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Hundreds rally to oppose brown coal allocation and export from Victoria

Submitted by takver on Thu, 12/12/2013 - 9:55am

Hundreds rallied outside the Victorian Parliament House opposing plans for brown coal allocation and development for a coal export industry from the La Trobe Valley and Gippsland.

Currently 13 billion tonnes of brown coal is being considered for allocation by the Napthine conservative state Government, despite the impact of this in carbon emissions on climate change and increasing temperatures and extreme weather. As well as the allocation of coal licences, $90 million of Federal and State subsidies are also up for grab. Does subsidising brown coal make sense when we should rapidly be transitioning to renewables?

Photos at Quit Coal Campaign Victoria Photoset at Flickr | Youtube Video

Geography: 
Melbourne
Keywords: 
climate change
coal
coal export
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Reversing Victoria's anti-wind farm regulation could boost regional development

Submitted by takver on Sat, 09/03/2013 - 3:59pm

Victoria has a new Premier with Ted Baillieu falling on his own sword, with Denis Napthine, the member for South West Coast, being appointed into the role of Premier of Victoria. Just in time as new economic statistics show that the Victorian economy is in recession. Restoring sanity to planning regulations for wind farm development could boost regional development and the Government's very low environmental credentials as it faces re-election in 2014.

Related: Petition - Let's get Victoria back on track: clean energy, protect our farms

Geography: 
Victoria
Keywords: 
energy
FoE
Wind farms
Environment Victoria
wind power
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