by | Apr 26, 2013 | Past Events
This week, six brave Greenpeace volunteers climbed onto a coal tanker just outside the Great Barrier Reef and stayed there for 28 hours. They did this because Australia’s coal exports are the nation’s greatest contribution to climate change and plans are...
by | Mar 20, 2013 | Ecotone Article, Past Events
By Anna McGuire, CAFNEC Coordinator CAFNEC, the Australian Conservation Foundation and Greenpeace Australia Pacific held a forum on this issue in February 2013. This forum featured Mark Ogge from the Australia Institute and Louise Mattheisson from Greenpeace. The...
by | Feb 20, 2013 | Dredging
Proposal to expand dredging operation in Trinity Inlet – issue summary September 2012 Update 2013 – Trinity inlet fact sheet 1 Cairns Port Authority proposes to: • Widen the existing outer channel (11.2km long) from 90m wide to 140m wide; • Increase the depth of...
by | Jan 25, 2013 | Past Events
6pm, at Pullman Reef Hotel Casino, Cairns Featuring Louise Mattheisson from Greenpeace and Mark Ogge from the Australia Institute. Coal mining companies are planning up to nine new coal terminals along the Great Barrier Reef coast, meaning thousands more coal ships...
by | Dec 12, 2012 | Ecotone Article
I have lived alongside the Johnstone River for forty-two years and watched the river run red every time heavy rain falls. Lately, I have noticed it needs less and less rainfall to cause the river to run red. ...
