Managed Investment Schemes Enter Melbourne's Water Supply, Pesticide Risk Exposed
Bay dredging alert
Please take the time (less than a minute) to send a letter to Peter Garrett and help stop the proposed dredging of Port Phillip Bay - just click here to use our simple form now. (This link will take you to an e-lobby on the FoE International website)
Goldmines in Melbourne's Water Supplies?
Friends of the Earth today raised concerns about the possibility of gold mining occurring within water supplies that supply Melbournians with drinking water. For background on this issue also see: www.baddevelopers.green.net.au
Sustainable palm oil campaign launched
Members of the Palm Oil Action Group are ;
- Friends of the Earth Australia www.foe.org.au
- Rainforest Information Centre www.rainforestinfo.org.au
- Borneo Orangutan Society www.orangutans.com.au
- Australian Orangutan Project www.orangutan.org.au
Check out our new website at: http://www.palmoilaction.org.au/
LinkUp Melbourne - Sustainable Transport Campaign
They have done so by putting public transport under the control of
efficient, accountable public agencies, while Melbourne is a
privatised, unaccountable, uncoordinated mess.
But Melbourne's public transport can be taken back into public
control modelled on the very best in the world, if the state government
does not extend or renew the rail and tram franchises by the 30th
November 2007. If the government so chooses by the 2007 deadline,
Melbourne's trains and trams will revert to public ownership without
the need to compensate the private operators.
To support our sustainable transport campaign, please see their web
Climate Justice: A Fair Share of the Atmosphere
The new report from Friends of the Earth highlights how many people in the Global South are already experiencing devastating impacts of climate change with impacts upon food security, water security, health and livelihoods. Climate change is therefore creating a global human rights crisis which will be much worse without deep and immediate reductions in emissions. Download the publication here
Nuclear power: No solution to climate change
Now we face one of our biggest challenges, and we need your help. Please support the campaign. You can donate on-line.
A growing number of people may have jumped on the nuclear power bandwagon but all the evidence suggestions that nuclear power is no solution to climate change.
Check here for details on some of our campaign materials.
- Report: 'Nuclear Power: No Solution to Climate Change' September 2005
- Our anti-nuclear campaign with the real story on mines, waste, radiation and health and more
- FoE Australia submissions and briefing papers and the new report Yellow Cake Country: Australias Uranium Industry (PDF 3.7mb)
Boycott Reflex Paper
On a positive side, the new facility will reduce PaperlinX's need for chlorine bleaching, with almost no dioxin outputs into the Latrobe River and Bass Strait occurring after the new facility is constructed.
For more information see: www.australianpaper.forests.org.au/index2/updates11-02.htm
Basin plan delivers a pretty raw deal
Our lead campaigner, Jonathan La Nauze, has an opinion piece in the Canberra Times this week:
Craig Knowles has a plan for Australia's greatest river. It's a compromised plan, he admits, but trade-offs have to be made; river health balanced with the demands of irrigated agriculture. Problem is, no one has spelt out what the plan will actually do for the river. With Tony Burke poised to clinch the deal with $10 billion of public money, we deserve to know what we're paying for.
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