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...

ESSO has officially opened its new gas conditioning plant at Longford in Gippsland, promoting it as the largest domestic gas project on Australia's eastern seaboard, and one that will give certainty to the state's gas supplies...

ESSO has officially opened its new gas conditioning plant at Longford in Gippsland, promoting it as the largest domestic gas project on Australia's eastern seaboard, and one that will give certainty to the state's...

The Federal Coalition’s refusal to tackle climate change means we need to see more political leadership from state governments such as Victoria. Despite alarming melting of the polar icecaps and unprecedented bleaching of the...

FoE launched a campaign calling for a state renewable energy target (VRET) in early 2014. In August 2015, the Andrews government committed to VRETs for 2020 and 2025 in its Renewable Energy Roadmap We're...