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Please have your say about Verdant Earth Technologies’ plan to convert Redbank coal fired power plant (which closed in 2014) to a wood fired power plant. If approved it will generate 2 million tonnes of C02 each year. It would also result in increased forest logging and destruction of the habitat of threatened species. ItContinue reading “Plans to convert coal fired power plant to wood”

Our federal pollies need a big push to take urgent action on climate change. This week let’s give pen pushing a new meaning and get handwritten letters flying across the country.

It’s been a long battle against Whitehaven’s climate wrecking new mines in northern NSW and in the Bowen Basin in Queensland.  The company’s mine in the Leard State Forest at Maules Creek demonstrates their environmental vandalism, water thieving and lack of care for regulations.

The Western Australian government has a draft plan to allow many billions of litres of ground and surface water to be taken by irrigators from the Martuwarra Fitzroy River at its catchment.