Jim Green

  • Carbon colonialism

    The best excuse that Western corporate polluters and their political allies have devised to justify their efforts to wreck the Kyoto Protocol on greenhouse gas emissions is that it does not mandate reductions in the countries of the

  • GERMANY: Greens betray anti-nuclear movement

    By supporting the March 26-29 shipment of high-level radioactive waste from France to the German town of Gorleben, the German Greens have ditched all four elements of their original platform — environmental sustainability,

  • Corporate greed behind US dumping of greenhouse treaty

    United States President George W. Bush and his administration have been condemned around the world for their March 29 announcement that the US will not ratify the Kyoto Protocol on greenhouse gas emissions. The decision was

  • Rio Tinto changes stance on Jabiluka uranium mine

    Rio Tinto chief executive Leigh Clifford said on March 22 that the company was unlikely to proceed with development of the Jabiluka uranium mine on ground excised from the Kakadu National Park without a significant shift in community

  • Reactor plans hits another hurdle

    The federal government's plan to build a new nuclear research reactor in the southern Sydney suburb of Lucas Heights hit another hurdle on March 15 when a French court banned a ship from unloading 360 spent fuel rods from the existing

  • Rio Tinto may pursue Jabiluka uranium mine

    Multinational mining company Rio Tinto may now decide to complete construction of and then operate the Jabiluka uranium mine in the Northern Territory itself, it was revealed on March 14. For several months Rio Tinto has been

  • Land clearing a political hot potato

    Australia was the sixth largest land-clearing country last year, according to a report released by the Australian Conservation Foundation on March 1. The issue is now a political hot potato. The ACF report, Australian Land Clearing,

  • Friends of the Earth: friends of the revolution?

    In an article published in Green Left Weekly in 1996, Phil Shannon argued that a radical and militant labour movement would pull the environment movement to the left, or at least force many environmentalists to take sides in the class

  • uranium mine opened

    Beverley uranium mine openedThe uranium mine at Beverley in northern South Australia was formally opened on February 21. It is Australia's first new uranium mine since Western Mining Corporation's Olympic Dam opened 12

  • Government back-down on nuclear waste plan

    Federal industry and science minister Nick Minchin announced on February 8 that the Howard government no longer intends to co-locate a store for long-lived intermediate-level radioactive wastes alongside the planned underground dump

  • BHP plans to abandon Ok Tedi mess

    The PNG Environment Watch Group has condemned Australian mining company BHP's plans to pull out of the Ok Tedi copper mine in Papua New Guinea without rehabilitating the site. BHP, which announced a record A$1.43 billion profit for

  • CHINA: Greenhouse science firms

    Government delegates from 99 countries met in Shanghai, China, from January 17-20 to finalise and unanimously approve a report on climate change science, which presents new and deeper evidence of the human impact on the world's weather