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University of Sydney acknowledges Whitehaven Coal shares problematic
Press release – 24 August, 2014Sydney, Monday 25 August 2014: Greenpeace is urging the University of Sydney to listen to the community and dump its shares in Whitehaven Coal following the announcement today that the university is reviewing its investment policies and has “issued an instruction to make no further purchases in Whitehaven Coal.”“The University…
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Greenpeace calls on Pru Goward to resist Whitehaven Coal pressure to approve a new forest-clearing plan while court decision outstanding
Press release – 21 August, 2014Thursday 21 August 2014, Sydney: Revelations have come to light today that controversial company Whitehaven Coal has begun a process to seek approval for a new Biodiversity Management Plan (BMP) before the full case on the legality of their existing Plan has even been heard in court.In the new draft…
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Greenpeace/TEC launch Green Electricity Guide – ranks power companies, empowers consumers to switch
Press release – 17 August, 2014A new, independent online Green Electricity Guide, produced by Greenpeace Australia and the Total Environment Centre, provides a state by state ranking of electricity retailers against seven criteria, creating a tool consumers can use to switch to more environmentally friendly power companies.Visit: the site here . Senior Greenpeace Campaigner Reece…
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Greenpeace and Australian tuna fishers demand urgent recovery plan for bigeye tuna
Press release – 5 August, 2014Wednesday 6 August 2014. Sydney/Marshall Islands: Shocking new assessments, tabled today at the 10th meeting of the Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission (WCPFC) Scientific Committee in the Marshall Islands highlight the failure of tuna fishing nations to protect one of the world’s most important fisheries, bigeye tuna.“Greenpeace, along with…
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Carbon Price repeal blindly irrational
Press release – 16 July, 2014Thursday 17 July, 2014: Following the repeal of the Carbon Price, Greenpeace reminded Prime Minister Tony Abbott that his government is still committed to reducing Australia’s emissions by five per cent by 2020 and even meeting this measly target will require retaining key clean energy policies such as the Renewable…
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New evidence reveals Australian companies trading in paper from Indonesian forest destruction
Press release – 7 July, 2014Jakarta, Sydney: 8 July 2014 – Indonesia’s second largest pulp and paper company, APRIL, which is part of the RGE Group, has been caught out in photographic evidence clearing rainforests and fire-prone peatland, deceiving customers through false environmental claims. The Greenpeace evidence comes just a week after a new study…
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Greenpeace sends in the airforce to bear witness to Leard Forest mine destruction
Press release – 3 June, 2014Maules Creek, NSW: Today, two motorised para-gliders have taken to the sky above the Leard State Forest. The gliders are filming the devastation left in the wake of Whitehaven Coal’s bulldozing of critically endangered forest.The action occurred on the day of a mass snap rally in Sydney organised by a…
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Snap mass rally to halt bulldozing of Leard Forest for coal mine
Press release – 2 June, 2014On the eve of World Environment Day, a coalition of national environment groups, Labor and Greens MPs and farmers hold snap rally to protest bulldozing of the Leard State Forest by Whitehaven Coal. Private spies have been identified as infiltrating the camp of landowners and environmentalists working to stop the…
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Whitehaven Coal thwarted as fresh activists step in to stop forest clearing
Press release – 1 June, 2014Maules Creek, NSW, Monday 2 June 2014: As tree-climbing activists hinder bulldozing for the fourth day in a row, Greenpeace is calling on the NSW Government to urgently stop forest clearing in the Leard State Forest during the winter hibernating months.“Just this morning, a new group of tree-climbers entered a…