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Kevin 08 is about quitting coal
So Labor got up, big time. Congratulations to them. Their victory represents a golden opportunity for the new government to take strong leadership on the key election issue of climate change, by quitting coal and delivering the deep emission cuts required to avoid dangerous global warming. While Kevin 07 was about winning the election, Kevin…
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Election eve- some thoughts on where to from here.
On election eve, where are we placed after all the froth and bubble of the campaign? We don’t yet know who’s going to win the election tomorrow night but there are a number of things that we do know: 1) The international science community has released its strongest warning yet that we need to cut…
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The coal mafia’s last gasp
This is the election we had to have. Finally, the environment movement with the help of the Australian population has dragged climate change onto the agenda. Meanwhile the coal industry, their pollie buddies and their gullible lap dog lackeys are still kicking and screaming. And the lie that they’re screaming is ‘clean coal’. Ha! The…
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Greenpeace Power Station Action Update
Munmorah, NSW Central Coast, Thursday 8am 15 November 2007: I’m just touching base from the roof of Munmorah coal fired power station, where my fellow climbers have painted the message ‘Coal Kills’. And that’s exactly why we’re up here – because coal kills. It’s killing our planet, it’s killing our economy and it’s killing our…
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Activist update
Central Coast, 2.00pm: I have just returned from the gates of Munmorah coal-fire power station, where 15 of my fellow activists have been arrested. It’s been a hectic day but we have succeeded in preventing coal from entering one of the country’s oldest and dirtiest power stations for over five hours, sending it into wind-down.…
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A whole lot of climate blah, blah, but no action
Tens of thousands of people braved the heat in cities across the nation on Sunday to show their anger at so many years of inaction on climate change. And with so much talk about the Kyoto Protocol, emissions trading and various low-impact but distracting thingy-me-jigs you could be forgiven for getting hopeful. Maybe, just maybe…
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Environment Minister absent at climate forum in his own electorate
Last night a diverse and at times raucous crowd of 150 Wentworth residents turned out to hear how their candidates for the federal election would deal with the most pressing issue facing the planet: climate change. In a seat where environmental issues are dominating the agenda, it is no surprise that the crowd were fired…
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ALP comes clean on energy policy
Climate change and renewable energy was always going to be a big election issue. John Howard came out of the blocks early with his clean energy target to increase renewable energy and so called ‘clean coal’. The ALP trumped it today with their announcement of a target to achieve 20% renewable energy by 2020.Whenever there…
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Hey big spender, don’t forget the planet
We’re one week into the election campaign and the shopping lists of political promises are already adding up to big dollars for both parties. And although both Prime Minister John Howard and opposition Leader Kevin Rudd would have us believe they are serious about climate change, they are yet to put their money where their…