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Australia: Activists vow to 'up the ante'
2013-05-05 08:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mercury: ENVIRONMENTAL groups have vowed to up the ante on forest protests after the passing of the Tasmanian Forest Agreement. Groups on the outside of the tent for the peace talks, including Still Wild Still Threatened and The Huon Valley Environment Centre, said this morning they would continue to campaign against the state's forestry industry. "We are absolutely committed to continue to protest and take action for these forests," Still Wild Still Threatened spokeswoman Miranda Gibson said. "These...
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Leave It in the Ground, Climate Activists Demand
2013-04-28 21:36:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Inter Press Service: Nearly 70 percent of known reserves of oil, gas and coal must remain in the ground to avoid dangerous climate change. So why did the energy industry spend 674 billion dollars in 2012 looking for more? A moratorium on investments new fossil fuel infrastructure is the obvious thing to do about this, said Asad Rehman, head of international climate at Friends of the Earth in the UK."It's bipolar"there is a complete lack of leadership." -- UCS's Alden Meyer The United Nations is the place to get...
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Greenpeace Activists Board Ship in Protest of Australias Coal Export Boom
2013-04-24 20:08:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: At sunrise, the six activists left the Rainbow Warrior on inflatable boats and drew up alongside the MV Meister, a ship carrying thermal coal loaded at Abbot point in Queensland. Using steel ladders, they climbed the side of the ship and 18 hours later remain on the vessel. Greenpeace boarded the ship just after it left the Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area. The six activists come from five countries in the Asia Pacific region where Greenpeace is campaigning to end the age of coal: Australia,...
Greenpeace activists board Australian coal ship in reef protest
2013-04-24 08:21:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Six Greenpeace activists boarded a coal ship bound for South Korea near Australia's Great Barrier Reef on Wednesday, protesting against the expansion of the rich Australian coal industry and its impact on the World Heritage site. Environmentalists say the Great Barrier Reef, a popular tourist site worth about A$6 billion ($6.1 billion) a year to the Australia economy, is threatened by dredging, sedimentation and coal port and shipping development. UNESCO will decide in June whether the reef...
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Greenpeace activists board ship carrying Australian coal
2013-04-24 02:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Six activists from Greenpeace have boarded a coal ship leaving Australian waters in a direct action aimed at curbing coal exports. The activists, from several different countries, boarded the Korean-owned MV Meister at 7am on Wednesday. The ship is carrying thermal coal loaded from Abbot Point in Queensland. Speaking to the Guardian from on board the ship, 34-year-old Greenpeace activist Emma Giles said: "We've taken the action today because Australia is on track to almost double its coal exports...
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