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GDF Suez refusal to pay for cost of Hazelwood coal disaster reinforces need to regulate the sector
July 07, 2015
MEDIA RELEASE: 7 July, 2015 National environment group Friends of the Earth say news the owner of Hazelwood is refusing to pay the $18 million cost of fighting last year's fire that occurred in...
Read More Add your reaction ShareNationals vote on Unconventional Gas Inquiry a betrayal of rural communities
May 19, 2015
Friends of the Earth media release. May 27, 2015 In an extraordinary move, The Nationals have voted against a Greens Amendment to the Onshore Unconventional Gas Inquiry . When the Terms of Reference (TOR)...
Read More Add your reaction ShareUnconventional gas Inquiry gets underway
May 07, 2015
Friends of the Earth media release. May 7, 2015 Friends of the Earth has welcomed the announcement of the process and timelines for the state inquiry into unconventional gas. “The terms of reference are...
Read More Add your reaction ShareCommunities must have the right to veto mining
February 25, 2015
Friends of the Earth media release. February 25, 2015. The Victorian National Party has announced that it supports farmers having the right to veto gas drilling operations on their land. “We are heartened to...
Read More Add your reaction ShareBig Hill mine knocked back, Stockman mine approved
October 30, 2014
The Victorian Planning Minister Matthew Guy has today recommended that one massive mine be knocked back while supporting another. Friends of the Earth welcomes the Minister’s recommendation not to approve the Stawell open cut...
Read More Add your reaction ShareCost of Natural Disasters Report
October 26, 2014
A research report released today by environment group Friends of the Earth shows that the financial cost to governments and the community in Victoria from natural disasters was $19.937 billion dollars over a ten...
Read More Add your reaction ShareGippsland: New Coal Mines or Agriculture?
October 07, 2014
Why Victoria doesn’t need more brown coal allocations in our food bowl. The Coalition government and ALP continue to refuse to rule out a new allocation of brown coal reserves for new mines in the...
Read More Add your reaction ShareVictorian government should ban onshore gas drilling
September 04, 2014
Friends of the Earth media release. September 4, 2014 The government of the Canadian Province of Nova Scotia has just announced that it intends to introduce legislation to prohibit hydraulic fracturing (‘fracking’) in shale...
Read More Add your reaction ShareFarmland Not Gaslands
August 20, 2014
Farmland Not Gaslands is an empowering, short documentary that looks at the growing community movement against invasive unconventional gas projects planned for Gippsland and Western Victoria. The inspiring stories of these rural communities and what...
Read More Add your reaction ShareShut It Down
July 18, 2014
Friends of the Earth is proud to join GetUp, Doctors for the Environment Australia, Environment Victoria and others in supporting the Surf Coast Air Action campaign to end coal pollution in Anglesea on Victoria's...
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