Australians are becoming increasingly concerned with the impacts of large dredging projects on their delicate marine environments. After the social, economic and environmental disaster at Gladstone after large scale port dredging, local communities are concerned about the impacts on recreational & commercial fishing, tourism and… Read more
Today, the Mackay Conservation Group filed documents in Brisbane’s Federal Court challenging the government’s controversial decision to dredge and dump at Abbot Point. This is the second legal action against the government over the approval. As with North Queensland Conservation Council, they will be represented… Read more
The world is experiencing extinction rates not seen since the dinosaurs were killed off, marking the end of the Cretaceous period some 66 million years ago. Australia has not been immune to this alarming trend. We have experienced a dramatic loss of species over the… Read more
Renewable energy is not something that springs to mind when I think of Clive Palmer. Loudmouth Imbecile? Yes. Bizarrely entertaining lunatic? Yes. Environmentally insensitive coal-mining magnate? Yes. But Palmer United Party’s controversial leader has spoken out in support of renewable energy and against government plans… Read more
CSG company Santos has been found guilty of contaminating a Pilliga forest aquifer with chemical waste leaked from a holding pond, a by-product of one of their test wells. The aquifer was found to contain radioactive uranium products at 20 times safe drinking levels. The… Read more
The blows just keep on coming. Tony Abbott, speaking last week at a ForestWorks industry dinner in Canberra, hailed loggers as the “ultimate conservationists” and promised to end the lock-up of timber in national parks. Abbott told the audience that Australia has “quite enough” national… Read more
This week came a huge blow to Environment Minister Greg Hunt and the controversial Abbot Point coal port development he approved late last year. New documents obtained by Greenpeace emerged this week, revealing the extent of the Marine Park Authority’s opposition to both the dredging… Read more
Greenpeace and Clean Up Australia have launched their #TRASHYSELFIE campaign to raise awareness of plastic bottle waste in Australia. 15,000 plastic bottles are discarded every minute in Australia and less than a third are recycled, meaning they end up on our beaches, in our rivers,… Read more
Today we learned that our reef destroying, shark culling, forest logging Environment Minister Hunt will grant himself retrospective legal immunity. What does this mean? Greg Hunt will be immune from any legal challenges to environmental approvals he issued before December 31st, 2013. Many of these… Read more
In another blow to the Australian environment, the government announced that it will remove 170,000 hectares of forest from the Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area, opening it up to logging. In a week that also saw approval granted to dump 3 million cubic metres of… Read more
On December 12th 2013, the Federal Environment Minister Greg Hunt announced his decision to approve an application by North Queensland Bulk Ports (NQBP) to expand its coal terminal at Abbot Point. This news was a great shock to those campaigning against the project as well… Read more