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War games threaten the GBR and Coral Sea communties: FoE report released
Friends of the Earth Brisbane have released our response on the AECOM Public Environment Report for Excercise Talisman Sabre 2011, the US-Australian joint war games. TS11 is the biggest military...
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Queensland Government negligent as mines release toxins into flood waters
p { margin-bottom: 0.21cm; }Flooded mine sites will be releasing huge amounts of heavy metals into the flood waters and much of this will be stored in sediment and pile up behind weirs in catchments...
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April 2011 News and Events ebulletin
So much is happening folks. Friends of the Earth is taking Xstrata mining company to court, our work to protect the environment from Coal Seam Gas expansion is always busy - with the Tara festival...
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Peace and green advocates gear up for action as US war games begin
Peace and green campaigners will be increasing their activity in the Rockhampton region this week in opposition to Joint US – AUS military exercises, Exercise Talisman Sabre, which officially begins...
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QR National Wiggins deal cements one track economy, damages environment
Media Release 6 September 2011 – For Immediate ReleaseQR National Wiggins deal cements one track economy, damages environmentQueensland’s internationally famed coast line is under siege with the QR...
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Protesters halt dredging in Gladstone Harbour.
Protesters halted dredging in Gladstone harbour today, when Friends of the Earth campaigner Derec Davies locked on to a Gladstone port corporation dredge.Mr Davies was part of a protest organised by...
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Strategic Environmental Assessment and Gladstone Harbour - Terms of Reference...
Gladstone Harbour and surrounding waterways of the Fitzroy River delta are set to undergo massive development to accommodate the Surat Basin and lower Bowen Basin's new coal and CSG LNG (Coal Seam Gas...
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Clive Palmer’s car swamped by angry landowners as Nature Refuge stands to fall
Mining magnate Clive Palmer avoided being mobbed today by angry landowners over the proposed Waratah Coal’s Galilee Coal (aka China First) mine. The mine will see total destruction of a Queensland...
View ArticleImages - FoE Clive Palmer’s car swamped by angry landowners Yeppoon Nov 2011
Images for Yeppoon Event x 3 attached belowVideo footage available from Channel 7 and Win 9 in Rockhampton. read more
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Community Rights, Corporate Wrongs: new report from FoEI
Friends of the Earth International promotes the respect and enforcement of community rights as a means to resist corporate power and create social change. Our member groups around the world are working...
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Environmental protest given the green light in Queensland
Today in the Brisbane magistrates court, Magistrate Jim Herlihy gave the green light to environmental protestors in Queensland to take action to protect the environment from coal and coal seam gas...
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Local community builds fight against coal port development in the Fitzroy...
Australia's Great Barrier Reef and the endangered Snubfin Dolphin is at risk from coal port development in the Fitzroy River Delta near Rockhampton. Local community leader Ginny Gerlach will hold a...
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Sign to protect National Environment Laws
It's more important than ever to protect the effectiveness of national legislation on the environment with a conservative state government going ahead full steam on mining and development. Show your...
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NGOs release alternative report to Uranium Implementation Committee
Friends of the earth, in conjunction with the Australian Conservation Foundation, Australian Manufacturing Workers Union, Electrical Trades Union, North Queensland Conservation Council, Queensland...
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World Oceans Day 2013: Ocean changes illustrate stark reality of climate change
Outlining the reality With two-thirds of our planet covered by oceans, and living as we do in a land “girt by sea”, Friends of the Earth Australia sees this year’s World Oceans Day (8th June), focusing...
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US bases in Australia: the social and environmental risks
Today Friends of the Earth release a damning report of the track record of military uses of the environment and the risks US bases and exercises pose to our natural heritage. The report US Bases in...
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