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Bligh’s Response To Greenpeace Coal Ship Action In Queensland
Greenpeace activists finished their painting just moments before a police boat turned up this morning, with a final tally of 20 ships painted with messages like “Bligh exporting CO2”, “Coal is killing the Reef” and “Stop coal expansion”. While 10 activists were taken into custody by police, Premier Bligh was questioned about the protest in…
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Bangkok Climate Talks
This is the 1st meeting since the Bali talks last Dec. The parties are starting to thrash out the framework and workplan to deliver a 2nd comitment period under the Kyoto Protocol by 2009. There are about 1,000 or so delegates present here in Bangkok, a much smaller number than there was in Bali. Despite…
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Climate change challenge for new Cabinet
So Rudd has chosen his cabinet. And while us greenies will be shining our (energy efficient) spotlights on the new Minister for Climate Change and Water, Penny Wong, and Environment Minister Peter Garrett, it will be up to the whole cabinet to work together to address the most pressing issue of our time. Treasurer Wayne…
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Election eve- some thoughts on where to from here.
On election eve, where are we placed after all the froth and bubble of the campaign? We don’t yet know who’s going to win the election tomorrow night but there are a number of things that we do know: 1) The international science community has released its strongest warning yet that we need to cut…
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Why I stopped the Kooragang coal loader
Hi I’m Kerrie, one of the activists that stopped the Kooragang coal loader in February this year. I grew up in Newcastle and believe that we need to “Quit Coal” and we need to do it now! There is no time to waste as we only have a very small window of opportunity to stop…
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Taking the Prime Minister for a walk…
With John Howard all set to call the election, we rolled out our team of polar bears this morning to trail the Prime Minister on what could be his final morning walk from The Lodge. We were there raise the profile of The Big Switch campaign, the prime web-tool for Australians to express their views…
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Controversial Anvil Hill mine sold to Xstrata
Yesterday’s announcement that Centennial Coal, Australia’s largest independent coal company, has failed in its plan to develop one of the richest coal seams in NSW, is a huge victory for people concerned about climate change as well as concerned locals in the Hunter Valley. The proposed Anvil Hill coal mine has been faced with growing…
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Time ticking away for Howard and Bush
On Wednesday, Greenpeace and Make Poverty History carted two ice sculptures of John Howard and George W. Bush around Sydney, sending a message to that there is little time left to take meaningful action on climate change and calling on both leaders to ratify the Kyoto Protocol. Many developing nations are on the front line…
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Toxic Effect Of A Decade Of Skepticism
One of the most toxic effects of a decade of climate skepticism and Greenie-bashing from the Howard Government has been the impact on the media. Journalists tell stories of pressure from Ministerial advisors and the ‘Greenhouse Mafia’ in industry when they debunk nuclear power, clean coal or talk about the most worrying climate impacts. It…
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Turnbull upstaged by climate victims
We’ve all had days like this. Everything seems fine, you’re working to plan and even hopeful of a 5pm finish when suddenly, someone throws a massive rock in your pond and all plans go completely astray. That’s what happened today, when we got a tip-off that Environment Minister Malcolm Turnbull was on Bondi Beach with…