Alcoa ties its future to polluting coal generation
Alcoa ties its future to polluting coal generation
Tuesday, 2 March 2010
Environment Victoria has today condemned Alcoa’s decision to source its electricity from Loy Yang Power’s brown coal power station for the next 26 years.
Environment Victoria Campaigns Director Mark Wakeham said that it was unacceptable for aluminium smelters to be locking in such a polluting power supply until 2036 and that Alcoa should have been looking at renewable energy and gas-fired generation to power its two Victorian smelters:
Now that the CPRS shemozzle has passed it's time to Walk Against Warming
Saturday, 12 December @ 12pm
Parliament House, Canberra, can be a strange place at the best of times. I’ve probably spent about 2 months of my life in the building, meeting with politicians, advisors and bureaucrats, trying to achieve some progress on climate change- the issue that needs a little less conversation and a lot more action.
Environment Victoria: Online Annual Report 2008-2009
Welcome to our online Annual Report.
It's been a big year (in more ways than one) and we've worked hard to make the most of it. Click on the links below to see what we've been up to and the great things we've achieved in the last twelve months.
Green Action News: Issue 8, Winter 2009
Green Action News
Issue 8, Winter 2009
In this edition: We're counting drops, getting green jobs for Victoria, wondering what the big polluters have on Rudd; and that's just to get you started.
Download it here
Are you in?
Are you in?
We've got a bold plan. Get everyone in Victoria to start taking Green Action. That's all 5 million of us, all doing some part big and small, to safeguard our environment. Because we know it's not impossible. In fact, it's already happening. So what do you say? Are you in?
