In an act of environmental vandalism U.S. multi-national Alcoa has signed a deal to purchase brown coal powered electricity from Loy Yang Power from their power stations in Geelong and Portland both fired by extremely dirty brown coal.
About 50 people attended a rally Saturday 23 January 2010 on the Victorian parliament house steps to Save Solar Systems and build the Mildura Solar Thermal Power Plant.
Related: Save Solar Systems Blog | Photos by Takver | Melbourne Protests
Logging in controversial old growth forest in the Bonang River area has halted again today, with a tree platform attached to logging machinery preventing work.
Protestors have been denied water with police emptying 20L bottles of water on a Total Fire Ban day, where there are no waterpoints in close proximity to the coupe.
'FORESTS FOREVER' EASTER ECOLOGY CAMP
2nd – 5th April 2010
20th January, 6:30-9:00
Cowes Cultural Centre
(91 - 97 Thompson Ave, Cowes)
Calling all women, men, teens, adults, parents, healthcare professionals, and residents of the Bass Coast Shire.
One in seven girls between 12 and 20 will be the victim of sexual assault or rape. At least 200 women are sexually assaulted every day in Australia.
The topic of how best to protect women from these crimes is often discussed. However, an equally important question is how we can prevent these crimes from occurring and the attitudes behind them developing in the first place.
"Cowes Forum about Sexual Assault and Rape" on Wednesday, January 20 at 6:30pm.
Event: Cowes Forum about Sexual Assault and Rape
What: Workshop
Start Time: Wednesday, January 20 at 6:30pm
End Time: Wednesday, January 20 at 9:30pm
Where: Cowes Cultural Centre, 91 - 97 Thompson Ave, Cowes, Phillip Island
To see more details and RSVP, follow the link below:
http://www.facebook.com/n/?event.php&eid=217783459262&mid=1a3d220G21455b...
http://anarchofemme.wordpress.com/2009/11/03/rape-culture-and-victim-bla...
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Victoria Police have handed over information on Desalination protesters to AquaSure, made up of international and local companies Degremont, Suez Environment, Thiess and Macquarie Capital Group. The 20 page Memorandum of Understanding was signed on August 28 by the Department of Sustainability and Environment, Victoria Police and AquaSure. Victoria Police have said it was routine for police to sign such deals with organisations building big public projects where there were potential security risks.
Some 25 people stood around a monument in Ballarat in the pre-dawn hours of December 3 aknowledging the Eureka Diggers who fought and died to defend our rights and liberties one hundred and fifty five years ago.
Did Privitization kill 121 people on Black Saturday? The power line implicated in the deadliest blaze of the day was faulty. It was checked by a linesman working for the contractors UAM, who worked for the Singaporean private power wholesaler SP Austnet. The fragmentation of knowledge, skills and responsibility under privitization, combined with the drive for cost reduction may have helped kill people on Black Saturday.
Community and environment groups today started a 100km walk from Sorrento to Port Melbourne around Port Phillip Bay, to raise awareness about climate change and rising sea levels in Victoria and around the world. Markers were placed along the way to show where the sea level will rise to by the end of the century if efforts to reduce greenhouse gas pollution do not happen immediately.
