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Longline fisheries are out of line – Greenpeace
Press release – 26 November, 2013Sydney, Wednesday 27 November 2013: The world’s longline tuna fisheries are out of control, rife with illegal fishing and responsible for killing hundreds of thousands of marine turtles and threatened sharks every year.These are some of the findings of a new report ‘Out of line, the global failure of tuna…
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Industrial fishing in the Pacific is out of control: Greenpeace
Press release – 17 November, 2013Suva, 18 November, 2013 – Comprehensive measures need to be put in place to reduce fishing capacity to save the region’s tuna fisheries, Greenpeace Australia Pacific urged in a new report launched today.In 2012 there was a record tuna catch and record number of vessels in the purse seine fishery.…
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Environmental breaches by Palmer’s Waratah Coal should rule out Federal approval for new mega-mine
Press release – 5 November, 2013Sydney, 6 Nov 2013. The decision by Queensland’s Environment Department to issue Clive Palmer’s Waratah Coal with an Environment Protection Order (EPO) should force the Federal Government to delay a decision, due next week, on whether to approve the controversial billionaire’s China First coal mine in the untapped Galilee Basin…
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Maules Creek = Risky Business for Whitehaven Shareholders
Press release – 3 November, 2013Monday 4th November 2013, Sydney. Members of the public will gather outside Whitehaven’s Annual General Meeting in Sydney this morning to highlight the enormous risks associated with investing in this highly controversial coal company and its Maules Creek mine in NSW’s Leard State Forest.Whitehaven is betting the bank on its…
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When does no mean no? Government should resist pressure to lift super trawler ban
Press release – 17 September, 2013Wednesday 18 September 2013: Greenpeace and Environment Tasmania today welcomed Senator Richard Colbeck’s proposal to conduct new surveys of the Australian small pelagic fishery, but cautioned him against using this as a stepping stone to overturning the existing ban on supertrawlers.Doing so would open Australian waters to destructive fishing vessels…