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Sep 04

Australia is experiencing climate change now. Enlarge image

Senate swings on environment issues

With the Federal election only days away, most of the focus is on who will win Government in the Lower House. But have you thought about your vote in the Senate?

Shale oil has significant environmental impacts. Enlarge image

Howard Government tried to gag Greenpeace

The Howard Government has been spending taxpayers’ money to benefit itself and industry and to silence its critics rather than for the public good. According to the Department of Industry, Tourism & Resources (DITR) email obtained by Greenpeace under Freedom of Information (FOI), Southern Pacific Petroleum (SPP) was offered a sales grant worth nearly $55 per barrel of shale oil or up to $36.4 million in 2002.

Geosequestration is unproven and dangerous. Enlarge image

Howard’s climate policy buried by new report

A new report released today has highlighted the dangers of geosequestration, the Howard Government's key response to climate change. Not only is this unproven technology more expensive than other options, it would also delay action on greenhouse pollution for decades.

Dead coral on the Great Barrier Reef Enlarge image

Climate policies expose Government to legal action

Climate change is the greatest threat to the Great Barrier Reef’s long-term survival, yet neither party has committed to the significant reductions in greenhouse pollution that are necessary to protect it!

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The Solar-powered election!

Solar powered fax stations staffed by Greenpeace volunteers sprang up in each capital city over the weekend, combining the power of free speech and the power of the sun to send a clear message to Mr Howard and Mr Latham to protect Australia from climate change by committing to reduce greenhouse pollution by 60% by 2050.

Questions are being raised about the safety of a GE food Enlarge image

GE corn approved without review of raw data

A major Australian/New Zealand food health and safety watchdog has admitted that they approved a variety of genetically engineered (GE) corn for human consumption without reviewing or even possessing the applicant’s test data.

Batamoa clan member over-looking the muddy site where logging has recently occured Enlarge image

Forest destroyer threatens Greenpeace

A Malaysian multinational logging firm has threatened to sue Greenpeace International over a report that highlights the company’s destructive record.

Greenpeace volunteers at a conference on 'geosequestration' in Melbourne Enlarge image

Breaking the fossil fuel addiction

Greenpeace volunteers have been handing out "Carbonette" chewing gum at a conference on 'geosequestration' in Melbourne, helping the delegates to break their addiction to coal.

Orica's toxic groundwater is a serious problem Enlarge image

Toxic incinerators threaten public health

Greenpeace continues to urge Orica (formerly ICI), one of Australia’s largest chemical companies, not to incinerate toxic contaminants from the groundwater leaking into Botany Bay. Orica has plans to use incineration to treat the groundwater it has contaminated through years of neglect.

Greenpeace scuba divers outside the Darling Harbour conference centre communicate the risks to Pacific Islands from sea level rises. Enlarge image

Drowning delegates call Howard to account

As the Prime Minister John Howard officially opened the World Energy Congress at Darling Harbour today, Greenpeace called on both him and Mark Latham to commit before election day to 60% reductions in greenhouse pollution by 2050.

The Rainbow Warrior is berthed head-to-head with a suspicious Cambodian-flagged vessel, the Dong Yii Enlarge image

Future of Pacific Tuna?

This December the future management one of the world's largest tuna fisheries will be negotiated when Pacific countries join with major fishing nations at the first meeting of a new Fisheries Commission. Greenpeace will present a petition urging the members to take strong action against pirate fishers.

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