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Wildlife and Traditional Owners represented in landmark legal challenge

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.

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Vimy protests 'false' report

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. 

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Nuclear News Feb 2019

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. 

 

 

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Pollution from one Chevron LNG plant will cancel out Morrison's taxpayer funded climate plan

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.

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Plan for 5 million hectares of new conservation areas welcomed by community

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.

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Hunter Valley coal ruling sets precedent for fracking and fossil fuel projects in WA

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.

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OECD Review highlights need for action on pollution from WA gas processing

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.

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December 2018

On the last day of 2018, we would like to thank you for everything you've worked for this year. Thank you for believing in a better world, and for donating and taking action to help make it a reality.

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October 2018

In October, our community got active around two major climate change issues - gas fracking and pollution from liquefied natural gas (LNG).

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Change in Energy Minister could send bad signal

In the past, it has been considered normal to combine the Ministerial portfolio of Energy with the separate portfolio of Mines and Petroleum, giving both responsibilities to the single Minster - at least here in Western Australia.

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