Independent analysis from RepuTex Energy has revealed that around 4,000 new jobs would be created in Western Australia’s land management, renewable energy, and other industries if the state government reinstated and strengthened conditions requiring WA’s largest polluters to offset greenhouse gas emissions.

Conservation groups have welcomed a new policy on climate change released today by the WA Environmental Protection Authority (EPA), saying it will deliver very significant jobs and environmental benefits.

On Tuesday 6 March 2019, the Kalgoorlie Miner reported, Traditional Owners, hope for a uranium mine u-turn. 

A group of Traditional Owners are crossing their fingers a Supreme Court of Appeals decision will go their way and prevent a project that would see the State's first uranium mine opened in the northern Goldfields. 

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The Conservation Council of Western Australia (CCWA) and three Tjiwarl Traditional Owners have continued their landmark legal bid to prevent the extinction of multiple species and protect Aboriginal lands from uranium mining at Yeelirrie, with a hearing in the WA Court of Appeal today.

In case you didn’t see the article below are the details that effectively and continually instill the risk and denial associated with the proposed Mulga Rock uranium project. 

We are so excited for our first ever nuclear news now being available through this blog and on social media! Nuclear News is a weekly newsletter of events and actions in WA of our nuclear free campaign and news updates from all over the world. 

One of Australia’s peak environment groups has labeled the Morrison Government’s climate plan an outrageous exercise in making taxpayers clean up rising pollution from the fossil fuel industry, revealing that emissions from just one of Chevron’s LNG plants would cancel out any reductions achieved under the proposal.

New Government priorities contain strong environmental focus

Western Australia’s peak environment group has strongly welcomed the inclusion of new and visionary conservation targets, as well as waste management and recycling goals, as part of the McGowan Government’s 12 priorities announced this morning.

Western Australia’s leading environment group, the Conservation Council of WA (CCWA), has hailed the decision handed down today by a NSW court to reject a coal mine in the Hunter Valley on climate change grounds as a landmark win for the environment, saying that the ruling sets a legal precedent for how fossil fuel projects should be assessed in Western Australia.

A newly-released OECD Review of Australia’s Environmental Performance has singled out WA’s growing LNG industry as a primary driver of Australia’s rising carbon pollution, noting that the ‘rapid increase in emissions’ from this sector has offset savings made elsewhere in Australia’s electricity sector, due to the closure of coal-fired power stations.