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MEDIA RELEASE - 27 JUNE:  Friends of the Earth welcome the announcement of state government support for a $565 million expansion of the Nectar Farms hydroponic business near Stawell. The project will see the...

Recent logging in the Acheron forests north of Warburton has severely impacted on a large population of protected greater gliders.  Greater gliders are Australia’s largest gliding marsupial and Victoria’s latest threatened species. Last month...

VicForests has just started logging in the ‘Floater’ coupe near Toolangi, to the north east of Melbourne in the Central Highlands. Earlier this week, volunteer surveyors from Wildlife of the Central Highlands (WOTCH) recorded...

Recent media reports about plans for a floating LNG import terminal in Victoria are deeply concerning. The terminal would allow Victoria, NSW and South Australia to ‘import lower cost gas, potentially from the US or Western...

Recent media reports about plans for a floating LNG import terminal in Victoria are deeply concerning. The terminal would allow Victoria, NSW and South Australia to ‘import lower cost gas, potentially from the US or Western...

FoE's forest campaign collective visited the Green Building Council event "Pillars of Change" today.  We were raising awareness about their endorsement of Australian Forestry Standard certification which certifies timber from environmentally destructive logging operations.

The Point Henry aluminium smelter was located near Geelong and operated for many decades prior to its closure in 2014.  Since then, both Alcoa (who operated the smelter) and the state government have been...

Media release. 26 May 2017. Friends of the Earth Infrastructure Australia has announced that it wants state governments to hand the operation of their public transport systems over to private operators, arguing that they...

Infrastructure Australia has announced that it wants state governments to hand the operation of their public transport systems over to private operators, arguing that they could cut costs and improve service quality by doing...

Carbon capture and storage (CCS) is an unproven, risky and expensive technology. State and federal governments have put huge amounts of public funds into CCS research for years, in the hope it will provide...