All articles by Greenpeace Australia Pacific
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A World Without Greenpeace? How One Corporation Is Attacking Your Right to Speak for Forests
Your right to speak out is being threatened right now in a dizzying variety of ways, not only by oppressive governments around the world, but also by underhanded corporations who want to suppress speech through expensive lawsuits. Right now, Greenpeace is facing a massive lawsuit that Resolute Forest Products has filed to prevent us from…
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Conflict of interest: Australia stoops to new low at UN climate talks
Press release – 11 May, 2017Friday May 12, 2017: Australia’s support for fossil fuel companies’ participation in UN discussions on climate is a new low, says Greenpeace Australia Pacific CEO, David Ritter, citing a clear conflict of interest.Government representatives from the nearly 200 countries who are signed on to the Paris Agreement have gathered for…
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Senate committee report proves we cannot trust the government to protect the Great Australian Bight
Press release – 11 May, 2017Friday May 12: Australian politicians are putting oil company profits before the environment and community and cannot be trusted to safeguard the Great Australian Bight, Greenpeace Australia Pacific says in response to yesterday’s Senate report.The report into the consequences of opening up the Great Australian Bight for oil or gas…
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Oil spill inaction shows Government’s soft treatment of big polluters
Press release – 9 May, 2017Wednesday May 10: The Government’s refusal to hold big polluting oil companies to account for their negligence in Bass Strait is a demonstration of why we need to keep them out of the Great Australian Bight.The National Offshore Petroleum Safety and Environmental Management Authority (NOPSEMA) yesterday served an ‘improvement’ notice…
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Six reasons to keep oil out of the Great Australian Bight
“The Great Australian Bight is the greatest whale nursery on this planet. The whale story where I come from is my university, my school… Whales like sperm whales, blue whales, pygmy blue whales, killer whales, humpback whales – they travel down there to honour that great journey, that song, that story of the great white…
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Greenpeace climbers dropped a whopping banner outside CommBank’s HQ
Today, two volunteers scaled a bridge outside the Commonwealth Bank’s headquarters in Sydney to send a message the bank can’t ignore. Together, Mick and Kai climbed 25 metres up and safely hung a huge banner with a message for CommBank’s CEO Ian Narev: stop funding dirty coal. And it was awesome. Here’s how it went…
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Turnbull must hold Trump to account on Paris Agreement
Press release – 2 May, 2017Sydney, 3 May 2017: Greenpeace Australia Pacific is calling on Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull to hold US President Donald Trump to account on the Paris climate agreement when the two leaders meet in New York on Friday this week.Recent reports[1] have signalled that the Trump administration is leaning towards withdrawing…
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We should create cities for slowing down
Peter Jackson employed an intricate approach to the stage design of Lord of the Rings. The people who inhabited Middle Earth for hundreds of generations slowly left cultural traces, alterations, artefacts and remnants of their human existence on the environment. For example, the cinematographic stage set for Rivendell gives the viewer the impression of use…