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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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5 signs your food system is broken
and 5 things we can do to fix it Food is fascinating. It sustains us, but it’s so much more than that. We use food as a way to celebrate, make friends and even make statements about who we are and what we stand for. Food production supports farming families. But the intensive production 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…
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A Shaky Prospect: Seismic testing in the Great Australian Bight
‘Imagine someone operating a nail gun for three months in your kitchen and you have nowhere else to eat…. Drone footage of Bunda Cliffs in the Great Australian Bight. The Bight is a pristine stretch of ocean off the southern coastal fringe of Western Australia, South Australia and Victoria. It is a globally significant whale…
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REPORT: Done and Dusted?
February 2018: As Australia transitions away from coal-fired power, questions are raised about the safe management and disposal coal ash, one of the most significant forms of waste in the…
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Cayman Islands scheme ‘could leave Port Augusta residents in the lurch and South Australia with massive coal clean-up bill’
PORT AUGUSTA, March 2, 2018 – A corporate structure including the creation of a Cayman Islands shell company could allow the former operator of Port Augusta’s power plants to avoid footing the bill to clean up coal’s dirty legacy, making it vital that the next premier of South Australia intervene.A Greenpeace Australia Pacific report, published…
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Why should we care about krill?
When you think of Antarctica, most people think of penguins, seals, whales and even polar bears! Well, they’d be right (except for the polar bears – that’s the Arctic). But there’s one animal in particular that doesn’t get enough cred – the humble krill. Krill are tiny shrimp-like creatures that live in the Antarctic Ocean…
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Charity Attack Laws: An Explainer
On 7 December 2017, while the nation celebrated the historic vote for marriage equality, the Coalition quietly introduced a number of bills to Parliament. Their aim? To silence every single one of us – environmental groups, humanitarian organisations and people like you A Greenpeace supporter uses a megaphone to make clear her thoughts during the…