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August 2008

29 August 2008: Greenpeace activists lampoon elite talks between the Business Council of Australia and the federal Energy Minister, Martin Ferguson, by dressing up as fat cats, swilling champagne and begging for money outside Parliament House. Enlarge image

Fat cat polluters beg for more taxpayer money

Greenpeace today lampooned elite talks between the Business Council of Australia (BCA) and Energy Minister Martin Ferguson by dressing up as fat cats and begging for money outside Parliament House.

25 August, 2008: Greenpeace ship, Esperanza, is welcomed into Port Morseby by traditional dance groups and mudmen to begin the Forest for Climate ship tour. The Paradise Forests of Indonesia and Papua New Guinea are disappearing at a faster rate than any other forests on the planet. Deforestation releases huge amounts of greenhouse gas, contributing to dangerous climate change. Enlarge image

Protecting forests saves our climate

Greenpeace has launched our Forests for Climate tour with a colourful welcome in Papua New Guinea. Our ship, Esperanza, will tour the region protecting forests and showing how deforestation contributes to climate change.

Global warming and its effects on the Great Barrier Reef in Australia feature. Aerial view of the Great Barrier reef off the Whitsunday Islands. Based on figures from The Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics (ABARE) it is estimated by government, media and environmental activists that export coal expansion plans in Queensland would create additional global greenhouse pollution equal to 125% of AustraliaÕs total current emissions; or the same as the CO2 pollution from 65 average sized coal-fired power stations. Australia is considered by environmental activists as one of the world's highest per capita polluters and exports more CO2 than is emitted domestically. In 2006/7, Australia exported around 243 million tonnes (Mt), 30% of the world's total coal exports, equal to 656 Mt of CO2. Enlarge image

Local community wins a ban on shale oil

It's a victory for the Whitsunday Islands, with a 20-year moratorium on all new shale oil projects in the region being announced by Queensland Premier Anna Bligh recently. Led by the Save Our Foreshore group, the success shows just how powerful local, grassroots campaigns can be.

Greenpeace activists enter a genetically engineered (GE) canola field trial near the border of South Australia and unfurl a giant 20m x 30m banner in the field, reading 'GE CANOLA KNOWS NO BORDERS'. The action comes two days after the New South Wales (NSW) Government officially announced that it would join Victoria in commercially growing GE canola. (c)Greenpeace/Ascui NO ARCHIVE NO RESALE CREDITLINE COMPULOSRY Enlarge image

A win for GM-free in WA as ban is extended

Greenpeace welcomes the WA Government's recent move to extend its ban on genetically modified (GM) crops by a further 4 years.

This is especially great news given WA is the country’s largest producer and exporter of canola, a key GM crop.

Greenpeace activists dressed as Turtles engage staff and patrons of the Blue Hotel in Woolloomoollo, Sydney to highlight the effects the Dharma Port development in India will have on the habitat of the Olive Ridley Sea Turtle. Enlarge image

No room for turtles in Tata development

Two Greenpeace activists dressed as turtles tried to check in at Sydney's Blue Hotel. The hotel is a subsidiary of Indian industrial giant Tata, whose port construction is threatening the habitat of endangered Olive Ridley Sea Turtles and a valuable ecosystem.

Tobie Puttock and Rosemary Stanton both signed on to the GM-Free Chefs Charter Enlarge image

Top chefs say Australians have right to know if they are eating GM food

Leading Australian chefs Tobie Puttock and Dur-é Dara have joined nutritionist Dr Rosemary Stanton and Greenpeace in launching a national petition asking for comprehensive labelling and testing of GM food products.

The 3000-candle giant wind turbine art installation by well-known Hervey Bay artist Jorge Pujol, who was helped by local Cairns residents. Enlarge image

Esperanza's Energy [R]evolution tour ends on a bright note

Our amazing ship tour ended with a spectacular candle-lit celebration when the Esperanza finished its six-week Energy [R]evolution tour of Australia’s east coast in Cairns on Sunday. Local residents helped build a giant wind turbine art installation with 3000 candles.