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Friends of the Earth Melbourne (FoE) kicked off the Act on Climate campaign in January 2017. The new project was established as key campaigns for a legislated ban on unconventional gas and ambitious Victorian...

Energy policy has been a hot topic in 2017. But with misinformation out there in the community, it's time to get informed and set the record straight. Victoria has seen French company Engie closed the...

While Jemena carries on with the NT Pipeline construction and the State Government's Inquiry into Unconventional Gas is still underway, communities in the NT are standing up louder than ever against fracking.   As...

Friends of the Earth has won the Environmental Justice category in this year's Victorian Premier's Sustainability Awards for conducting a campaign to build community resistance to the potential threat of fracking.

MEDIA RELEASE 9th October 2017 Communities have reacted with dismay and disappointment to the latest policy development from the VIC opposition, calling for royalties to landholders who allow gas drilling on their properties. This...

  GREAT NEWS -- on 21st September 2017 the Victorian Renewable Energy Target passed in the lower house in state parliament! This is a historic moment for Victoria's renewable energy future. Victorian Renewable Energy...

The 30th of August marks a very special occasion for Victorians: the first anniversary of our state-wide ban on Fracking and unconventional gas.On this day last year the Premier of Victoria Daniel Andrews announced...

MEDIA RELEASE: 24 July 2017 Friends of the Earth have welcomed an Andrews government announcement of a $4.7 million grant scheme to kick-start community projects that tackle climate change saying it will bring jobs...

Friends of the Earth: Coalition of the willing on renewables welcome, but “must deliver existing state/territory commitments”  Friends of the Earth, the environment group that coordinated the campaign for a Victorian Renewable Energy Target,...

The Andrews Labor Government has released its coal policy this afternoon (the Statement on Future Uses of Brown Coal). National environment group Friends of the Earth says that this long awaited policy represents a profound...