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Interesting take... in the Federal Court, Woodside argues that far from exerting influence and dominance, it had to wrangle hard with federal authorities to get its NW Shelf gas project extended. 🧐 #auspol thewest.com.au/business/ene...
Why ACF is taking Environment Minister Murray Watt to court over his approval of Woodside's North West Shelf gas hub out to 2070.
In the West Australian: Conservationists argue federal authorities had “apprehended bias” favouring Woodside when a decades-long extension of the North West Shelf gas project was approved. #auspol thewest.com.au/business/ene...
These posters are out and about in Melbourne, Perth and Fremantle.
This is significant. Australia is the world’s #1 exporter of met coal for steelmaking. We can replace dirty, climate-damaging met coal exports with renewable-fired green steel exports, creating jobs at home while helping Japan and Sth Korea to decarbonise. www.newcastleherald.com.au/story/930561...
The NT govt sat on a warning in 2024 by experts from the Territory’s largest hospital that LNG facilities around Darwin were producing toxic pollution linked to fatal diseases that put thousands of the city’s most vulnerable residents at risk. www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/nt-go...
Let kids be kids. Australian children should be able to learn, play and grow without companies Glencore, Woodside and Santos misusing educational spaces to build trust and social licence. #auspol www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Destruction of koala habitat linked to ANZ. “There is growing pressure on banks to dissociate themselves from businesses involved in deforestation.” @hugepossum.bsky.social in story in today's AFR.
The Great Barrier Reef is being smashed by almost 400,000 dump trucks-worth of mud each year, smothering coral and choking seagrass meadows, a scathing new report has found. www.news.com.au/technology/e...
In today’s AFR. “There’s a growing sense of frustration across the environment movement that in a time of climate and extinction crisis we’re still seeing new coal and gas mines approved, and still seeing nature getting destroyed.” By @ryancropp.bsky.social www.afr.com/policy/energ... #auspol
... and congratulations to ACF Community member Dr Jonathon Howard, who received a King's Birthday Honour for significant service to tertiary education, conservation and sustainability. Well deserved!
Congratulations to our Treasurer and Board Director, Professor Terence Jeyaretnam, for receiving recognition for significant service to social justice, conservation and sustainability...
"There's no bigger threat to food security than climate change and the decline of natural systems. Improving nature's capacity to continue providing essential ecosystem services like pollination, fresh water and a stable climate is good for food security." www.theland.com.au/story/928188...
We understand this means international law, including the ICJ’s advisory opinion on states’ obligations on climate change, is relevant to the legality of Minister Watt’s decisions about the NW Shelf extension. #auspol @lisacox.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
A UN special rapporteur has been granted leave by the Federal Court to intervene in two challenges to Environment Minister Murray Watt’s approval of Woodside’s North West Shelf expansion project. Story on SMH blog. www.smh.com.au/national/aus...
Hungry Jack’s® Pty Ltd wouldn’t come to the table, so we brought the conversation to its front door. For the last two weeks, we’ve been outside of Hungry Jack’s HQ, speaking directly with staff and people walking past. (1/3)
A few photos from the rally outside Woodside's AGM in Perth today.
Sounds like a good idea to us. #auspol www.news.com.au/national/pol...
"We urge the inquiry to look at how Australia can learn from the PRRT and make any new regime tighter and less able to be gamed by the gas companies." Annika Reynolds #auspol
"Go the Dockers! But they shouldn't be sponsored by Woodside." #auspol
ACF's Annika Reynolds responds to a question at the Senate inquiry into a gas exports tax. #auspol
PM Albanese is being urged to set a new tax on gas exports by some of his favourite musicians, including King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard, Angie McMahon, Lime Cordiale and King Stingray. #auspol www.news.com.au/entertainmen...
Analysis by a leading climate scientist suggests opening up a contentious WA offshore gas field could lead to death of almost 30m coral colonies on the Great Barrier Reef due to its impact on global heating. By @lisacox.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Yancoal and Peabody’s Middlemount coal mine expansion has been given approval to clear more than 183ha of koala habitat. The project will divert a section of Roper Creek that provides an important corridor for koalas, greater gliders and other native animals. #auspol #climatechange