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An alliance of 59 groups has called on the Victorian government to ban all new on-shore coal and un-conventional gas operations until there has been a thorough investigation into the likely impacts of this...

Victorians must decide what type of energy future we want: ·    more dirty, coal fired power and the threat of coal exports, or ·    more renewables like wind, solar, wave energy and geothermal Ted...

The Old Drouin Butter Factory Theatre is set to host the Gippsland premiere of a new independent documentary called C, which looks at the impacts of controversial coal seam gas mining. Drouin launch: May...

Following the Royal Commission into the Black Saturday bushfires, the targets for controlled burning have been increased, and subject to considerable criticism by many environmentalists. Because of the way community fear of fire risk...

It’s the next wave of destruction for our native forests. The forestry and energy industries are now poised to unleash their plans to feed our forests into furnaces to produce electricity, convert them into...

A new Ministerial advisory council on ‘earth resources’ has been announced to address the sustainable development of the resources sector. Given that membership of this group is overwhelmingly biased towards the industry, and given...

Portland showed its support for the wind energy industry at today’s regional launch of the Victorian Wind Alliance at the Keppel Prince wind tower manufacturing facility.

Dirt Radio is a program presented by Friends of the Earth campaigners and activists.  The show digs down into the dirt on important environmental and social justice issues, exploring the campaigns, issues and communities...

FoE is working to halt all new on-shore fossil fuel projects in the state - including new coal, CSG, Tight and Shale gas. In 2012 we have broadened our work to also have a...

Two Quit Coal activists have camped out overnight after scaling a cooling tower at Yallourn Power Station in Victoria’s Latrobe Valley.