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POLL: Pro-renewable policies emerge as vote-winners in Victorian election
With the polls narrowing as Victorians prepare to cast their ballots in this weekend’s state election, renewable energy has emerged as a key battleground with the victor likely to be…
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REPORT: Crude Intentions
Greenpeace Australia Pacific worked with US oil spill consultant and marine biologist, Professor Richard Steiner, the leading ecologist involved in the cleanup and monitoring of the Exxon Valdez disaster in…
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Pro-renewable policies emerge as vote-winners in this weekend’s Victorian election
MELBOURNE, Nov 21, 2018 – With the polls narrowing as Victorians prepare to cast their ballots in this weekend’s state election, renewable energy has emerged as a key battleground with the victor likely to be a party with strong clean energy policies.Late last week, Greenpeace Australia Pacific commissioned Reachtel to conduct a poll of more…
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Victorian Coalition energy policies to drive highest power prices and pollution levels of major parties: RepuTex analysis
Labor forecast to deliver lowest power prices, Greens to deliver lowest carbon emissionsSYDNEY, Nov 16 – A re-elected Labor government would deliver the steepest reduction in Victorian wholesale electricity prices, while the Greens would oversee the sharpest reduction in carbon pollution, according to a new report by energy market analyst RepuTex. The report, commissioned by…
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Victoria votes: buskers, baristas and clean energy
Buskers and baristas. Grand final fever and the Great Ocean Road. Idiosyncratic facial hair and indecisive weather. Victoria has it all! But with the state set to go to the polls next week, and the future of clean energy and climate action at stake, what do the voters of Victoria really want? What happens when you throw a…
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Emma Thompson: “If we want to save orangutans from extinction we need to save their home”
The first time I saw an orangutan in real life, I nearly peed with fright! I heard a great commotion in the trees above me and there he was, swinging through the branches, his huge plate-shaped face staring down. Rang-tan is the story of a little girl and her orangutan friend forced from her forest…
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Morrison’s Ministry: Friends or foes of the environment?
Over the weekend, we not only got a new PM – we got two new ministers for Environment and Energy. Here’s a rundown of who they are and what we can expect from them. Last week was chaos. Australia has yet again been thrown into turmoil and instability because the Government is not capable of…
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The NEG is dead but Malcolm Turnbull’s leadership is not the only victim
SYDNEY, Aug 22, 2018 – The dogged resistance of ordinary Australians who love renewables has combined with Victoria and other state and territory Labor states to kill off Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull’s renewables-wrecking National Energy Guarantee (NEG).However, the debacle has also exposed the depth of climate denialism within the Coalition, which has once again torn…
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Cheap as chips
The truth about your rising power bills Greenpeace| If you’re anything like me, the arrival of your quarterly electricity bill fills you with dread. For many people around the country, particularly people on low incomes or pensions, every cent counts, and high power prices can mean a choice between eating and keeping the lights on.…