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Gladstone Harbour Dredge Protest: local protestor supported by the courts

Submitted by Cam Walker on Fri, 11/05/2012 - 13:02

MEDIA RELEASE 11 May 2012

Today the Brisbane magistrates court supported the efforts of Gladstone local Mark Discoll in his stand defending the destructive dredging of the Gladstone Harbour in the Great Barrier Reef.

On the 14 March 2012 Gladstone local Mark 'Potts' Driscoll boarded and stopped one of the controversial Gladstone Harbour dredges. Mr Driscoll took action to defend the Great Barrier Reef and Gladstone Harbour from the destructive dredging caused by Queensland's coal seam gas industry.

You can’t eat your fossil fuel cake and be renewable too

Submitted by Cam Walker on Wed, 09/05/2012 - 12:33

Among the many commentaries on the budget, here’s our two cents’  worth as the budget relates to renewable energy and climate action.

First, the big item is that the diesel fuel tax rebate for off-road use has remained. Had this been scrapped or altered, it would have of course raised a lot of revenue from the main users of off-road diesel vehicles: miners and farmers.

Tales from the Front Lines of Activism

Submitted by Cam Walker on Wed, 09/05/2012 - 09:34

Thursday 10th May 6pm

Join June Norman and Six Degrees for the first night of Soup and Stories. June walked the 550km coal seam gas pipeline and coal railway route from Kumburilla in the Darling Downs to Gladstone to meet the UN delegation in March.

Don't miss her tell the story of the journey, a unique insight into the communities at the forefront of climate change.

The event is free. Email shani.tager@archive.foe.org.au to RSVP.

 

At the FoE house, 20 Burke street, Wooloongabba.

Job Opportunity at The Pantry - Retail Assistant

Submitted by Cam Walker on Mon, 07/05/2012 - 11:07

The Pantry is an organic grocery that functions much like a co-­‐op with financial and physical contribution from volunteers in the community.

Based in South Melbourne as part of the FoE Australia project the South Melbourne Commons.

Chain Reaction − latest issue out now

Submitted by Cam Walker on Fri, 04/05/2012 - 13:12

Chain Reaction is the national magazine of Friends of the Earth.

Issue #114 − April 2012 is now available.

To read online, visit www.archive.foe.org.au/chain-reaction

FoE members and supporters should reecive their copy in the mail soon.

Koalas lose to plantation industry in Burke's fauna listings

Submitted by Cam Walker on Tue, 01/05/2012 - 16:09

Monday, 30 April 2012 MEDIA RELEASE

Environmental organisations Friends of the Earth and Friends of Gippsland Bush have slammed Federal Environment Minister Tony Burke's failure to list Gippsland’s Strzelecki Ranges koala as endangered or vulnerable.
 

the FoE major gifts program

Submitted by Cam Walker on Wed, 18/04/2012 - 16:18

Friends of the Earth Australia is largely supported by individual members and supporters, plus philanthropic funding.

In recent years, major donors have started to support our work – with incredible impacts on our work and effectiveness.

FoE prides itself on being a grassroots but nationally networked environmental organisation. It is also remarkably frugal, meaning that the vast majority of funds received go directly into campaigning. Any donations will go a long way and make a real difference to our ability to run effective and strategic campaigns.

Rural and urban Alliance calls on State Government to ban new fossil fuel projects

Submitted by Cam Walker on Thu, 12/04/2012 - 13:48

MEDIA RELEASE Thursday 12 April

Rural and urban Alliance calls on State Government to ban new fossil fuel projects

Victorian government wants more coal – the community wants farmland and clean water

Regulators Fail To Implement Toxic Timber Bans

Submitted by Cam Walker on Mon, 02/04/2012 - 07:09

***PRESS RELEASE***
 

Regulators Fail To Implement Toxic Timber Bans

April 2 2012

Friends of the Earth today criticised the failure of government regulators, both at the national and state level, to list Copper Chrome Arsenate (CCA) as a Restricted Chemical Product [RCP] and for their inability to provide consumers with safety information regarding the dangers of working with treated timber products impregnated with CCA.

Disappointment as Xstrata's Wandoan Coal Mine gets go ahead

Submitted by Cam Walker on Mon, 26/03/2012 - 20:41

Media Release

27 March 2012

 

The Queensland Land Court today recommended that the Wandoan coal mine proceed despite concerns raised by Friends of the Earth about the impacts of burning coal. Friends of the Earth, in a unique challenge to the mine's approval, argued for the outright refusal of the mega coal mine based on climate change impacts.

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