Climate Change Media Releases
- Backwards March calls on Premier Baillieu to change direction on environment - November 14, 2011
- Bimblebox Nature Refuge protest comes to Queensland Parliament House - October 26, 2011
- Huge dirty coal mine planned for Cape York - August 16, 2011
- Carbon plan good for forests and nature - July 10, 2011
- Cheap Climate Change Solution - May 24, 2011
- Stopping logging most effective way to cut emissions - May 23, 2011
- The Wilderness Society welcomes freeze on NSW mining developments - May 20, 2011
- Massive Coal Seam Gas Development Planned in the Pilliga Scrub - April 20, 2011
- Our oceans targeted by world's biggest oil and gas companies - April 10, 2011
- Hunter Environment under threat from Coal and Gas - March 09, 2011
Over 1000 Victorians are expected to march backwards from Parliament House today to highlight the direction the Baillieu Government is taking Victoria on the environment and climate change.
“The case of Bimblebox demonstrates the need to urgently protect nature refuges from destructive mining. The Bligh Government can not claim to be increasing Queensland’s protected area estate through nature refuge agreements when it is clear to all that it’s still open-slather for the mining industry,”
While conservationists, Traditional Owners and parts of the Queensland Government have been working towards a World Heritage listing for stunning Cape York Peninsula, mining companies are attempting to turn the region into a giant dirty coal mine, threatening whole ecosystems and the Great Barrier Reef.
The Wilderness Society welcomed key elements of today’s carbon price plan, particularly those ruling out the burning of native forests to produce ‘renewable energy’ and the creation of a $1 billion fund to protect carbon held in nature.
Protecting Australia’s native forests is a far cheaper and practical way to reduce greenhouse gas emissions than planting new forests, the Wilderness Society said today.
The Wilderness Society today welcomed the Climate Commission's analysis that protecting forests is an important policy measure for Governments to embrace to combat climate change.
The Wilderness Society has today welcomed the announcement of a 60-day moratorium on mining developments in NSW while a stakeholder panel has been set up to investigate the true impacts of coal on our natural environment and local communities.
Eastern Star Gas has applied for approval from the Federal Government under the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act to develop a massive coal seam gas field in the Pilliga Scrub, near Narrabri in northern NSW. “This is the first time that a major coal seam gas production proposal has targeted bushland in NSW and it will have massive environmental impacts."
Areas in the pristine Kimberley, and close to Ningaloo Reef, Shark Bay and the Abrolhos Islands have all been chosen by the Federal Government for targeting by the world’s biggest oil and gas companies. It is the biggest acreage release in a decade.
The Wilderness Society Newcastle has called for sweeping changes to how the environmental impacts of coal and coal seam gas developments are addressed, at a Coal and Gas Strategy meeting held yesterday in Singleton.
