environmental

Activists hang from Canberra's Black Mountain Tower in forest protest

Climate action group No Planet B released the statement below on February 15.

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Two people and a banner are suspended from the side of Black Mountain Tower in Canberra as part of a global day of action for Tasmania’s native forests threatened by logging giant Ta Ann.

Film screening: Earthships: new solutions.

Event date: 
Wed, 15/02/2012 - 7:00pm

Capitalism's destructive car mania detailed

Stop Signs: Cars & Capitalism ― On the Road to Economic, Social & Ecological Decay
By Bianca Mugenyi & Yves Engler
RED Publishing & Fernwood Publishing
2011, 259 pages,
$27.95 (pb)

The car, say Canadian authors Bianca Mugyenyi and Yves Engler, who took a bus ride across the United States, is a doomed jalopy going nowhere. It fails, especially in the “home of the car”, on every green count.

Cars are the single largest contributor to US noise pollution and 40,000 people in the US die from car accidents each year (one million across the globe).

NSW government says wind power is unhealthy, but CSG is OK

State planning minister Brad Hazzard released draft guidelines to regulate NSW wind farms in December. The guidelines allow anyone with a residence within two kilometres to veto a wind power project.

If the guidelines become law, this would put the brakes on the wind industry, as the coal seam gas industry bolts ahead.

Peru: Mining conflict heats up

Cajamarca, a town with tragic associations in Peruvian history, is the setting of another devastating imperialist onslaught.

In 1532, a band of Spanish conquistadores ambushed the Inca king Atahualpa in the central plaza of this Andean town.

The brutal spirit of conquista is alive and well in contemporary Cajamarca, in the form of the US-based Newmont mining corporation, an outfit with a slick PR machine and a very dirty environmental and human rights track record.

National Irrigators Council stirs flooding fear

Friends of the Earth Australia released the statement below on February 3.

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Friends of the Earth have refuted claims made today by the National Irrigators Council (NIC) that environment groups want government to deliberately flood people’s homes during the current NSW flooding.

“This absurd statement has no factual basis and reveals a callous desire to exploit fear for political gain,” said Murray-Darling Friends of the Earth Campaigner Jonathan La Nauze.

“We extend our hearts to those people battling floodwaters in NSW and wish them every assistance.

Public forum: what will the wheatbelt rail line closures mean for Kwinana?

Kwinana Recquatic, Cnr Gilmore & Chisham Ave, Kwinana

The closure of the wheatbelt rail lines threatens to dramatically increase the amount of trucks travelling through Kwinana to CBH. Come along to this meeting to find out more.

Speakers

Jane Fuchsbichler, Wheatbelt Railway Retention Alliance
Hon Lynn MacLaren MLC, Member for South Metropolitan Region
Jon Strachan, Fremantle Councillor
Annolies Truman, Road to Rail Campaign
George Crisp, Doctors for the Environment
Mayor Carol Adams, Chair

Hosted by Hon Lynn MacLaren MLC. Organised by Fremantle Road2Rail.

Event date: 
Tue, 21/02/2012 - 6:00pm
Event time: 
Tue, 21/02/2012 - 6:00pm

Fair Share Festival

Meet people who are passionate about strong resilient communities, social justice, sustainability, and innovative social enterprises. Workshops, speakers, stalls, music, entertainment. CONTACT / FIND OUT MORE:
http://fairsharefestival.wordpress.com/
Facebook http://www.facebook.com/FairShareFestival
Phone: Graeme 4921 7241 or Liza Pezzano 4960 0325
graeme.stuart@newcastle.edu.au or lizapezzano@hotmail.com

Event date: 
Fri, 09/03/2012 - 6:30pm - Sun, 11/03/2012 - 3:49pm
Phone: 
Graeme 4921 7241

United States: Big win as tar sands pipeline rejected

In a big win for environmentalists and the planet, the administration of United States President Barack Obama announced on January 20 that it would deny a permit to build the Keystone XL pipeline to transport oil from the Alberta tar sands in Canada.

Anti-tar sands activists in the US and Canada have been seeking to stop the pipeline, planned to transport oil from the Athabasca tar sands in north-east Alberta to refineries in the United States. Mining the Athabasca tar sands is one of the most environmentally destructive practices on the planet.

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