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June 2010 e-bulletin

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Welcome to our new e-bulletin, keeping you up to date with all the exciting happenings at Friends of the Earth Brisbane, what's going on in your local community and how you can get involved in it all.

Community must counter resource industry pressure!

Submitted by derec.davies on Mon 7 Jun 2010 12:51am
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Friends of the Earth Brisbane has today expressed deep disappointment in the Bligh Government's position on the Resource Super Profits Tax.

"It is high time governments taxed mining companies appropriately," said Friends of the Earth Brisbane spokesperson, Eleanor Smith, "The resources belong to us, we bear the environmental and health costs of these industries and yet as it stands the Queensland Government gives all the royalties they earn and then some straight back to the coal industry in infrastructure and other services."

Xstrata Coal Project - Bad Planning To Blame Not Tax

Submitted by steve.skitmore on Fri 4 Jun 2010 4:21pm
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Community group, Friends of the Earth Brisbane, has welcomed news today that mining giant, Xstrata, will suspend operations in Wandoan, but blames the company's poor planning for the failure of the project and not the Resource Super Profits Tax. 

The Wandoan Coal Project is a climate killer”, said spokes person for Friends of the Earth Brisbane, Eleanor Smith. “At 30 million tonnes of coal per year, it was to be one of the biggest coal projects in the world and add millions of tonnes to our carbon debt.”

Working with landholders and environment groups to protect agricultural land

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Six Degrees, the coal and climate change collective of FoE Brisbane has a strong focus on halting coal mining on agricultural land this year. This is a pivotal year for this issue with the Queensland government undertaking community engagement and promising to change legislation to protect at least some agricultural land from mining by the end of the year.

Submission to Queensland Government Strategic Cropping Land policy and planning framework 2010

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Submission of the Six Degrees Coal and Climate Campaign, Friends of the Earth Brisbane on
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Women's Peace Walk: Follow our 80 Day Walk to Canberra

Submitted by derec.davies on Sat 20 Mar 2010 2:47pm
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On 13th March 2010 five women aged from 37 to 69 years old begin walking for a nuclear free and sustainable future to protect the natural environment for your children, grandchildren and their great grandchildren.

Follow our journey by reading our trip blog here and trip photos or download our itinerary below or click on the map to see our walk route.

We are walking from Brisbane to Canberra working with many local people in townships along the way. Please support our courageous adventure by joining our walk – one hour, one day, one week, or the whole way or by donating.

Environment Groups join with farmers to protect prime agricultural land from mines

Submitted by steve.skitmore on Mon 15 Mar 2010 1:24pm
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Friends of the Earth and a broad alliance of environment groups have today submitted concerns in response to the Queensland Government discussion paper "Strategic Cropping Land: policy and planning framework".

Friends of the Earth spokesperson Bradley Smith says that while the groups are hopeful, the proposed framework currently falls far short of protecting good quality agricultural farmland from coal mining.

Help protect our food bowl from mining: make a submission now!

Submitted by steve.skitmore on Fri 12 Mar 2010 10:55am
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The expanding coal industry has been invading some of Queensland's best food producing land, and farming community groups have been fighting to stay on the land. Help them by making a submission today!

Community Dialogues on Coal Report

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In November 2008 Six Degrees undertook a listening tour of coal affected communities in Queensland. The purpose of the tour was for Six Degrees to improve our understand of the impacts of the coal industry in Queensland, and to gauge the attitudes of affected communities to climate change and the expansion of the coal industry.

Galilee coal deal to put another nail in climate coffin

Submitted by Anonymous on Thu 11 Feb 2010 12:59pm
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Friends of the Earth Brisbane join calls from the Mackay Conservation Group for the Queensland Government to reconsider its support for the China First coal project in central Queensland town of Alpha.

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