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TRU energy profits from polluting

Submitted by Flowerpower on Sat, 06/03/2010 - 1:26pm

TRU energy which owns Yallourn Power station in the Latrobe Valley enjoyed a large rise in profits last year up 22% to $A105.8 million. This money goes to the shareholders in TRU energies parent company CLP (China Light and Power) a Hong Kong based mult-national. The profits according to the Age come largely off the back of record output from the carbon belching brown coal electricity generator Yallourn in the Latrobe Valley.

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Deal to power Alcoa smelter with brown coal to 2036

Submitted by Flowerpower on Tue, 02/03/2010 - 9:00pm

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.

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World's largest coal mine another nail in the coffin of climate change

Submitted by takver on Mon, 08/02/2010 - 2:29am

Friends of the Earth have described the proposed Waratah Coal Galilee mine, the world's largest coal mine, as another nail into the coffin of our climate. Waratah Coal's Clive Palmer and Queensland Premier Anna Bligh jointly announced on February 7, 2010 the progression of what would be the world's largest coal mine, having struck a multi-billion dollar deal which would see a twenty year supply of coal to Chinese power-stations.

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'Rebranding' a pollie - correcting the Brumby Government's image. Climate action 3 February

Submitted by peter on Thu, 04/02/2010 - 11:29am

Climate activist groups Beyond Zero Emissions and YCAN (Yarra Climate Action Now! are planning to hold weekly ‘rebranding’ sessions outside the office of Labor State Minister Richard Wynne all the way up to the election in November – “or until the Brumby Government implements some decent climate crisis policies!” Six similar actions were held last year, and this was the first of 2010.

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Mildura solar power plant languishes while coal gets funding

Submitted by takver on Sun, 24/01/2010 - 12:06am

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.

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Queensland climate change minister spins climate destruction of Great Barrier Reef

Submitted by takver on Mon, 28/12/2009 - 4:02pm

In December Kate Jones, the Queensland Climate Change Minister, stated "Queenslanders are by per capita the highest emitters of carbon in the world." and said the Queensland Government was "committed to world action on climate change." Spoken at the Copenhagen climate talks on December 15, they illuminate the greenwashing, spin and hypocrisy that our politicians are engaging in.

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Newcastle: activists blockade coal terminal in response to Copenhagen failure

Submitted by takver on Sun, 20/12/2009 - 1:18pm

Forty climate activists have closed down the rail line into the world's biggest coal port this morning, (Sunday December 20) protesting the failure of the UN climate talks in Copenhagen to produce a just, effective, and legally binding treaty.

Twenty five of the diverse group - aged from 19 to 86 years and including a Buddhist priest, and an elected local councillor - are occupying a rail bridge in Newcastle, Australia, and refusing to leave. They have hung large banners reading "Greed wrecked Copenhagen: Now it's up to us all", and "You could have done something great."

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Can Perth become the first geothermally cooled city?

Submitted by takver on Mon, 07/12/2009 - 12:04am

While the world debates emissions targets and climate funding amounts for developing countries in Copenhagen, a new research centre was launched in Perth on December 3 dedicated to developing technologies designed to help establish sustainable, low-emission, geothermal cities. At the same time the State Government is planning to double the number of coal-fired power stations at Collie.

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Coal protestors appealing damages order over Brisbane climate direct action

Submitted by takver on Mon, 23/11/2009 - 9:33pm

Two climate protesters were sentenced today in Brisbane and ordered to pay damages of over $3000 to Queensland Bulk Handling Corporation after a protest at the Brisbane coal port in October where they halted coal loading and had to be cut free of port infrastructure.

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Address to "Switch Off Hazelwood" Climate Protest at Hazelwood Power Station, in Morwell, Victoria, by Dr Merryn Redenbach

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Mon, 14/09/2009 - 2:32pm

On Sunday 13th September, after an overnight climate camp in Morwell, Victoria, five hundred protesters gathered outside Hazelwood coal fired power station. Hazelwood is one of the developed world's most polluting power stations. Among the five speakers to the rally, Dr Merryn Redenbach, a paediatric doctor and one of the protest organizers, spoke about the impacts of climate change and why the protesters were willing to risk arrest for trespass to promote the transition to renewable energy and closing down coal fired power stations.

ADDRESS TO "SWITCH OFF HAZELWOOD"

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