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Combet cool on Hazelwood closure

Submitted by takver on Wed, 13/10/2010 - 11:59pm

Hundreds of activists travelled to the Hazelwood brown coal fired power station, 180 km east of Melbourne, for the 101010 global work party on Sunday.

Environmental groups in Victoria are behind a campaign to replace the aging Hazelwood power station with renewable energy. Premier John Brumby wants to close the power station down in stages and wants Federal Government financial assistance in doing so. But the new Federal climate change minister Greg Combet is decidedly cool on the idea.

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Coal is a dead end! Community demonstration at HRL office with mock 'clean coal' technology launch

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Tue, 05/10/2010 - 10:27am

Today members of the Cross Campus Environment Network (CCEN) held a demonstration at the Melbourne office of HRL with the mock launch of a new 'clean coal' technology. The building went into lock-down when the protesters arrived at the steps of the office with a ramshackle 'state-of-the-art' coal cleaning machine.

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Victorian government launches funding for community climate projects

Submitted by takver on Wed, 29/09/2010 - 6:01pm

The Victorian State Government has just announced grants for the community greenhouse programs for local community action on climate change. The O'Hea Biketown Project in North Coburg was used as the flagship for the launch of the program by Victorian Climate Change Minister Gavin Jennings at CERES environmental park in Brunswick today.

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Environmentalists: Fuel emission reduction policy well behind world's best practice

Submitted by takver on Sun, 25/07/2010 - 1:34pm

Policy Plans released by Julia Gillard and her Climate Change Minister Penny Wong for mandatory fuel efficiency standards and a $2000 rebate for trading in pre-1995 cars for new fuel efficient vehicles, were cautiously welcomed by environmentalists while being criticised for not going far enough and being funded by cuts to other climate change action programs such as Carbon Capture and Storage and solar energy. "Under this plan, Australia's fuel efficiency standards for new vehicles will be about a quarter of a century behind China's when they are eventually law. We must make our cars cleaner quicker." said Don Henry, Australian Conservation Foundation executive director.

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European Climate Exchange website hacked

Submitted by takver on Sun, 25/07/2010 - 3:29am

In a protest against carbon trading as a method for acting on climate change, on Friday, July 23 at just before midnight, the public website of the European Climate Exchange (ECX), the leading marketplace for trading CO2 emissions in Europe, was targetted by hacktivists of the autonomous tech collective *decocidio* (#?).

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Call for Gillard to install solar panels on the Lodge

Submitted by takver on Sun, 11/07/2010 - 3:58am

The international climate activist organisation - 350.org - has launched a campaign for Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard to install solar panels on The Lodge. It has called for leaders of nations to instal solar panels on official residences, as part of global action on climate change on 10/10/10.

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Two climate prisoners released but still facing charges

Submitted by takver on Tue, 05/01/2010 - 8:45am

Climate activists Australian Natasha Verco and American citizen Noah Daniel Weiss were released from a Copenhagen prison but are still facing charges of attempted assault of a police officer and planning to disturb public order. Their case has been adjourned until March 16.

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Australian Greens Senator Christine Milne talks about the COP15 negotiations

Submitted by EngageMedia on Sun, 13/12/2009 - 11:34am

Video at http://www.engagemedia.org/Members/ebraham/videos/christine_milne.mp4/view

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Report assesses climate risks of sea level rise for Australia

Submitted by takver on Sun, 15/11/2009 - 1:11am

A new report published by the Australian Government - Climate Change Risks to Australia's Coasts povides a risk assessment of climate change and rising sea level to Austrlian coastal communities. The report shows between 157,000 to 247,600 existing residential buildings will be at risk from sea inundation by 2100, under a sea-level rise scenario of 1.1 metres.

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Peter Garrett: 'beds are burning' protest - Melbourne 12 November 09

Submitted by peter on Thu, 12/11/2009 - 12:37pm

The Minister for the Environment, Heritage and the Arts was in town to deliver a speech on energy saving, but environmentalists staged a welcome designed to remind him of speeches he delivered before he joined the ALP, in the days when he vigourously and vocally opposed policies he now defends ...

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