Media Release
RALLY: Coal-fired power station funding on the line
Tomorrow, hundreds of people will rally to call on the Baillieu and Gillard Governments to withdraw their $150 million of taxpayer grants to a proposed new coal-fired power station called HRL...
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Government told to make use of brown coal reserves
A mining company has told a parliamentary committee Victoria needs to make more productive use of its coal reserves...
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Local girl wields influence
Our Safe Climate Campaigner Victoria was today listed as the one of the state’s 100 Most Influential, Inspiring and Creative People in a special edition of the Age Melbourne Magazine...
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Basin Plan fails rivers and the environment again
The draft Murray-Darling Basin Plan is a flawed proposal that will fail to deliver on its legislative requirement to provide a secure future for rivers and the communities that depend on them...
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EnviroWatch audit marks an unhappy anniversary for the environment
The Baillieu Government’s first year in office has been very disappointing for the environment. Have a look at the full audit here...
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Pipeline decision breaks promise to return water to environment
The Coalition made very few good environmental promises prior to the election and it’s extremely disappointing that they are now breaking one of the few positive commitments they did make...
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Backwards March calls on Premier Baillieu to change direction on environment
What we need now is for the Baillieu Government to put its annus horribilis behind it, and to develop a policy agenda that helps, not harms, the environment...
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Backwards March urges Baillieu Government to change direction on environment
Around 1000 Victorians (including some in cow costumes) will march backwards from Parliament House to Treasury Gardens this Sunday...
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New coal-fired power station economically unviable, says EPA expert witness
The proposed new coal-fired power station HRL is unlikely to be economically viable at either a 600MW or 300MW scale, according to expert evidence presented in VCAT this afternoon...
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Price on Pollution becomes law. The clean-up of our polluting economy begins.
Today we congratulate the Gillard Government, the Greens and the Independents for delivering a price on pollution...
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