Carmichael Coal Mine and Rail Infrastructure project approved (Department of...
(Source: Department of the Environment - Australian Government) Show all Hide all The Carmichael Coal Mine and Rail Project is an open-cut and underground coal mine located approximately 300 kilometres...
View ArticleElection 2016: Letters to the editor, May 8, 2016
LETTERS It is going to be a long contest of ideas ("Election 2016: a welcome contest of ideas", May 7-8). Let us hope more light than heat will be generated in the process and scaremongering by either...
View ArticleAn Endangered Cockatoo On The Wrong Side Of The Law
A flaw in environmental law prevents regulators seeing the forest from the (rapidly disappearing) trees. That’s why this species is fighting for survival, writes Andrew Picone. Australia’s largest...
View ArticleA year of reckless governing for Australia’s environment (ACF - Australian...
(Source: ACF - Australian Conservation Foundation) As the Abbott Government's first anniversary approaches, the Australian Conservation Foundation has taken a look back over the big decisions the...
View ArticleAdani coal project should not receive taxpayer funding (ACF - Australian...
(Source: ACF - Australian Conservation Foundation) Speaking on ABC Radio National Breakfast Mr Frydenberg said Adani's Carmichael coal mine 'is a commercial project… it needs to stand on its own two...
View ArticleEnvironmental water to remain with the Environment Department (ACF -...
(Source: ACF - Australian Conservation Foundation) 'Environmental water should be used to protect and restore the rivers and wetlands of Murray-Darling Basin and therefore the Environment Department is...
View ArticleEnvironment law change would be undemocratic (ACF - Australian Conservation...
(Source: ACF - Australian Conservation Foundation) The committee backed the government's proposal to repeal s 487 of the Environmental Protection & Biodiversity Conservation Act to restrict the...
View ArticleWorld Environment Day statement from Australian environment groups (ACF -...
(Source: ACF - Australian Conservation Foundation) The United Nation's World Heritage register recognises the most awe-inspiring places on Earth - the Great Barrier Reef, the Great Wall of China, the...
View ArticleNewspaper ad campaign urges Minister Hunt to reject Adani coal mine (ACF -...
(Source: ACF - Australian Conservation Foundation) A coalition of environment groups will run in two major newspapers this Friday. Following a legal challenge by Mackay Conservation Group, the Federal...
View ArticleIf banks are serious about their Principles, they cannot finance Galilee...
(Source: ACF - Australian Conservation Foundation) ANZ, the Commonwealth Bank, NAB and Westpac are all signatories to the Equator Principles, which are supposed to guide banks' assessment and...
View ArticleProtect northern Australia’s natural strengths, don’t repeat mistakes of the...
(Source: ACF - Australian Conservation Foundation) A previous Federal Government Northern Australian Land and Water Taskforce, which relied on extensive CSIRO research, found that "Contrary to popular...
View ArticleNational legal protection to stop national parks being turned into paddocks...
(Source: ACF - Australian Conservation Foundation) At present potentially damaging projects proposed for national parks may be assessed by the federal government, but only if they might affect 'matters...
View ArticleQld govt gives OK to Carmichael coal mine; ACF Federal Court challenge still...
(Source: ACF - Australian Conservation Foundation) 'If it goes ahead, the Carmichael coal mine would create billions of tonnes of pollution, making climate change worse and irreversibly damaging the...
View ArticleLand Court decision leaves Palaszczuk government with crucial coal test (ACF...
(Source: ACF - Australian Conservation Foundation) 'Just days after the historic Paris climate agreement was signed by 196 nations the Queensland Government faces a crucial test,' said Australian...
View ArticlePledge to review environment laws and fund environmental defenders welcome...
(Source: ACF - Australian Conservation Foundation) Labor has pledged to explore options to set up a federal environmental oversight body and reverse the current government's attempts to transfer...
View ArticleACF statement on Malcolm Fraser (ACF - Australian Conservation Foundation)
(Source: ACF - Australian Conservation Foundation) Mr Fraser was an early member of ACF's governing council in the mid-1960s. "Malcolm Fraser was a committed conservationist and played an important...
View ArticleMore info required: no go for mine expansion in Sydney water catchment (ACF -...
(Source: ACF - Australian Conservation Foundation) The PAC today chose not to approve or reject the company's application, which would see an expansion of the Russell Vale mine in the catchment area...
View ArticleCarmichael coal mine conditions are not ‘strict’ (ACF - Australian...
(Source: ACF - Australian Conservation Foundation) When he re-approved Adani's Carmichael coal mine last week Environment Minister Greg Hunt said the project had been approved 'subject to 36 of the...
View ArticleFlaws in plan to hand over assessment powers to states (ACF - Australian...
(Source: ACF - Australian Conservation Foundation) on the draft assessment agreement shows NSW policy allows for companies to double count sites as biodiversity and carbon offsets, even though this...
View ArticleDeforestation surges in Queensland ahead of crackdown on land clearing
WWF reports landholders ‘panic clearing’ under the new Labor government in anticipation of protections being restored...
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