Greenpeace/TEC launch Green Electricity Guide - ranks power companies,...
A new, independent online Green Electricity Guide, produced by Greenpeace Australia and the Total Environment Centre, provides a state by state ranking of electricity retailers against seven criteria,...
View ArticleTime for Abbott to Renew his Thinking on Electricity
Following news today that the Prime Minister’s hand-picked Review Panel has recommended options including scaling back or abolishing Australia’s Renewable Energy Target, Greenpeace is calling on the...
View ArticleReaction to reports that dumping on Great Barrier Reef abandoned: Hunt should...
Sydney, 02 September 2014: Greenpeace has cautiously welcomed reports that coal port developers have abandoned plans to dump dredge waste from Abbot Point in the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park.“If...
View ArticleQueensland taxpayers should not foot bill for Reef destruction
Greenpeace is alarmed by reports that the Queensland Government is proposing to buy dredge waste from Reef destruction at Abbot Point.It is reported that the Queensland Government plans to use the...
View ArticleCommunity groups representing 2.2 million Australians target Big Banks over...
Australian NGOs representing 2.2 million Australians have today written to ANZ, Westpac, the Commonwealth Bank, and NAB asking them to stop investing in large coal and port expansion projects that will...
View ArticleNew polling shows need for extreme weather levy
Sydney 3rd September, 2014. Polling conducted by Lonergan Research reveals Australians have made the link between the increase in extreme weather events and the real threat of rising insurance...
View ArticleLeard Alliance call for investigation into safety at Whitehaven’s Maules...
MAULES CREEK/Sydney, 17 September 2014 – The Leard Forest Alliance and activists at the Leard Blockade camp have called for an immediate police investigation into alleged interference with mine fuses...
View ArticleGreenpeace builds coal mine at Sydney Uni: slams Whitehaven investment
Sydney, Thursday 18 September 2014: University of Sydney students were surprised to find their campus was ‘closed for coal mining’ this morning when Greenpeace activists disguised as Whitehaven Coal...
View ArticleReaction to reports that dumping on Great Barrier Reef abandoned: Hunt should...
Sydney, 02 September 2014: Greenpeace has cautiously welcomed reports that coal port developers have abandoned plans to dump dredge waste from Abbot Point in the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park.“If...
View ArticleSuper trawlers back in Australia unless Government steps in
Sydney, 2 October 2014: Greenpeace is urgently calling for action by the Australian Government to permanently ban super trawlers before the current two-year ban ends on November 18, 2014.The call...
View ArticleMan-made heat waves demand urgent action
Sydney 1st October, 2014. Following the publication of Australian research concluding that it was ‘virtually impossible’ for the 2013 heatwaves in Australia to have taken place without human-caused...
View ArticleLEGO ends 50 year link with Shell, after one million people respond to Save...
Friday 10 october, 2014: Following a Greenpeace campaign, LEGO published a statement [1] this morning committing to ‘not renew the co-promotion contract with Shell’. This decision comes a month after...
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...
View ArticleReaction to reports that dumping on Great Barrier Reef abandoned: Hunt should...
Sydney, 02 September 2014: Greenpeace has cautiously welcomed reports that coal port developers have abandoned plans to dump dredge waste from Abbot Point in the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park.“If...
View ArticleQueensland taxpayers should not foot bill for Reef destruction
Greenpeace is alarmed by reports that the Queensland Government is proposing to buy dredge waste from Reef destruction at Abbot Point.It is reported that the Queensland Government plans to use the...
View ArticleLEGO ends 50 year link with Shell, after one million people respond to Save...
Friday 10 october, 2014: Following a Greenpeace campaign, LEGO published a statement [1] this morning committing to ‘not renew the co-promotion contract with Shell’. This decision comes a month after...
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Campaign for clearer seafood labelling by top enviro groups, chefs,...
Campaign for clearer seafood labelling by top enviro groups, chefs, academics, celebs16 October 2015. Peak environment groups, top chefs, fishers, academics and celebrities are calling for more...
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...
View ArticleGreenpeace ship Arctic Sunrise to be released by Russian authorities in...
Amsterdam/Sydney 7 June 2014. Russia’s investigative committee (IC), late yesterday Sydney time, informed Greenpeace International that it has annulled the arrest of the ship Arctic Sunrise, which has...
View ArticleWinter clearing stopped as Whitehaven Coal raises the white flag
Sydney, Thursday 12 June 2014: Today, winter clearing at Australia’s most controversial new coal mine – Maules Creek - was stopped after Whitehaven gave the Land and Environment Court an undertaking to...
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