This week we've learned that tech company Siemens is considering a dirty deal with Adani.
Adani needs a company to install signalling on the 200km railway it will use to transport coal to the coast. Only a few companies in Australia can do this work – and all except Siemens have ruled it out!
Call any (or all!) of these Siemens offices and ask them to leave a message for Jeff Connolly (CEO Siemens Australia & Pacific) and Raphaelle Guerineau (CEO Siemens Mobility Australia & New Zealand). Ask them to rule out working on the climate-wrecking project.
Report back on your call so we can count our impact.
1. Siemens Australia Head Office – (03) 9721 2000
2. Siemens Mobility Melbourne Office – (03) 9616 9000
3. Siemens Corporate Enquiries – 137 222
Calling tips
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Be friendly and polite! Our concern is with Siemens' decision to work with Adani, not its employees.
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These calls don't have to be long – the sheer number of calls is what will have an impact, so feel free to make it quick so you can get through as many as you can!
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You may be asked to direct your message to their website – you can politely decline that, and leave your message with the staff member you are speaking to.
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Ask directly for Siemens to rule out work on Adani's coal mine and rail project. Climate damage is here, now – we must end digging and burning coal.
Talking points
Remember, you don't need to be an expert on climate damage or anything else! You have a right to make this call and share your concerns about Siemens supporting a climate-wrecking project. Here are some talking points to help your call:
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Share your support for Siemens committing to the Paris Agreement to keep global temperature rise well below 2°C and pursue efforts to limit it to 1.5°C. Remind Siemens that helping Adani dig up and export coal for burning is incompatible with the Paris Agreement.
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Mention that burning coal is the biggest cause of climate damage – and the Adani mine would open the Galilee Basin to one of the biggest expansions of coal mining on planet Earth.
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Suggest that by backing clean energy and refusing to work on dangerous projects like coal mines, companies like Siemens can provide solutions to the climate crisis – not be part of the problem.
Latest Supporters
Receptionist was polite and said my call would be registered. I asked if I could leave my name and she took it but it wasn’t clear to me that she recorded it.
I asked to leave a message and was told it would be put on the list with the other calls and emails.
Rang head office. Got through quickly, was very easy.
Spoke to 2 receptionist who were very polite, left a voice message on the 3rd one expressing me concerns about Siemens getting into bed with Adani
Good. Called HO and receptionist was polite. Took my name and said it would be passed on to Jeff
They just said they will pass on the message. Didn’t sound very likely that they would be going to do this🤦♀️😢
I spoke with the receptionist at Siemens Mobility Melbourne informing her I was an MFB professional firefighter of 33 years who turned out to the Black Saturday tragedy and didn’t want to see bushfire seasons become longer with more frequent and intense bushfires etc..She seemed deeply moved stating that she respected everyones role in society and that she had to leave the conversation there because she was becoming emotional.
Mobility office would not take a message, just my details. She sounded a bit overwhelmed I think! I was polite! :)
After a wait I just got the opportunity to leave a message in which I stressed the importance of Siemens being a responsible corporation by refusing to support Adani’s coal mine and rail infrastructure at this critical moment. We have a climate emergency and coal mining has to stop
Polite receptionist: took my name and assured me that my message would be passed to the CEO and yes, they had had many calls this morning.
They said they would register my call, and hung up.
I was told my msg would be passed on to ceo
HO very polite….said they’d pass message on
Mobility angry and hung up on me
Help desk said she was inundated with calls but would register my call
The lady was polite, however hung up on me before I could get the gist of my complaint out.
She said she would “make a note that” I called, “thank you” and hung up.
Good, one of the phone calls they took my details, the other one they just said they would register my call
Spoke to lady she was polite said the message would be passed on to the CEO
Melbourne Office – The receptionist was great … she took my name and said that my call had been logged and that it would be passed on to the CEO “along with the other phone messages and emails”!
Ann Long
Polite receptionist said she would pass my comment on to CEO Jeff Connolly. I said – I asked Siemens NOT to supply ADANI coal mine with services. I offered my name but she said – "no that’s fine, that’s fine.
I will definitely avoid buying any Siemens product
The receptionist was polite. I asked her to Please please please do not assist Adani to wreck our climate, worsening the fires and toxic smoke and sucking billions of litres of water from the rivers and ground for the next 70 years. She thanked me for my call
Head Office – spoke to a live operator.
Melb. Office – only option was a recorded message
Customer care – sent an email to:
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