Note to PM: clean coal doesn’t exist

The Australian Conservation Foundation and Mackay Conservation Group are considering their next move after the Queensland Land Court today rejected the groups’ challenge to the approval of Whitehaven Coal’s Winchester South coal mine.

A newly released letter by the former chair of WA’s Environmental Protection Authority contains explosive warnings Woodside’s Browse gas project risks ‘significant, serious and irreversible’ consequences to the environment.

New analysis suggests A$40.6bn or 83% of the total contract value of Woodside’s Browse climate-damaging gas project will likely go to companies headquartered overseas.

ACF has welcomed the first ever environment protection order issued by the new national EPA to halt deforestation on a north Queensland cattle property due to its likely impact on the Great Barrier Reef.

Australian banks continue to bankroll forest destruction that is cutting into threatened species habitat, increasing the severity of climate impacts and weakening the agricultural sector.

The contradiction between the Australian government’s solid performance on domestic renewables and its continued support for expanded coal and gas exports will be in the spotlight at this week’s pre-COP climate meeting in Fiji.

To credibly lead global climate negotiations next month, the Albanese government must reject this massive new Hunter Valley coal mine. 

The Coalition has basically declared it has no climate policy. Its eight energy priorities, announced today, include no plan to provide clean, cheaper, reliable energy – in fact, they contain no plan to produce electricity at all.

Calls for the federal government to urgently fund Australia’s first national platypus survey as new research reveals a decline in the iconic species.  

An ACF investigation has detected 150 cases of deforestation with the majority linked to beef production. 

Above average temperatures, out-of-control bushfires in Queensland and NSW and a looming monster El Nino send a dire warning to the federal government to stop approving new coal and gas with Australians on the frontline of the climate crisis. 

The Northern Territory government wants to use fracked gas from the Beetaloo Basin to power energy-hungry data centres, a move that will ignite a climate bomb and put artesian water at risk.

The environmental standards released today do not deliver the strong nature protection the Albanese government promised with its reform of the national environment law