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
My call was answered politely and I was told my message would be passed on to the CEO!
Good , nice lady noted my complaint :)
Was on hold for about 3 min, lady who answered my call was polite (as was I) took my name.
I called all the numbers. Two of them were a bit shirty and told me to direct my complaint to the website. I told them people will keep calling these numbers until they do something. Keep up the pressure….
No coal support please!!!
A female employee listened politely. Thanked me for calling and said she would add my concerns to her list.
Ingrid Srubjan: took me a while to get through so hoping many others are calling. Left message for Jeff Connolly. Lovely polite assistant on other end.
PLEASE, SEIMENS… IF YOU DON"T GO AHEAD WITH ADANI. YOU WILL SAVE SO MUCH FOR OUR COUNTRY> our Great Barrier Reef, Our Great Australian Water Basin, The Coral Sea, So much more. Please jin those who have rejected ADANI , SAY NO.xo
Don’t support Adani please!
Julie Blessing – Siemens you say you recognise it is a climate emergency, so why is it ok to support the ADANI coal mine? Pull out your support of ADANI Siemens!!
Phoned the Head Office. Switchboard operator polite and said would pass message on. Also said they had received many calls. Phoned Corporate Enqs – same and operator said she appreciated my concern over climate change.
Lady at head office, a bit flustered said the names would be passed on for the decision on Friday, but didn’t ask my name or details.
Called Headoffice – I was told that my phone call could not be passed on to anybody at this stage they’re keeping a tally. I could not leave my contact details to receive a call back
Rang Siemens office and got a recorded message that their reception is not available and to leave a message, which I did.
I also rang their Qld office on 0733328300 and spoke to a polite lady who said someone would ring me back.
She sounded pretty stressed and talked over me to tell me to direct my concerns through the website. She then hung up on me when I was mid-sentence.
The woman I spoke to just wanted to add my name to the list. I asked if I could add a little message which she said yes to and I spoke about the rising sea levels of the pacific nations and that the prime minister of PNG has begged Australia to stop mining coal and some other things too. It was obvious she wasn’t writing my message down, but she was nice enough. I also asked that Siemens’s see the Earth as a living being and told her how humans and the earth are made up of the same percent of water. She didn’t want my last name.
I’ll call back later. Thanks everyone! xx
Immoral and wrong for Siemens to be involved in any way with the Adani obscenity. Burning coal is the biggest contributor to the climate crisis.
Rang last week 137222 said they would call back they didn’t rang today now not calling back but logging lots of calls
Very polite lady. My message will be past on with the others as a counting exercise. She didnt ask for my name
rang all 3 nos… just spoke to receptionists
going to email thru their website
Call well received by a friendly telephonist who advised me they are instructed not to put calls through but record the number of protest calls they receive. So the more calls the better!
It was all amicable. I gave my name, expressed my concerns and was told it would be passed on to the CEO.
Note that the Head office Number and the Corporate enquiries number get you through to the same person, so no point in calling both. They are making a list of callers and passing this on to head office, they say. Took my name but who knows if these names are actually recorded and delivered ?? Bloody hope so!!
They tried dodging the issue but said they would forward a message to the correct department, they wouldn’t put me through.