The Bylong Valley Protection Alliance has formally been accepted as part of the court case battling to save a valley near Mudgee, New South Wales, from being destroyed by a huge open-cut coal mine, reports Jim McIlroy.
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Climate protesters organised a snap action inside a lavish foyer of Barangaroo where Marsh Insurance Brokers have its Sydney office聽early on March 5, reports Coral Wynter.
More people are saying 鈥減olitics is broken鈥 and it is not hard to see why. But, as Alex Bainbridge argues, fixing the situation will require breaking the enormous power fossil fuel corporations have over the major parties.
Bullying is never okay, and certainly not from the 鈥渓unatic fringe鈥 inner city or 鈥渟cientists鈥, writes Carlo Sands.
On December 9, Labor leader聽Anthony Albanese reaffirmed聽his聽party鈥檚 support for ongoing coal exports聽which聽make聽this country聽. Absurdly,聽Labor's聽supposed 鈥渃limate action鈥 wing, the Labor Environment Action Network (LEAN), backed Albanese and attacked the Greens for questioning聽Labor's climate credentials.
The Alternative Liberal Party under 鈥渃limate champion鈥 supports Australia maintaining its status as the . No surprise there,聽unfortunately.
Farmers have lost an appeal to stop a coal mine extension in the Darling Downs, but they haven't given up.
Regarding the Land Court's聽2017 recommendation to refuse the Stage 3 expansion of the New Acland coal mine, Queensland's Court of Appeal decided on September 10 that it does not have the power to consider groundwater quantity impacts when hearing mining objections.
In spite of Adani Australia CEO Lucas Dow鈥檚 claim last year that the corporate energy giant did not require a cent, the company looks set to sign off on a secret royalty deal with the Queensland government.
Adani will receive a $900-million-seven-year low interest royalty capital subsidy on September 30. This will mean Queensland will not receive a royalty return from Adani鈥檚 mine for years.
The campaigning efforts of local farmers and environmentalists were rewarded on September 18 when the NSW Independent Planning Commission (IPC) rejected South Korean company Kepco鈥檚 bid to build a new thermal coalmine in the Bylong Valley, near Mudgee, in central NSW.
Protesters blocked entry to the work site for Adani鈥檚 controversial Carmichael coalmine, in the Galilee Basin in Central Queensland, for several hours on September 18.
Coral Wynter, who had joined the blockade from Sydney, told 91自拍论坛 Weekly: 鈥淲e blocked three gates of Adani鈥檚 workers鈥 camp for four hours, preventing several trucks from entering and leaving the site.鈥
Australia鈥檚 political class is addicted to fossil fuels. We will need to build a people-powered movement capable of proposing and winning clear demands to break that addiction. Zane Alcorn looks at 21 proposals that could pave the way for the kind of just transition away from coal that the current climate emergency demands.
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