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March on BHP Billiton - 20 October 2011 - on Day 6 of Occupy Melbourne

Submitted by peter on Fri, 21/10/2011 - 8:21am

On Day 6 of Occupy Melbourne, a number of protesters joined an action by Friends of the Earth ACE collective at the Melbourne Office of BHP Billiton, timed to coincide with the company's London AGM.

Having marched up Swanston Street to chants of ‘BHP BP Shell/ You can all/Go to hell’ and ‘System Change not Climate Change’, and escorted by about ten uniformed police - with at least one not-very-undercover plain clothes officer - protesters arrived at the headquarters to find it protected by even more.

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Rally for renewable energy, jobs and regional communities - Melbourne 29 September 2011

Submitted by peter on Sun, 02/10/2011 - 4:35pm

There were protests on Thursday 29 September in Melbourne,Geelong, Ballarat and Bendigo at the Baillieu government's policies on renewable energy development in Victoria, with the slashing of the solar feed tariff and prohibitive restrictions on the location of new wind farms.

'The laws give landholders the right to veto any wind development within 2 km of a dwelling and ban them completely within 5km from regional cities. Other whole regions like the Macedon Ranges are excluded from any wind farm developments.

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No dump at Muckaty! Protests continue in Martin Ferguson's electorate, 24 February 2011

Submitted by peter on Fri, 25/02/2011 - 11:20am

To mark the one-year anniversary of the announcement of Muckaty in the Northern Territory as the chosen site for a proposed national radioactive waste dump, members of Friends of the Earth ACE (Anti-nuclear and Clean Energy) Collective* toured part of Energy and Resources Minister Martin Ferguson's Batman electorate in search of an alternative dumping ground.

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VCAT knocks back $70 million Eastern Golf Course relocation.

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Sun, 02/01/2011 - 5:14pm

Melbourne Friends of the Earth Press Release: Dec 21 2010
After a 10 day hearing in which 13 experts gave evidence, the Victorian Civil and Adminstrative Tribunal (VCAT) has overturned Council's decision to grant a planning permit to allow a controversial golf course relocation to be built in close proximity to Melbourne's water supply. The Eastern Golf Club has been planning to move from their current location at Doncaster to a new location at Yering for the past few years.

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Muckaty traditional owners visit office of Federal Resources and Energy Minister Martin Ferguson - 26 July

Submitted by peter on Mon, 26/07/2010 - 10:25pm

A group of Traditional Owners from Muckaty are currently in Melbourne in connection with a court challenge to Government plans to build a nuclear waste dump on their land. This morning they attended the launch of a billboard in Northcote funded by supporters of the Australian Conservation Foundation, and this afternoon they followed this up by joining members of Friends of the Earth ACE collective and others outside the office of Federal Resources and Energy Minister Martin Ferguson. They wanted to deliver a letter for the Minister, but the office was locked…

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Nuclear Abolition Day vigil in Melbourne – 4 June 2010

Submitted by peter on Sun, 06/06/2010 - 3:38pm

On the eve of Nuclear Abolition Day ICAN Australia launched a new short video entitled “Who by Fire” based on a retelling of the legend of Prometheus and Pandora displayed in a mural on the wall of the Fire Station Museum on Victoria Parade. Before the screening, which took place at Trades Hall, there was a peace picnic in Parliament Gardens, courtesy of Friends of the Earth ACE Collective, and a live performance of the work interspersed with live music and rap.

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No to brown coal exports - Environmental groups protest at Parliament House

Submitted by peter on Thu, 22/10/2009 - 3:23pm

Environmental groups staged a snap protest at Parliament House today, Thursday October 22, in response to moves by Energy Minister Peter Batchelor to compound the disastrous impact of Victoria's brown coal industry by exporting millions of tonnes of the stuff to India and other developing nations ...

FOE: Community tells Premier: world does not need our dirty coal | Video of Protest |

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