Investors in Australian mega coal mine proposal warned of risks
This morning financial analysts across India woke up to find a huge full-page ad aimed squarely at them, warning "don't sink your profits on the Great Barrier Reef." The Asian Financial Times carried a...
View ArticleCoal ports advance on Reef despite UNESCO concerns
Only three weeks after UNESCO issued an urgent warning on the threats to the Great Barrier Reef from industrial development, Federal Environment Minister, Tony Burke, is pushing ahead with the approval...
View ArticleBusiness as usual as Reef fears escalate
Greenpeace today released a list of coal terminal projects that have been able to proceed through the environmental approval process despite United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural...
View ArticleLive action: Greenpeace stops super trawler en route to Australia
Thursday 28 June 2012: Early this morning Greenpeace climbers and divers stopped one of the world’s largest and most destructive super trawlers – the FV Margiris – from leaving its berth in the Dutch...
View ArticleUNESCO puts Burke on notice: Recommends halting coal developments to save the...
Sydney/St Petersburg, Friday 29 June 2012: The World Heritage Committee has put Australia on notice overnight, warning that it may list the Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area as “in danger” unless...
View ArticleGreenpeace welcomes carbon price – but more to do to secure a clean energy...
Sunday 1 July 2012: Greenpeace Australia Pacific today welcomed the coming into force of the carbon price, but warned there is still more to do to ensure Australia moves to a low carbon future and...
View ArticlePolice remove Greenpeace blockage of super trawler
Wednesday 4 July 2012: Last night at around 7pm EST, Dutch police ended the Greenpeace blockage of the Margiris, one of Europe’s largest fishing vessels. For five and a half days Greenpeace activists...
View ArticleGroups want action not closed-door negotiations on Super Trawler
Environment groups have today rejected an offer from Federal Fisheries Minister Joe Ludwig to enter into negotiations with Tasmanian company Seafish as the closed-door negotiations are an attempt to...
View ArticleThousands oppose GVK’s proposed Great Barrier Reef coal terminal
Brisbane, 27th July 2012: Greenpeace has spent the morning personally delivering around 7,000 calling cards from members of the public to Hancock Coal, a subsidiary of Indian conglomerate GVK,...
View ArticleGreenpeace delight at cancelled coal funding
Friday, 27 July 2012: Greenpeace has reacted with delight at the cancellation of $100 million in public funds to a proposed HRL dirty coal-fired power station and is calling on the owners of the...
View ArticleUp for Grabs - Greatest land grab in PNG history exposedUp for Grabs -...
Sydney/PNG, Monday 30 July, 2012: A new report, released today by Greenpeace, details the failings of the Papua New Guinea (PNG) Government and the conflicts of interest that have allowed 5.1 million...
View ArticleGroups’ launch national ‘Stop the Super Trawler’ campaign
Fourteen state and national environment groups today announced the national launch of the ‘Stop the Super Trawler’ campaign. The campaign is calling on the Australian Government to respond to community...
View ArticleSuper trawler threatens coastal communities from Perth to Brisbane
Call for super trawlers to be banned across AustraliaSYDNEY, 6 August 2012: As the Magiris super trawler steams toward Australian waters, Greenpeace has today escalated the issue, calling on the...
View ArticleGreenpeace announces new CEO David Ritter
Sydney, Monday 13 August 2012: Greenpeace is pleased to welcome its new CEO, David Ritter. As a Visiting Fellow at the University of Western Australia and renowned land rights lawyer, David brings a...
View ArticleSuper trawler subsidies revealed
Sydney, Wednesday 22 August 2012: Greenpeace has revealed that the company behind the super trawler Margiris is being heavily subsidised by EU taxpayers. The revelations come amidst a heated political...
View ArticleMega mine approval an environmental catastrophe
23 August 2012: Greenpeace today slammed the approval by Minister Tony Burke of Gina Rinehart’s controversial Alpha Coal Project. If built, it would be as big as any coal mine operating in Australia,...
View ArticleLIVE ACTION: Greenpeace intercepts super trawler, the FV Margiris, off South...
Thursday 30 August, 2012: At 8.45am CST (time in Adelaide) Greenpeace activists on an inflatable boat intercepted the world’s second largest factory fishing trawler, the FV Margiris, and are blocking...
View ArticleOver 55,000 Australians call on Prime Minister to ban super trawlers
Canberra, Monday 10th September 2012: As Melissa Parke, MP, prepared to take her Private Member’s Bill to Labor Caucus today, Greenpeace Head of Program, Ben Pearson, presented her with the signatures...
View ArticleAustralians win back their oceans
Tuesday, September 11, Sydney: Greenpeace congratulated the Gillard government today for showing the courage to prevent the Abel Tasman super trawler fishing in our waters. Greenpeace hailed it as a...
View ArticleThis is a victory for the community
Sydney 13th September, 2012: Greenpeace today welcomed the passage through the House of Representatives of the Bill that will stop the super trawler, Abel Tasman, from plundering our waters.Greenpeace...
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