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AGL Loy Yang: A Generator Fault Highlights Fundamental Failure Of Dirty And Unreliable Coal
The announcement that AGL, Australia’s biggest climate polluter, suffered a generator fault at its Loy Yang A coal-burning power station which could cause an outage until 1 August 2022 highlights the risk of running unreliable, dirty coal-burning power stations, Greenpeace Australia Pacific says. In the past five years alone, AGL has spent $1.7 billion on…
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Solar shopping for QLD as Kmart and Bunnings clean up
Retail giants Kmart, Bunnings, Target and Officeworks have inked two new renewable electricity deals with CleanCo, which Greenpeace Australia Pacific says takes Queenslanders one step closer to solar and wind powered shopping.The four retailers, part of the Wesfarmers conglomerate, today announced a long-term deal with Queensland Government-owned renewables company CleanCo to power 147 sites across…
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Greenpeace dumps giant inflatable coal at AGL HQ as new research reveals over half of Aussies would switch off a dirty electricity provider
MELBOURNE, March 28 2022 – Greenpeace Australia Pacific today fronted up at Australia’s biggest climate polluter, AGL’s HQ with a giant inflatable coal to send the message that their climate pollution is too big to hide, as new research shows more than half of Australians would switch off a large polluting electricity provider.Climate activists and…
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Greenpeace statement on new NSW anti-protest laws
Greenpeace Australia Pacific has condemned knee-jerk new anti-protest laws introduced by the NSW State Government as anti-democratic, and indicative of a worrying trend of suppression of protest activity in Australia.The new laws, rushed through by the NSW Government overnight, will see protestors who disrupt traffic on any bridge or tunnel in the Greater Sydney area…
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Communities again paying the price for Morrison’s failure to act on climate warnings
The floods that inundated Australia’s east coast over recent weeks have taken 20 lives, destroyed and damaged thousands of homes and are already estimated to cost the country up to $5 billion. Australia has always experienced damaging climate impacts such as droughts, bushfires and floods. But climate change is making the severity and frequency of…
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AGL’s rejection of takeover bid driven by ideological obsession with coal, locks in environmental and financial failure
SYDNEY, March 7 2022 – AGL’s, Australia’s biggest climate polluter, rejection of a bid by tech entrepreneur Mike Cannon-Brookes and international asset manager Brookfield to buy the company and fast-track its coal closure confirms AGL’s ideological obsession with coal at the cost of the environment and its shareholders, Greenpeace Australia Pacific says.The consortium’s sweetened offer…
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Victorian government’s renewable targets show AGL falls behind the winds of change
SYDNEY, March 4 2022 – The Victoria Government’s announcement of ambitious new offshore wind targets is yet further evidence that AGL’s flimsy excuses for the continued operation of dirty coal-burning power stations, including Loy Yang A, are falling apart, Greenpeace Australia Pacific says.The announcement, which looks to develop 2GW of offshore wind by 2032, 4GW…
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New faces at Great Barrier Foundation won’t reverse the dire course for the Reef
The appointment of an ex-Telstra CEO and a top civil servant to the leadership of the Great Barrier Reef Foundation will do nothing to safeguard the future of the Reef unless the pair can convince their former colleagues in industry and government to rapidly reduce emissions, Greenpeace Australia Pacific says.
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Covid and Christmas used to hide failure to protect Great Barrier Reef
Greenpeace Australia Pacific has slammed the Morrison Government’s decision to release a report on the status of the Great Barrier Reef just days before Christmas when many Australians are distracted by the festive season and surging covid cases.
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REPORT: Scenarios for the Replacement of the Liddell Power Station
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…