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Renewables Roadmap
November 19, 2014
Victoria used to be one of the leaders in Australia when it came to renewable energy and action on climate change. This has all been lost over the past four years as the Coalition...
Read More Add your reaction ShareJoint statement: Coalition government worst in recent memory on environment
November 14, 2014
The Baillieu/ Napthine government has the poorest track record on the protection and restoration of the environment of any government since Victoria’s peak environment groups were founded in the 1950s. The state’s environment groups,...
Read More Add your reaction ShareGreat Forest National Park - A playground for Melbourne
November 14, 2014
Friends of the Earth has joined more than 30 environment, conservation, recreation, scientific and citizen science groups to call on all political parties and candidates in the lead-up to the November 2014 Victorian election...
Read More Add your reaction ShareMacedon community survey finds strong support for renewables, dumping anti-wind farm laws
November 07, 2014
MEDIA RELEASE - 7 Nov 2014 Friends of the Earth have launched a report on the views voters in the hotly-contested seat of Macedon hold on the government's anti-wind farm laws just weeks from the...
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 ShareVictoria pulls out of national park logging trial – NSW should follow
October 23, 2014
Media Release, 23rd October, 2014 Friends of the Earth can announce today that the Victorian Government has withdrawn from a controversial logging trial planned for the Barmah National Park, part of the world’s largest...
Read More Add your reaction ShareDenis Napthine’s energy plan. More coal, less renewables
October 20, 2014
In mid October, the Victorian Coalition government quietly released it's Energy Plan. There has been no environment policy released as such, which means we have to judge the government's intention on the documents that...
Read More Add your reaction ShareFarmland not Gaslands
October 16, 2014
If you’re concerned about environmental issues and the urgent need to rapidly reduce the world’s greenhouse gas emissions, it’s hard not to get depressed. The Australian government is cutting climate action programs and turning...
Read More Add your reaction ShareKeep the loggers out of our Red Gum Parks
October 15, 2014
What does ‘Ecological Thinning’ mean for your National Parks? The NSW State governments plan to run a trial of “ecological thinning” inside the Murray Valley National Park. The trial will use logging machinery to...
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