Pages tagged "Nuclear Free"
Film screening and discussion on the ‘nuclear comeback’
Screening of new documentary Uranium: Is it a Country?
Followed by discussion with Jim Green, National Nuclear Campaigner, Friends of the Earth.
Thursday 1 October.
Stop BHP Billiton's Olympic Dam mine expansion
Please send a submission opposing the plan to turn the Olympic Dam (Roxby Downs) mine in SA into the biggest uranium mine in the world.
Film Premiere 'Uranium - Is It a Country?'
Australian premiere of a remarkable new documentary on the interconnections of the nuclear fuel cycle, from outback Australia to the nuclear plants of Germany.
Olympic Dam expansion to blow out SA greenhouse emissions
A technical assessment by Monash University engineering lecturer Dr Gavin Mudd reveals that the proposed Olympic Dam mine expansion will make it almost impossible for South Australia to meet its legislated target of a 60% reduction in greenhouse emissions.
May Day: Stop the Olympic Dam Uranium Mine Expansion
On May 1, BHP Billiton will release the Environmental Impact Statement for its planned expansion of the Olympic Dam (Roxby Downs) uranium/copper mine in SA. Come along to this May Day protest to voice your opposition.
An Introduction to FoE's Anti-Nuclear and Clean Energy (ACE) Campaign
Come along to an evening of short talks, films, fun, food and drinks to learn about ACE and our upcoming Radioactive Exposure Tour (May 15-25).
Radioactive Exposure Tour 2009
The amazing Radioactive Exposure Tour is on again! Join Friends of the Earth for a journey to South Australia, May 15-24
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With today's Annual General Meeting of BHP Billiton in London coinciding with National Water Week in Australia, anti-nuclear campaigners are protesting outside the company's Melbourne office calling on it to address its outrageous water profligacy and mismanagement at the Roxby Downs uranium mine.
Radioactive Exposure Tour 2008 May 9th - 18th
The Radioactive Exposure Tour is on again. Join Friends of the Earth for a journey to remote northern South Australia where we will visit the Olympic Dam uranium mine at Roxby Downs, the Beverley Uranium Project in the Gammon Ranges, the beautiful Lake Eyre and Mound Springs environments and meet with indigenous peoples and local communities campaigning against the nuclear industry. The tour offers a unique opportunity to go out on to country and witness the impacts of the nuclear industry on people and the environment. Indigenous people across the world suffer most directly from the impacts of the nuclear industry, this â??radioactive racism' is a major focus of the tour.
You won't see this on reality TV.....So get on the bus, get out under the desert stars and get ready to listen!
Cost: $600 per person or $450 concession.
Total cost of the tour will include travel, accommodation and organic vegetarian food plus paying the rent to aboriginal communities.
Sponsorship request letters are available should you wish to apply for donation from an organisation that you are involved with.
For more information and applications please contact: Jessie Boylan: [email protected] 0408 448 493
Steve Holdsworth: 0430 354 887
Friends of the Earth: 03) 9419 8700
Nuclear power: No solution to climate change
Now we face one of our biggest challenges, and we need your help. Please support the campaign. You can donate on-line.
A growing number of people may have jumped on the nuclear power bandwagon but all the evidence suggestions that nuclear power is no solution to climate change.
Check here for details on some of our campaign materials.
- Report: 'Nuclear Power: No Solution to Climate Change' September 2005
- Our anti-nuclear campaign with the real story on mines, waste, radiation and health and more
- FoE Australia submissions and briefing papers and the new report Yellow Cake Country: Australias Uranium Industry (PDF 3.7mb)