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Featuring Professor David Lindenmayer and members of the Hamer Family
In just two years since the Baillieu government took office, we’ve seen a string of backward steps on significant environmental issues like protection of natural places, native forest logging, climate change and urban sprawl.
November 27
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Twice as much water as Cubbie Station’s giant 460 gigalitre (GL) water entitlement is effectively sent overseas every year in the form of irrigated cotton from the Murray-Darling, according to new research released today by Friends of the Earth.
The analysis compiled Australian government data on annual cotton exports and irrigation water use from 2005 to 2011 and calculates the volume of water embodied in Australia’s export cotton crop.
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HRL wanted to build the first new coal fired power station in Victoria in almost 20 years.
Martin Ferguson, the Federal Minister for Energy and Resources, has announced that the government would be scrapping its $100 million grant to the company because it failed to meet the grant requirements.
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Friends of the Earth and Beyond Zero Emissions present:
Screening of 'Bimblebox', with Q and A with Paola Cassoni, co-owner of the Bimblebox Nature Refuge which is threatened by Clive Palmer's China First coal mine.
Monday, September 10.
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Please support ouranti nuclear campaign by coming along to our annual Art Auction Fundraiser.
Sunday 16th September 2012 @ Hogan Gallery, 310 Smith Street, Collingwood
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This night will feature tales of anti-coal communities, resistance and creativity from near and afar.
Featuring:
- Drew Hutton, Lock the Gate Alliance.
- all the way from Canada, Saku, a mining-justice campaigner and member of the talented Beehive Collective and Testament, author and hip hop artist.
- Julien Vincent will outline the new Friends of the Earth campaign called Market Forces.
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Check for for our opening hours over the summer break.
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There is currently a proposal from Mantle Mining for an exploration permit to look for coal over the township of Mirboo North in Gippsland.
After an enormous turn out at the community meeting on Sunday 22 July, hundreds of objection letters were written by locals.
We have until August 6 to send in objections. Please check here for updates on the campaign and how to send an objection.
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If Premier Baillieu delivers on his election promise to introduce a Container Deposit System for Victoria it will virtually eliminate container litter, create more than 600 new jobs, and save rate payers and Councils millions of dollars a year.
Please attend our event at Victoria's Parliament House on August 15 to show your support.
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