If you have events you would like listed, please email details to Cam: cam.walker@foe.org.au

CURRENT EVENTS

NB: we are now listing upcoming events on our CSG facebook page, available here.

RICH LAND, WASTE LAND

How coal is killing Australia

For nearly a year Sharyn Munro travelled through rural
Australia, visiting the communities in the coal-mining areas. She found a
war zone. Here, ‘at the coalface’, towns and districts are
dying — homeowners and farmers forced out by mining, broken in spirit
and in health, or else under threat, in limbo and battling the might of
the multinationals. Incidences of asthma, cancers and heart attacks show
alarming spikes in communities close to coal mines and coal power
stations, yet the government seems powerless (or unwilling) to act.

'Rich land, waste land' is a result of these travels.

She is doing a series of book launches in regional Victoria. Deatils below.

 

Sun 10 June 3-4pm	Edendale Farm Gastons Lane Eltham	Author Talk (now shared with Peter Ralph)	Eltham Bookshop Contact – Meera: 03 94398700 elthambookshop@bigpond.com	Cost $5.00 includes light refreshments Bookings essential Ph: 03 94398700
Mon 11 June 3-5pm	3MDR	Interview in studio	Ann Creber
Tues 12 June 12.30pm	Healesville Library 110 River street Healesville VIC	Library Talk	Sharon Waller – Branch Manager 03 5962 4423 Organised by Janet Nolan – ERL Janet.nolan@erl.vic.gov.au	Books to be sold by Collins
Wed 13 June 7.30pm	Moorabool Environment Group Bacchus Marsh Public Hall -  Supper Room  197-215 Main Street Bacchus Marsh, Victoria	Talk	Deb Porter deborahfporter@gmail.com
Sat 16 June 12noon – 1.30pm	South Gippsland Action Group Inverloch Community Hub 16 A’Beckett Street Inverloch  VIC	Talk	Stavroula O’Reilly	Gold coin donation appreciated.   Books being sold by the Inverloch Conservation Group – contact Noreen Matier
Mon 18 June 10.20am	ABC Gippsland Sale Studio	Radio Interview	Jennifer Henderson 03 5143 5536 Henderson.jennifer@abc.net.au
Mon 18 June 6.30pm	Collins Sale Duart Homestead	Dinner/Talk	Liz – Collins Sale – 03 5144 6262 collinssale@bigpond.com	with Wellington Sustainability Group

 

COAL SEAM GAS MINING INFORMATION SESSION

Sunday 3 June, 2012.  10.30am Tarwin Lower Hall

South
Gippsland Shire Council in association with the Friends of Venus Bay Peninsula
Inc., Tarwin Landcare Group, Friends of Cape Liptrap Peninsula, Tarwin Lower
Venus Bay Association and South Gippsland Landcare Network, issue an open
invitation to attend an information session relating to the Exploration Licence
Application by Leichhardt Resources Pty Ltd ( EL5416) lodged with the
Department of Primary Industries on 22/2/12 
to conduct exploration for Coal Bed Methane, also known as Coal Seam
Gas, and Brown or Black Coal, in South Gippsland and Bass Coast Shires.

Chair:
Cr Kieran Kennedy

Guest
speakers:

Cam
Walker - Friends of The Earth will
present the Science of CSG

Merryn
Redenbach - Doctors for the
Environment will present on public health and environmental impacts.

Michael
Power - The Environmental
Defenders Office Victoria will present on the legal rights of Landowners and
Mining Companies and law reform.

 

 

 

Gasland screening, Melbourne,18/1/12

hi all
there will be a screening of Gasland TOMORROW (wed Jan 18): It's at 7:30 PM in North Fitzroy, at LongPlay, 318 St Georges Rd.

It's free (donations accepted) but space is somewhat limited so people
need to RSVP to me at this e-mail (melaniesluyter@nyu.edu) or by phone
(0412386799).

Its being organised by Melanie Sluyter who is
visiting Melbourne from NYC where she has been involved with the
anti-fracking movement.

 

EDO Seminar Series 2011 — Coal seam gas, 27 September

Coal Seam Gas Mining: What are the impacts and how should the industry be regulated?

Tuesday 27 September 2011, 5.45pm–7.30pm

Coal seam gas (CSG) extraction, which has been the subject of recent controversy in Queensland and NSW, is on its way to Victoria. The seminar will explain how the process works and what the environmental impacts are. It will also look at the Queensland experience, to provide a basis for discussing how CSG developments should proceed in Victoria.

Speakers:

* Peter Stone, CSIRO
* Cam Walker, Friends of the Earth
* Sean Ryan, EDO Queensland

RSVPs are essential: EDO Victoria (03) 8341 3100 or edovic@edo.org.au.

PREVIOUS EVENTS

Info night on CSG, Sept 16

Forrest Hall

Otway Ranges Climate Action (ORCA) and a group of very concerned
residents in Forrest are organising an information session on Coal Seam
Gas Extraction: what it is; the dangers; landowners legal rights; and
other issues.

This Information Session will be held on Friday 16 September at the
Forrest Public Hall at 7.00 pm. So come along if you are even the
slightest bit concerned about the implications of this sort of mining
happening in our region.

Our water and farmland are precious resources, which can’t be replaced if
damaged. Our lives depend on both.

Further information: magaerlennox@gmail.com

(a FoE campaigner will be speaking at this event)

 

Gasland film showing

Hub Melbourne, wed August 31

‘Gasland’, the award winning US documentary on coal-seam gas and
'fracking', screening at Active Cinema, Hub Melbourne, with special
guest speaker Cam Walker from Friends of the Earth, currently on tour
‘Calling for the Victorian government to ban coal-seam mining’. Get
informed globally, and inspired to action locally.

Active Cinema is a monthly film and discussion night on the power of
film and social media for action, @ Hub Melbourne, Level 3, 673 Bourke
St, Melbourne, 6.30pm, $10, Hub Members free. Join us on Facebook:
http://www.facebook.com/groups/activecinema/