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“It’s not good for residents, it’s not good for business and it’s not good for our city”
Residents of Port Augusta, South Australia don’t always have the basic human right of being able to breathe clean air. Instead, all too often they’re forced inside as choking coal dust blankets their town. ||| 7am in central Adelaide, Tuesday 14th March. Golden rays of light break over the city as we gather on the…
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Seismic blasting threatens one of South Australia’s natural treasures
March 16, 2018: New plans to conduct seismic testing within 90 kilometres of South Australia’s world-renowned Kangaroo Island is madness and endangers this unique marine environment.Media reports yesterday revealed that two Norwegian companies have lodged applications to the National Offshore Petroleum Safety and Environmental Management Authority (NOPSEMA) to conduct seismic testing 51 kilometres from land…
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Is krill oil sustainable?
Krill oil is a lucrative industry and it’s looking to expand, but at what cost? Krill is often sold in products such as krill oil and Omega-3 tablets, as well as fishmeal for farmed fish and even pet food. But despite presenting itself as one of the best managed fisheries in the world, our latest…
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REPORT: License to Krill
Are krill oil companies stealing food from the mouths of Antarctic penguins and whales?
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Adelaide statues don dusk masks to urge Jay Weatherill to commit to cleaning up coal’s dirty legacy in Port Augusta
ADELAIDE, March 14, 2018 – Port Augusta residents who have been choking on harmful coal dust for more than a year have taken their frustrations to Jay Weatherill in Adelaide and affixed dust masks throughout the city’s CBD along with messages demanding that the Premier commit to cleaning up the problem.Early this morning Greenpeace activists…
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Five quick facts about cleaning up after coal
Port Augusta in South Australia is on its way to a clean energy future, with less health problems for its community – but only if we clean up after coal properly. We’ve got five facts to get you up to speed on the why and how of cleaning up after coal from our latest report,…
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Krill fishing industry stealing food from the mouths of Antarctic penguins and whales
SYDNEY, 13 March 2018 – With virtually no public scrutiny the krill fishing industry has edged its intensive fishing efforts to the borders of protected areas and feeding grounds, competing directly with whales and penguins for the krill that underpin the Antarctic food chain, a Greenpeace report reveals.The Greenpeace investigation has tracked the activities of…
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Coal, Guns, and Secrecy: Why you need to know about Efic
Large-scale, detrimental fossil-fuel projects (think Adani’s Carmichael coal mine) need one key thing in order to go ahead. Funding. But where does this funding come from? Well, in a lot of cases, it comes from banks. But in recent times, in Australia at least, we have seen an active move from banks to lower their…
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Procession of Port Augusta residents demand Jay Weatherill clean up power plant site after another dust event
Port Augusta, March 6, 2018 – Residents slowed traffic to a crawl on one of the Port Augusta’s busiest thoroughfares this afternoon, to demand full and proper remediation of the town’s defunct coal power plant, a day after yet another harmful dust event.The level of particulate matter 10 micrometers or less in diameter (PM10) in…