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Morrison finally drops dodgy climate accounting
MELBOURNE, Saturday 5 December 2020 – In response to Prime Minister Scott Morrison announcing that Australia will drop the plan to use dodgy Kyoto credits to meet its Paris climate target, Greenpeace Australia Pacific spokesperson Nelli Stevenson said:“The Morrison government has long been shamed on the global stage for its use of dodgy accounting to…
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Replacing Liddell with Renewables Cheaper and Less Polluting than Gas
Greenpeace launches the report: Scenarios for the Replacement of the Liddell Power Station Report The cheapest and lowest emissions option to replace the Liddell coal-burning power station in the New South Wales Hunter Valley is clean energy backed up by batteries, according to a new report by energy analytics firm RepuTex. ||| New modelling undertaken…
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Bushfire Royal Commission missed opportunity to make polluters pay for climate damage like the 2019-20 bushfires
The New South Wales ‘Mega’ fire, which measures 1.5 million acres, burns on the outskirts of the small town of Tumbarumba in the Snowy Mountains, NSW. Since blazes broke out in September, Australia has seen unprecedented bushfires destroying nearly 11 million hectares with at least 29 people loosing their lives. It is estimated that more…
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Make polluters pay: Bushfire Royal Commission should have called for disaster levy on fossil fuel exports
SYDNEY, Oct 30 2020 – Greenpeace is calling for the country’s biggest polluters to pay for climate disasters like the 2019-20 bushfires, through a levy.A short time ago the Royal Commission into National Natural Disaster Arrangements published its final report, which failed to recommend that the fossil fuel industry whose operations fuel climate change should…
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Coal fuels fires: Greenpeace beams images of survivors onto NSW coal power station on day bushfire Royal Commission findings delivered
LAKE MACQUARIE, Oct 28 2020 – Greenpeace has projected images of bushfire survivors onto the Vales Point coal burning power station on the day the bushfire Royal Commission is due to hand down its final report and recommendations.The message “Coal Fuels Fires” was beamed onto a tower at the highly-polluting power station overnight to make…
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Unpopular Narrabri gas project will destroy environment and climate
SYDNEY, Sept 30 2020 – The decision to ignore the science and overwhelming community concerns by approving the Narrabri Gas Project could lead to the destruction of vital agricultural land, water resources and native wildlife including koalas unless Santos is unable to meet the conditions, or community opposition succeeds.This morning the IPC announced that it…
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‘It’s gas!’ Morrison guts clean energy agencies and outlines recovery policy more suited to 1960 than 2020
SYDNEY, Sept 17 2020 – Australia’s two renewable energy agencies will be allowed to invest in gas under a proposal written by the gas industry and dutifully made law by the Morrison Government.The Clean Energy Finance Corporation and the Australian Renewable Energy Agency, which are currently only allowed to invest in clean energy sources, will…
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REPORT: Lethal Power, How coal is killing people in Australia
Air pollution from Australia’s ageing and increasingly unreliable coal-burning power stations is responsible for 800 premature deaths, 14,000 asthma symptoms among children and 850 cases of low birth weight in…
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Air pollution from burning coal kills 800 people in Australia each year and makes thousands more ill
SYDNEY, Aug 25 2020 – Air pollution from Australia’s ageing and increasingly unreliable coal-burning power stations is responsible for 800 premature deaths, 14,000 asthma symptoms among children and 850 cases of low birth weight in newborns each year, according to a ground-breaking report by Greenpeace.The report Lethal Power: How burning coal is killing people in…
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An ode to my nieces
I have two little nieces, aged one and four, the daughters of my twin sister. They are very cheeky and can apparently be quite exhausting. They love building things and knocking them down again, they love singing and dancing, and teasing each other, and spraying water on people and things around them. They really love…