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New Equinor oil spill and safety incident points to danger for the Bight
SYDNEY, Dec 4, 2019 – Just days after Australia’s National Offshore Petroleum Safety and Environmental Management Authority (NOPSEMA) received Norwegian company Equinor’s third draft environmental plan for deep-sea oil drilling in the Great Australian Bight – news has emerged of a fresh oil leak and explosion in the company’s European operations.Norway’s safety watchdog has launched…
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The Pacific can’t afford another climate groundhog day
MADRID, Dec 2 2019 – As heads of state gather in Madrid for the 25th Conference of Parties (COP25) meeting of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), Pacific leaders are calling for a rapid reduction in coal use to be central to any plan addressing the climate crisis.Any credible plan to confront…
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Bushfire survivors deliver remains of family home to Parliament House: “Morrison, your climate crisis destroyed my home”
CANBERRA, 2 December 2019 – Survivors of Australia’s ongoing bushfire emergency have delivered the remains of their family home to Parliament House in Canberra this morning, bearing the message ‘Morrison, your climate crisis destroyed my home’.Melinda Plesman and her partner Dean Kennedy of Nymboida, NSW, lost their family home of 35 years after bushfires tore…
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Poll: Vast majority of Aussies want corporates to re-energize with 100% renewable energy
SYDNEY, November 26, 2019 – Almost 70% of Australians want companies to set a goal of 100% renewable energy as part of their responsibility to tackle climate change, according to a new Ucomms poll released today commissioned by Greenpeace Australia Pacific.The poll also revealed that almost 80% of Australians agreed that Australian companies should be…
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Sydneysiders don dust masks as bushfires make the city a global air pollution hot spot
SYDNEY, Nov 19 2019 – Sydneysiders continue to choke on hazardous air pollution with catastrophic bushfire smoke blanketing large parts of NSW and making Sydney the 11th most polluted city in the world.Today Greenpeace volunteers in the Sydney CBD handed out dust masks as air pollution levels soared to levels 10-25 times higher than World Health…
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Equinor rejected after failing to plug gaps in safety plan to drill for oil in the Great Australian Bight
SYDNEY, Nov 11 2019 – Norwegian oil company Equinor has had its proposal to drill in the Great Australian Bight rejected for a second time, after again failing to convince the safety regulator it can drill without putting the entire southern coast of Australia at risk of a catastrophic oil spill.Earlier today the National Offshore…
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Equinor to spray banned chemical dispersant that harms whales and workers in the Great Australian Bight
SYDNEY, Nov 7, 2019 – Regulators will bend the rules to allow Equinor to respond to an oil spill in the Great Australian Bight by deploying a banned chemical cocktail that doesn’t work and is toxic to humans and marine life, according to a new report by Professor Jodie Rummer and Greenpeace.Equinor’s plans, due to…
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Safety incidents surge at Equinor facilities ahead of Great Australian Bight drilling decision
SYDNEY, Nov 1 2019 – Just weeks before the Australian offshore oil safety regulator NOPSEMA is due to make a decision on Norwegian oil company Equinor’s bid to drill in the Great Australian Bight, new research from Greenpeace has revealed that over the past twelve months the company has overseen a doubling in serious safety…
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REPORT: Safety incidents surge since Equinor’s bid to drill the Great Australian Bight
Download report: Download a detailed summary and excerpts from the incident reports. — Just weeks before the Australian offshore oil safety regulator NOPSEMA is due to make a decision on Norwegian oil company Equinor’s bid to drill in the Great Australian Bight, new research from Greenpeace has revealed that over the past twelve months the…
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Fijian PM hits back at Morrison’s UN speech, saying there is ‘no alternative’ to a coal phaseout
NEW YORK, Sept 26, 2019 – The only credible way to address the climate crisis is to end the use of coal, Fijian Prime Minister Frank Bainimarama tweeted moments after Scott Morrison defended Australia’s climate inaction at the UN General Assembly. “Unless we stop burning coal, we have no hope of achieving net-zero emissions in 31…