'Threatened Species Protection Unit' steps in between endangered species and...
Thursday 20 February, 2014: Greenpeace’s ‘Threatened Species Protection Unit’ has entered the Leard State Forest – proposed site for the controversial Maules Creek coal mine - to document endangered...
View ArticleAnother company withdraws from Australia’s Abbot Point coal port expansion:...
Brisbane, Australia 26 February 2014. One of the world’s largest infrastructure developers, Lend Lease has announced that it has pulled out of the highly contentious AP-X coal terminal at Abbot Point...
View ArticleClean up Australia Day: Boomerang Alliance demands action on Cash for Containers
With Clean Up Australia Day tomorrow (Sunday 2 March), the Boomerang Alliance, consisting of 27 environment groups including Clean Up Australia, Greenpeace and the Total Environment Centre, are calling...
View ArticleIconic Maules Creek campaign gets boost with national group CEOs pledging...
Monday 10 February 2014: In a dramatic upscaling of events, a coalition has been formed to prevent Mark Vaile’s Whitehaven Coal, from destroying the last remaining forest of its kind and to stop the...
View ArticleGreenpeace Arctic 30 Australian Colin Russell returns home to Tassie
Sydney 3 January 2014: Last night at 22.55, Tasmanian Colin Russell touched down in Hobart after spending more than 100 days in Russian captivity following a peaceful protest by Greenpeace in the...
View ArticleIconic Maules Creek campaign gets boost with national group CEOs pledging...
Monday 10 February 2014: In a dramatic upscaling of events, a coalition has been formed to prevent Mark Vaile’s Whitehaven Coal, from destroying the last remaining forest of its kind and to stop the...
View ArticleNSW Govt Community Cabinet @ Casula: Campaign for Cash 4 Containers
With NSW’s commitment to a 10c Cash for Containers recycling scheme set to be decided within a matter of days, and all Environment Ministers due to meet to discuss it in April, local residents and...
View ArticleNSW Premier Baird should sidestep lobbyists and commit to Cash for Containers
In advance of a meeting today of all Environment Ministers set to consider a 10 cent cash for containers scheme, a coalition of 28 environment groups, including Clean Up Australia and Greenpeace, are...
View ArticlePublic thirst for Cash for Containers leads governments into voter danger
The Boomerang Alliance, a coalition of 28 environment groups, says the continued lack of action at a national or state level on cash for containers after a meeting of Environment Ministers on Tuesday,...
View ArticleGreenpeace ‘Arctic 30’ activists trying to block Russian Arctic oil tanker in...
Rotterdam/Sydney, 1st of May 2014 - A group of 80 activists supported by the Greenpeace flagship Rainbow Warrior are attempting to stop the oil tanker Mikhail Ulyanov from delivering the first oil from...
View ArticleQLD Government decision to approve Carmichael mine damages climate,...
Sydney, 8 May 2014: The Queensland government’s approval of the Carmichael coal and rail development, set to be one of the largest single coal mines in the world, is a bankrupt decision which will...
View ArticleNSW Govt Community Cabinet @ Casula: Campaign for Cash 4 Containers
With NSW’s commitment to a 10c Cash for Containers recycling scheme set to be decided within a matter of days, and all Environment Ministers due to meet to discuss it in April, local residents and...
View ArticleCoal industry gets preferential treatment from Baird government
Sydney, Thursday 15 May 2014The new Ministers for Environment and Planning in NSW – Rob Stokes and Pru Goward - are continuing the pattern of preferential treatment for the coal industry by weakening...
View ArticlePort authority should withdraw application to dump dredge spoil on WW2 plane...
Greenpeace is today calling on North Queensland Bulk Ports (NQBP) to withdraw its application for a permit to dump 3-million cubic metres of dredge spoil near a WW2 plane wreck where 14 servicemen lost...
View ArticleDeutsche Bank pulls funding for coal ports on Great Barrier Reef
Germany, 23 May 2014: The Australian Environment Minister has been put on notice, says Greenpeace, after one of the world’s largest banks, Deutsche Bank, pulled back from funding Abbot Point coal...
View ArticleActivists halt Whitehaven’s ‘gentle’ bulldozers
30 May, 2014 Sydney/Maules Creek: Greenpeace has today intervened to stop Whitehaven Coal controversially razing Leard State Forest. This afternoon at 13.00, a number of activists entered the...
View ArticleWhitehaven Coal thwarted as fresh activists step in to stop forest clearing
Maules Creek, NSW, Monday 2 June 2014: As tree-climbing activists hinder bulldozing for the fourth day in a row, Greenpeace is calling on the NSW Government to urgently stop forest clearing in the...
View ArticleMEDIA ALERT: Snap mass rally to halt bulldozing of Leard Forest for coal mine
On the eve of World Environment Day, a coalition of national environment groups, Labor and Greens MPs and farmers hold snap rally to protest bulldozing of the Leard State Forest by Whitehaven Coal....
View ArticleGreenpeace sends in the airforce to bear witness to Leard Forest mine...
Maules Creek, NSW: Today, two motorised para-gliders have taken to the sky above the Leard State Forest. The gliders are filming the devastation left in the wake of Whitehaven Coal’s bulldozing of...
View ArticleNew Factory Trawler Could Slip into Australia Under Net Of Secrecy
Conservation groups have raised the alarm that more large freezer factory trawlers, including one flying a flag of convenience, could be fishing in Australian waters within weeks without any public...
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