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Occupation of ALP Headquarters
Tags:Tue 23 Jun 09
Around 50 people attended a climate protest at Australian Labor Party Headquarters in Sydney this morning, angry at the NSW Government’s budget decision to expand coal power in the state.
The Eraring Power Station, on Lake Macquarie south of Newcastle, is the equal largest power station in Australia, and emits around 12 million tonnes of carbon dioxide per annum. In last week's State Budget, the NSW Government allocated more than $200 million to expanding the power station. The expansion would see the capacity of Eraring increase from 2640MW to 2880MW.
Click here to watch this videoOne arrest at Labor Headquarters sit-in
Tags:Mon 22 Jun 09
Around 50 people attended a climate protest at Australian Labor Party Headquarters in Sydney this morning, angry at the NSW Government's budget decision to expand coal power in the state.
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Harnessing a Power Shift... for greenwash?
Big polluters and their supporters in government think they can continue inaction through greenwash. One of the ways they are doing this is through funding the upcoming youth climate conference, Power Shift, to be held in Sydney from July 11-13th 2009. These polluters have bought their way onto Power Shift platform and will tell hundreds of young people how we can ‘be part of stopping climate change’.
Read moreAbout Friends of the Earth Sydney
Friends of the Earth Sydney are a community-based collective working for social and environmental justice. In 2009, we are supporting the creation of a grassroots Sydney Trade Unionists Climate Action Network, blitzing community spaces with glorious permaculture gardens, standing up against the polluting coal industry and taking action for climate justice.
We meet Tuesday nights from 6pm at 22 Enmore Road, Newtown (near Newtown train station). We welcome new members, ideas, initiatives and projects. Please get in touch and come along. Contact holly.creenaune@foe.org.au / 0417 682 541.
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