & Friends of the Earth Netherlands win Shell oil pollution case
The Court of Appeal in The Hague has today ( 29 January 2021 ) ruled in favour of Friends of the Earth Netherlands/Milieudefensie and four Nigerians on most points in an oil pollution case that was first brought against Shell in 2008.
Land & water
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).