Saturday 17 November 2018 marked 10 years since former Premier Colin Barnett lifted the ban on uranium mining in the State.  Barnett promised 10 mines by 2020 and today we can say proudly that there are no operating uranium mines in WA, and not one even close to operating.  It is thanks to the strong community opposition across the state that continually contests and challenges all uranium proposals, the strategic campaign organising and the slow and steady decline of the global nuclear industry.

A historic alliance has seen the state’s peak environment group join forces with four wheel drive associations at the Perth 4WD and Adventure Show this weekend.

Some of Australia’s most prominent voices including Paul Kelly, Jimmy Barnes, John Butler, Peter Garrett, Missy Higgins, Tim Winton, Fiona Stanley, Janet Holmes a Court, Carmen Lawrence and Peter Newman have united in a call to Premier Mark McGowan to protect the Kimberley from the controversial practice of gas fracking.

The Conservation Council of WA (CCWA) has strongly welcomed the announcement from the McGowan Government that part of the Roe 8 highway reserve through the Beeliar Wetlands will be rezoned from ‘Road Reserve’ to ‘Parks and Recreation’ under the Metropolitan Regional Planning Scheme (MRS).

Western Australia’s peak environment group has congratulated Energy Minister Ben Wyatt, Western Power, and Synergy on the Powerbank Battery Trial that will allow households to access remote battery storage for excess energy generated by solar panels.

The state’s peak environment group has renewed its call for WA’s biggest polluter to comply with Ministerial Conditions on its giant Gorgon LNG processing facility, saying that its refusal to ‘offset’ its carbon pollution was harming the environment and costing jobs in clean industries.

Environment groups have renewed their call for protection of South West native forests to generate carbon credits and protect wildlife – a move which independent research suggests would be more profitable than the current native forest logging industry.

More than fifty of Australia’s top scientists and experts have delivered an open letter to the WA Government today, calling for a permanent ban on gas fracking to prevent a massive increase in carbon pollution, and to avoid dangerous climate change.

Western Australia’s peak conservation organisation has renewed its call on the McGowan Government to implement its election commitment to “strengthen the Biodiversity Conservation Act” to prevent the extinction of some of WA’s most iconic species.

Environment groups have renewed calls for an urgent transition of the South West forest industry, as set out by the Forests For Life plan to protect wildlife habitat and timber industry jobs, and to prevent the further destruction of ancient forests for low value woodchips and firewood.