2024 was the busiest year ever for Sydney Knitting Nannas and Friends, and as our group has grown, we were able to cover many events with Nannas reporting back to keep us better informed.
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Wins from 2024
Here’s a selection of stories from Nanna Good News to remind us that a lot was achieved by the climate and environment movement in 2024. Nannas are also pleased about the movement’s growing numbers and increasing coordination and diversity.
Nannas Festive Season Video
Sydney Knitting Nannas and Friends wish all our readers a fun, safe Festive Season and we thank you for your support – it really does help. We had a lot of fun making our annual festive season video a couple of weeks ago and want to share it with you now.
Nanna News 16 Dec 2024
This week’s news: Nanna fined in court for protecting a forest, a snap action at the PM’s office, Campbelltown Council votes to protect koalas, reports from nuclear hearings in Lithgow and Sydney, and more.
Don’t Frack the Kimberley
Black Mountain Energy plans to frack the heart of the Kimberley – using two billion litres of groundwater, risking endangered species and polluting the Fitzroy River.
Good News 13 December
This is the last Good News for 2024 as Nannas prepare for the festive season. We will be back mid January 2025, hopefully with lots more good news. Stay safe and we’ll see you in the New Year.
Help Narrabri Lateral Pipeline be assessed properly
Santos wants approval for the Narrabri Lateral Pipeline, which links the Narrabri Gas Project to the Hunter Gas Pipeline and the east coast gas network. We have been expecting they would lodge an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) – it is after all a high pressure pipeline requiring a 30m clearing for 60km – a lotContinue reading “Help Narrabri Lateral Pipeline be assessed properly”
Nanna News 9 Dec 2024
In this newsletter: Nanna fun at Customs House, Santos wants the Narrabri Lateral Pipeline approved without going through the usual assessment process, nuclear energy public hearings, forest defenders in court, Sydney koalas report, review of NSW anti-protest laws and more.
Action of the Week
It’s crunch time for the Great Koala National Park – will it be the precious Park we were promised at the election that will protect koalas, gliders and the climate? Or will it be a smaller version the logging industry lobbyists are pushing for?
Good News December 6, 2024
Goodbye forever chemicals! (in Blue Mountains water). Solar paint is charging EVs, and low carbon cement tackling a wind turbine challenge.