Submitted by Site Admin on Mon, 23/04/2001 - 22:24
April 23, 2001
Protests against the Free Trade Area of the Americas negotiations spread from 'fortress' Quebec City, Canada, to the Canadian Consulate in Melbourne today.
Submitted by Site Admin on Thu, 12/04/2001 - 21:57
April 12, 2001
GUNDJEHMI ABORIGINAL CORPORATION MEDIA ALERT
Rio's stopgap Jabiluka plans a cop out: traditional owners
The Traditional Owners of the Jabiluka uranium mine area, the Mirrar People, have today criticised mining giant Rio Tinto for refusing to commit to neither sell nor develop the controversial Jabiluka mine.
Submitted by Site Admin on Tue, 03/04/2001 - 21:41
April 3, 2001
As the two worst greenhouse gas polluters prepare to white-out their signatures from the Kyoto Protocol, developing countries are being painted as the real threat to global warming.
Submitted by Site Admin on Wed, 28/03/2001 - 21:37
Wednesday March 28, 2001
Statement of Dr. Brent Blackwelder, President, Friends of the Earth Press Conference.
The President of the United States believes he has seen the enemy: every man, woman and child who cares about protecting the environment we depend upon for our survival. A scant three months into his new administration, and President Bush's real agenda is well underway - an all out war on public health, safety and the environment on behalf of industries that contributed to his campaign.
Submitted by Site Admin on Wed, 28/03/2001 - 21:31
Wednesday, 28 March 2001
The world is tottering on the brink of climate disaster today, as the White House confirrned that President Bush has decided to rat on the 1997 Kyoto Treaty. At Kyoto, the world's developed countries agreed for the first time to cut emissions of climate changing gases. White House officials have taken legal advice on how to pull out of the Treaty, which the US signed but which remains unratified by the Senate.
Submitted by Site Admin on Fri, 23/03/2001 - 22:26
March 23, 2001
Key environment groups have today welcomed news of increased doubts over the future of the Jabiluka uranium project inside Kakadu National Park. The news, made in an address to the Securities Institute by Rio Tinto CEO Leigh Clifford, comes on the third anniversary of the start of the Jabiluka protest blockade which involved thousands of people and saw hundreds of arrests.
Submitted by Site Admin on Sat, 03/03/2001 - 22:19
March 3, 2001
Joint Press Release
Friends of the Earth Australia
Anti-Bases Campaign
Friends of the Earth Australia and the Anti-Bases Campaign have welcomed a resolution passed by the Senate yesterday while condemning comments made at the same time by Alexander Downer that indicate the Howard government may be hardening its attitude to the 1972 ABM (Anti-Ballistic Missile) treaty, to allow the development of the controversial National Missile Defence program.
Submitted by Site Admin on Fri, 02/03/2001 - 22:05
March 2, 2001
National environment group Friends of the Earth Australia has called for uranium miner Southern Cross Resources to halt plans to dispose of radioactive waste into groundwater at the Honeymoon uranium site near Broken Hill. Federal Environment Minister Robert Hill announced today the terms of reference for further evaluation of groundwater and direct disposal of radioactive wastes. Southern Cross has denied the public release of existing data from two years of trial mining at the site near Broken Hill.
