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Renewables emerge as key battleground in upcoming Victorian election
In just over a month Victoria goes to the polls. What’s at stake, I hear you ask. Nothing more than the future of the renewable energy revolution. |In Waubra, central Victoria, one of Australia’s largest wind turbine farms is currently under construction.| As it stands Victoria is among the states leading the way in the…
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Why I’m campaigning to save the Great Australian Bight
Grazia from Melbourne explains why she is getting more involved with Greenpeace to save the Great Australian Bight || I didn’t know that The Great Australian Bight even existed (pardon my ignorance) until Greenpeace brought it to my attention with the campaign against oil drilling in this incredibly diverse and rich marine region. The Bight…
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Wings of Paradise: Drawing attention to rainforest destruction
After ravaging the forests of Borneo and Sumatra, the palm oil industry has reached the final frontier, Papua, home to these Birds of Paradise. Both the birds and the forest could be lost if we allow these companies to continue. That’s why street artists and volunteers from all over the world, from Melbourne to Taipei…
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Victoria’s investment in renewables a positive step forward but more ambition needed for the planet and prices
SYDNEY, Sept 11, 2018 – The Andrews’ Government support of renewables will lead to the creation of four new wind farms and two solar installations across the state, creating jobs in construction and maintenance while reducing emissions and power prices.This morning Premier Daniel Andrews announced the projects, under the Victorian Renewable Energy Target (VRET), would…
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Another one Bights the dust: Port Lincoln the thirteenth council to move to oppose oil drilling in Southern Ocean
September 4, 2018: Councils representing one third of all voters in South Australia have now moved voted to ban oil drilling in the Great Australian Bight.Last night Port Lincoln council successfully moved a motion to oppose any drilling in the Bight, becoming the thirteenth council to do so. Their decision is yet another blow to…
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Melbourne artists carve ice sculptures of Australian PMs toppled over climate policy
MELBOURNE, Aug 29, 2018 – Melbourne artists commissioned by Greenpeace have carved a spectacular ice sculpture, displaying three large busts of the Australian prime ministers toppled by the fossil fuel industry for acting to prevent climate change.Groups of passers-by stopped to watch as two artists went to work transforming 1m-high blocks of ice, into busts…
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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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Greenpeace congratulates Andrews government plan to save 650,000 Victorian households $890 a year with solar rooftops
SYDNEY, Aug 19, 2018: The Victorian Premier’s plan to subsidise the installation of hundreds of thousands of solar panels on the state’s roofs is an act of climate leadership, and an example of the type of hands-on renewable energy policy that will drive down power prices, in contrast to the Coalition’s do-nothing National Energy Guarantee…
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Labor must reject NEG as weak PM loses control of the Coalition over do-nothing climate policy
SYDNEY, Aug 17, 2018 – With members of the Coalition in open rebellion, talks of ministerial resignations, a leadership coup and the Energy Security Board flagging more last minute changes to the NEG, Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull must abandon this dodgy deal.Yesterday, Queensland MP George Christensen said he could only support the NEG with a…
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No deal! Victoria to go over NEG bill with fine-tooth comb to see what Turnbull has given up to the Coalition’s climate sceptics
SYDNEY, Aug 15, 2018 – Victorian Energy Minister Lily D’Ambrosio said she will thoroughly examine the proposed state bill to legislate the NEG mechanism with a fine tooth comb to see what concessions Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has made to win the begrudging support of the climate sceptics and denialists in the Coalition.Last night, following…