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NGOs release alternative report to Uranium Implementation Committee

Submitted by kim.stewart on Mon 18 Mar 2013 12:12pm
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Friends of the earth, in conjunction with the Australian Conservation Foundation, Australian Manufacturing Workers Union, Electrical Trades Union, North Queensland Conservation Council, Queensland Conservation Council and Queensland Nuclear Free Alliance have released a report damning the LNPs push for uranium mining in our state.

High Risk – Low Returns: the case against uranium mining in Queensland is the NGO and civil society response to the LNPs undemocratic decision to go ahead with uranium mining in our state.

Read the report [here]

Sign to protect National Environment Laws

Submitted by kim.stewart on Sat 20 Oct 2012 9:55am
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It's more important than ever to protect the effectiveness of national legislation on the environment with a conservative state government going ahead full steam on mining and development.  Show your support for the Environmental Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act (1999) and help us resist the push to water down that protection.

Sign now

Local community builds fight against coal port development in the Fitzroy River Delta

Submitted by derec.davies on Mon 21 May 2012 7:01pm
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Australia's Great Barrier Reef and the endangered Snubfin Dolphin is at risk from coal port development in the Fitzroy River Delta near Rockhampton. Local community leader Ginny Gerlach will hold a public meeting to showcase the wonders of the Fitzroy Delta and why the areas needs to be protected.

Environmental protest given the green light in Queensland

Submitted by derec.davies on Fri 20 Jan 2012 3:22pm
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Today in the Brisbane magistrates court, Magistrate Jim Herlihy gave the green light to environmental protestors in Queensland to take action to protect the environment from coal and coal seam gas development.

“This is a great day for Queensland, and a great outcome for the environment” said Derec Davies from Friends of the Earth.

Community Rights, Corporate Wrongs: new report from FoEI

Submitted by kim.stewart on Sat 3 Dec 2011 4:13pm
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Friends of the Earth International promotes the respect and enforcement of community rights as a means to resist corporate power and create social change. Our member groups around the world are working closely with local communities, demanding a just transition towards sustainable rural and urban societies, in contrast to the current profit-driven and internationalised economy. This report focuses on campaigns that have the defence and enforcement of community rights at the heart of their struggles.

Images - FoE Clive Palmer’s car swamped by angry landowners Yeppoon Nov 2011

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Images for Yeppoon Event x 3 attached below

Video footage available from Channel 7 and Win 9 in Rockhampton.

 

Clive Palmer’s car swamped by angry landowners as Nature Refuge stands to fall

Submitted by derec.davies on Wed 30 Nov 2011 2:18pm
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Mining magnate Clive Palmer avoided being mobbed today by angry landowners over the proposed Waratah Coal’s Galilee Coal (aka China First) mine. The mine will see total destruction of a Queensland Nature Refuge, paving the way for Queensland's 412 Nature Refuges to be mined.

Strategic Environmental Assessment and Gladstone Harbour - Terms of Reference and Dredging Response

Submitted by derec.davies on Thu 10 Nov 2011 3:27pm
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Gladstone Harbour and surrounding waterways of the Fitzroy River delta are set to undergo massive development to accommodate the Surat Basin and lower Bowen Basin's new coal and CSG LNG (Coal Seam Gas and Liquified Natural Gas) export port facilities.

Protesters halt dredging in Gladstone Harbour.

Submitted by derec.davies on Wed 9 Nov 2011 6:22pm
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Protesters halted dredging in Gladstone harbour today, when Friends of the Earth campaigner Derec Davies locked on to a Gladstone port corporation dredge.

Mr Davies was part of a protest organised by Friends of the Earth with the support of local people.

He unfurlled a banner on the dredge, which read "Save the reef, halt dredging" and chained himself to the dredge at approximately 9:30am this morning, after being ferried in by a fast-travelling Zodiac inflatable speed-boat.

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