Replace Hazelwood
Imagine a wealthy state like Victoria being home to one of the dirtiest power station in the industrialized world. You’d think that was impossible wouldn’t you? Unfortunately its not, which is why we’re campaigning for the closure of Hazelwood power station and its replacement with cleaner, greener alternatives.
Hazelwood power station is one dirty brown coal burning beast. It pumps out over 16 million tonnes of greenhouse pollution each year. That’s almost 15 percent of Victoria’s greenhouse gas emissions and 3 percent of Australia’s greenhouse gas emissions, all on its own. And it uses a whopping 27 billion litres of water a year. That’s almost as much water as the whole of Melbourne uses in a month! Yep. And there’s just the start of it. Get even more dirty details on this old clunker
The good news is that there are alternatives to polluting coal. And we can Replace Hazelwood with clean, safe and reliable energy for the future, and we can do it within the next two years.
We’ve released a report that shows how Hazelwood can be replaced as soon as the end of 2012 using a combination of renewable energy, energy efficiency and as a transition fuel, gas. All while maintaining energy security, cutting Victoria's greenhouse pollution by 12 percent and creating more jobs than Hazelwood currently provides. How good is that!
Check out the Replace Hazelwood report here
Help us Replace Hazelwood. There's a mountain of things you can do. Get involved here
And to get all the latest news on the campaign, there’s no better place than right here
We rallied to Replace ALL of Hazelwood
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Prior to the state election, we analysed where the major parties stand on replacing Hazelwood power station. Download the paper here
And post the election, we prepared a list of their election commitments - the good, the vague and the downright worrying. You can find it here
Watch our YouTube VIDEO on the campaign. View it
Listen to our rally promo on 3cr (pretty sweet huh)
Check out our advert published in the Melb Weekly Times and Port Philip Weekly on Wednesday, 3 November 2010. View it here
Watch our footage of our Punt Road Billboard going up! Check it out
We've released a report that shows how Hazelwood can be replaced as soon as the end of 2012. All while maintaining energy security, cutting Victoria's greenhouse pollution by 12 percent and creating more jobs than Hazelwood currently provides. Check it out
A number of other studies have shown how Hazelwood’s electricity generation could be replaced by cleaner sources. For instance see Towards Victoria’s clean energy future
New analysis shows that little progress has been made over the past decade in reducing Victoria’s reliance on polluting coal-fired electricity. Get the dirt here and check out our release
Visit the Replace Hazelwood website
Government told to make use of brown coal reserves
Wednesday, 14 December 2011
Danny Morgan, ABC News
A mining company has told a parliamentary committee Victoria needs to make more productive use of its coal reserves.
Exergen is lobbying the State...
moreEnviroWatch audit marks an unhappy anniversary for the environment
Wednesday, 23 November 2011
Environment Victoria, the state’s leading independent environment group, has audited the environmental performance of the Baillieu Government after one year in...
morePower switch-off deadlines
Saturday, 1 October 2011
Tom Arup, The Age
Power plants in the Latrobe Valley would not begin closing until mid-2016 under the federal government's preferred timetable to pay heavy greenhouse gas emitting electricity...
moreCoal power struggle is a really messy business
Saturday, 24 September 2011
The Age
At the end of the day, a very large, very profitable multinational utility which owns a very old, very dirty brown-coal-fired power station in Victoria is likely to walk...
moreCoalition finds that it's not so easy being green
Sunday, 28 August 2011
Farrah Tomazin, The Age
In a speech to Parliament in November 2009, one year before he was elected Premier, Ted Baillieu strongly supported a carbon pollution reduction scheme...
moreHockey contradicts party
Thursday, 11 August 2011
Jarrod Whittake, Latrobe Valley Express
Federal Opposition treasury spokesman Joe Hockey has described replacing Hazelwood Power Station/a...
moreVic Oppn says Govt has forgotten environment
Friday, 29 July 2011
Liz Hobday, PM ABC News
MARK COLVIN: The Victorian Labor Opposition is accusing the Coalition Government of watering down environment policy and backing away from...
moreGovernment accused of Hazelwood scare campaign
Monday, 11 July 2011
By state political reporter Alison Savage
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Reports 'speculative'
Monday, 4 July 2011
Jarrod Whittaker, Latrobe Vally Express
International Power has dismissed media reports the company is close to striking a deal to close Hazelwood Power Station as "speculative", but admit they would be...
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Congratulations
On another massive year
Regardless of what happens over coming years, 2011 will go down as a major turning point in Australia’s action on climate change.
At a community, policy and political level the campaigns and outcomes delivered this year will have a...
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Getting closure
on dirty power
Last Friday the federal government called for expressions of interest to retire up to 2000MW of coal generation by 2020. The call comes as part of the government’s "...
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Our volunteers
think we're great!
We'll that's what they said at our volunteer night last week, although admittedly we did supply them with alcohol and snacks before hand…
We had 20 or so people come along, some of them existing volunteers keen to meet each other and...
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The amazing case
of the disappearing climate policy
Long before photoshop, in post-World War 2 Soviet Union Joseph Stalin had an interesting and macabre habit. When one of his Ministers or apparatchiks fell out of favour with him, he would have them disappeared.
As well as being...
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Welcome increase
to Victoria’s energy efficiency
Environment Victoria welcomes the recent decision by the Baillieu Government to double Victoria’s successful Energy Efficiency Target (VEET) and extend the scheme to small and medium enterprises.
We were notified this...
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- NEW REPORT! Fast-tracking Victoria’s clean energy future to replace Hazelwood Power Station |
- International Power Australia's submission on the CPRS Green Paper |
- Where the major Victorian parties stand on replacing Hazelwood power station |
- Briefing: Treatment of electricity generators under a price on carbon |
- Australia’s Electricity Generation Mix 1960-2009 |
- 2011 Annual Report |
- Coal decision a reprieve for the climate |
- Rudd climate backflip raises pressure to replace Hazelwood |
- Replacing Australia’s dirtiest power station could fill climate policy vacuum, says report |
- Calling all Hoddle St Traffic – Help create a clean energy future! |
