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Dredging set to swamp decades of Great Barrier Reef protection
After decades of work, A$200 million in taxpayer funding and even more from farmers' pockets, we finally have a rare good news story to tell about the Great Barrier Reef. Thanks to an extraordinary effort, we have stopped at least 360,000 tonnes of sediment and large amounts of other agricultural run-off polluting Australia’s most famous…
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Greenpeace launches emergency fact-finding mission on risks to Great Barrier Reef
Press release – 5 December, 2013Brisbane, 6 December 2013 – The largest ship in the Greenpeace fleet has been urgently directed to the Great Barrier Reef coast to investigate the damaging impacts of coal port development and climate change on the Reef.The Esperanza is currently berthed in Brisbane and will depart on Sunday for a…
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No place for dodgy coal companies in Australia
Press release – 14 November, 2013Brisbane, 15 November 2013: Greenpeace is calling on Environment Minister Greg Hunt to rule out allowing Adani to develop its T0 coal terminal in the sensitive Great Barrier Reef and their mega coal mine in the Galilee Basin after new revelations that the company is being investigated by Hunt’s department…
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Abbott’s scorched earth climate policy
Press release – 12 November, 2013Wednesday 13 November, 2013: Greenpeace is accusing the Coalition of running a scorched earth policy on climate change following today’s tabling of legislation to ditch the carbon price despite having no credible alternative.“This government seems hell bent on sowing the fields of Australia with salt,” said Greenpeace Programme Director Ben…
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Premier Newman’s “special treatment” of mining mates must end
Press release – 6 November, 2013Premier Newman announced today that Queensland tax payers would be subsidising Gina Rhinehart, Clive Palmer and two of India’s richest families.Today Premier Newman announced that his government will offer discounted royalty rates for mining companies that move ahead with their planned multibillion-dollar coal projects in the Galilee Basin, exposing the…
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Approval of Galilee mega mine leaves Reef strategy in tatters
Press release – 2 November, 2013Sydney 3rd November 2013: Last Friday evening, the same day Minister for the Environment, Greg Hunt, launched the government’s draft Strategic Assessment of the Great Barrier Reef, the same Minister quietly approved a massive new coal mine that relies on shipping its product through the reef via the controversial Abbot…
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Queensland’s Reef Ports Strategy a big con
Press release – 16 October, 2013The draft Great Barrier Reef Ports Strategy released by the Queensland Government today is an attempt to pull the wool over the eyes of Queenslanders, according to Greenpeace."This policy won’t prevent a single port development proposal and it won’t stop dredging in the Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area," said…
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Expanding coal exports is bad news for Australia and the world
By Brett Parris, Monash University In the coming months our new federal government will be promoting a massive expansion in Australia’s coal exports. In all likelihood they’ll hail it as “good For Australia”. It isn’t. Most of us are familiar with the damage coal mining, export and burning does to the environment. We know it…
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Greenpeace welcomes delay on major new QLD coal mine
Press release – 7 August, 2013Greenpeace today welcomed the decision by federal Environment Minister Mark Butler to postpone for almost 3 months a decision on the massive new Kevin’s Corner coal mine proposed for central Queensland.The mine would be larger than any existing coal mine in Australia and would use over 9 billion litres of…
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Minister receives petitions on Abbot Point and the Reef
Press release – 16 July, 2013Rockhampton, 17 July 2013: Earlier today, Greenpeace climate campaigner, Louise Mathiesson, presented Environment & Climate Change Minister, Mark Butler, with a petition containing the names of 88,297 people who have signed Greenpeace’s petitions calling on the Australian Government to protect the Great Barrier Reef from the threats posed by coal…