The newly formed community听Walyalup Climate Action听drew around 300 people to its inaugural event 鈥 鈥淩eal climate action means no new fossil fuels鈥. Janet Parker reports.
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Protesters demanded听federal Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek intervene to save the Murujuga rock art from being destroyed听in the Burrup Peninsula. Bill Mason reports.
Woodside has no social licence for its Scarborough Gas Project, which threatens to unleash as much as 1.7 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere over its lifetime, writes听Sam Wainwright.
Climate protesters are targeting National Australia Bank for lending billions of dollars to fossil fuel corporations. Coral Wynter reports.
The response to Woodside鈥檚 announcement that it is proceeding with its Scarborough gas field exploitation project has been swift, with protests and direct actions organised in Murujuga and Perth. Sam Wainwright reports.
Scott Morrison is still clinging to a weak emission reduction target of 26鈥28%, set six years ago. At the current rate, we won't reach net zero climate pollution until 2170, argues Jessie de Waal.
Activists were treated to an early-morning raid听by an anti-terrorist outift for听chalking a protest sign against oil and gas giant Woodside Energy, reports 颁丑谤颈蝉听闯别苍办颈苍蝉.
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As protests grow against the military coup in Myanmar,听Australian mining companies are carrying on as if nothing happened, writes Allen Jennings.
"Cool fuel" was the groovy title of the Ed! supplement about natural gas in the April 5 edition of The West Australian that gets distributed to all our schools.
To be sure natural gas is "cool" when liquefied. But nowhere among the topics covered, such as "Careers in LNG", "Power to You" and "West is best" is there any mention of natural gas as a significant contributor to catastrophic global warming. Nor does it mention that because of fugitive emissions in the production cycle natural gas is up there with coal as a carbon polluter.
What do politicians do after leaving parliament to earn a few more dollars? They go and work for gas and coal companies.
鈥 Former Nationals leader and Deputy Prime Minister John Anderson became chair of Eastern Star Gas 鈥 the company behind the Narrabri Gas Project now owned by Santos 鈥 about 2 years after leaving politics.
鈥 Former National's leader and Deputy Prime Minister Mark Vaile became a director and then chair of Whitehaven coal.
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