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December 6, 2013 Friends of the Earth. Media release. Gelliondale Resources, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Ignite Energy Resources Limited, is currently applying for a Retention Licence to facilitate the development of the Gelliondale Coal...

November 21, 2013 Friends of the Earth media release. Friends of the Earth has welcomed today’s announcement by the Premier that the moratorium on the process of unconventional gas fracking will be extended at...

  November 14, 2013 Friends of the Earth media release Yesterday Victorian Greens leader Greg Barber introduced a motion to the Upper House, which called for a permanent ban on the coal seam gas...

November 5, 2013. Friends of the Earth media release Last friday the Premier, Dr Napthine, announced that the government would maintain the current moratorium on the process of fracking to access unconventional gas in...

1 November 2013 Friends of the Earth media release Peter Reith’s long awaited report to the Victorian government about the eastern gas market will be handed to the government today. While the Premier has...

October 3, 2013 Conservationists are alarmed that recent clearing in the Strzelecki Cores and Links Rainforest Reserve has destroyed approximately 10 hectares of regenerating reserve at several different locations inside the reserve. Conservationists are...

September 26, 2013 Friends of the Earth media release With the Coalition in power federally, there is already increased pressure nation wide to develop new coal and gas projects. Tony Abbott has promised to...

Monday 16 September, 2013 Known forest habitat for the endangered Leadbeater’s Possum is today being highlighted by conservationists as state government loggers, VicForests, continues to allow bulldozers in the Toolangi State Forest.

August 13 2013 PRESS RELEASE Environmental organisations Friends of the Earth and Friends of Gippsland Bush today released a detailed case study investigating the impacts of Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) certification on the rainforests...

PRESS RELEASE  Friends of the Earth A new report by Friends of the Earth has highlighted high levels of chlorine disinfection byproducts in drinking water supplied to several towns in Victoria’s Mallee Region.