@sandygw.bsky.social
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The Liberals said they’d approve the North West Shelf within 30 days.
Labor is on track to do it even faster.
I’m calling on the incoming Minister Murray Watt to stand up to the gas corporations and reject this dangerous climate wrecking project.
Labor is on track to do it even faster.
I’m calling on the incoming Minister Murray Watt to stand up to the gas corporations and reject this dangerous climate wrecking project.
May 23, 2025 at 2:38 AM
The Liberals said they’d approve the North West Shelf within 30 days.
Labor is on track to do it even faster.
I’m calling on the incoming Minister Murray Watt to stand up to the gas corporations and reject this dangerous climate wrecking project.
Labor is on track to do it even faster.
I’m calling on the incoming Minister Murray Watt to stand up to the gas corporations and reject this dangerous climate wrecking project.
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This decision was also made without consulting the two Indigenous groups whose land hosts the facility. Watt flew in and flew out without meeting with them.
Murray Watt knocks back objections to Woodside’s North West Shelf extension and clears way for final decision
Murray Watt knocks back objections to Woodside’s North West Shelf extension and clears way for final decision
Environment minister due to decide on controversial plan by end of the month in one of his first major challenges in new portfolio
The environment minister, Murray Watt, has knocked back two last-minute objections to Woodside’s North West Shelf extension, clearing the way for a final decision on the controversial development.
Greenpeace and the Conservation Council of Western Australia were among groups opposing the expansion who were denied reconsideration related to the project, communicated to them via Watt’s department of climate change, energy, the environment and water on Thursday. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
May 22, 2025 at 7:30 AM
This decision was also made without consulting the two Indigenous groups whose land hosts the facility. Watt flew in and flew out without meeting with them.
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"If this was somewhere else in the world, there would be a national outcry.
"The pollutants that are coming out of those Woodside stacks are actively degrading the rock art surfaces.
"It's incontestable."
🎙️Professor of Archaeology Benjamin Smith
#savemurujuga #auspol
"The pollutants that are coming out of those Woodside stacks are actively degrading the rock art surfaces.
"It's incontestable."
🎙️Professor of Archaeology Benjamin Smith
#savemurujuga #auspol
May 20, 2025 at 4:59 AM
"If this was somewhere else in the world, there would be a national outcry.
"The pollutants that are coming out of those Woodside stacks are actively degrading the rock art surfaces.
"It's incontestable."
🎙️Professor of Archaeology Benjamin Smith
#savemurujuga #auspol
"The pollutants that are coming out of those Woodside stacks are actively degrading the rock art surfaces.
"It's incontestable."
🎙️Professor of Archaeology Benjamin Smith
#savemurujuga #auspol
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Probably worth a bit more attention than it is receiving.
“With the ongoing bleaching it’s almost overwhelming the capacity of people to do the monitoring they need to do...that this most recent, global-scale coral bleaching event is still ongoing takes the world’s reefs into uncharted waters."
“With the ongoing bleaching it’s almost overwhelming the capacity of people to do the monitoring they need to do...that this most recent, global-scale coral bleaching event is still ongoing takes the world’s reefs into uncharted waters."
More than 80% of the world’s reefs hit by bleaching after worst global event on record
An ashen pallor and an eerie stillness all that remains where there should be fluttering fish and vibrant colours in the reefscape, one conservationist says
www.theguardian.com
April 24, 2025 at 3:36 AM
Probably worth a bit more attention than it is receiving.
“With the ongoing bleaching it’s almost overwhelming the capacity of people to do the monitoring they need to do...that this most recent, global-scale coral bleaching event is still ongoing takes the world’s reefs into uncharted waters."
“With the ongoing bleaching it’s almost overwhelming the capacity of people to do the monitoring they need to do...that this most recent, global-scale coral bleaching event is still ongoing takes the world’s reefs into uncharted waters."
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If you live in Sydney this is coming to a tap near you.
www.nature.org.au/centennial_c...
www.nature.org.au/centennial_c...
Centennial Coal’s plan to dump toxic mine water in Sydney drinking water catchment given tick by state’s planning umpire
For over 65 years the Nature Conservation Council has been the voice for nature in NSW. We advocate and campaign to protect nature and for a safe climate.
www.nature.org.au
March 31, 2025 at 6:40 AM
If you live in Sydney this is coming to a tap near you.
www.nature.org.au/centennial_c...
www.nature.org.au/centennial_c...
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The salmon industry has finally owned up and admitted that there are 60 salmon farming jobs on Tasmania's west coast, not 400, as has been often claimed.
Story in the ABC:
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03...
Story in the ABC:
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03...
Clarion call for PM to ditch plans to protect Tasmanian salmon
As the Tasmanian salmon industry battles to control the fallout from dead fish washing up on local beaches and revelations the state's environmental watchdog is clueless as to how many fish have died,...
www.abc.net.au
March 5, 2025 at 2:42 AM
The salmon industry has finally owned up and admitted that there are 60 salmon farming jobs on Tasmania's west coast, not 400, as has been often claimed.
Story in the ABC:
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03...
Story in the ABC:
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03...
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Ok everyone, to support my amazing wife @scidocmartin.bsky.social, and all affected by breast cancer, I'm going to do 174 squats each day for every day of March.
If you can donate or share my page that'd be awesome, thanks! fundraise.nbcf.org.au/fundraisers/...
If you can donate or share my page that'd be awesome, thanks! fundraise.nbcf.org.au/fundraisers/...
Support my 5394 squat challenge for breast cancer – it starts TODAY!
I am taking on the 58 Squat Challenge this month to raise vital funds for breast cancer research. Please support me!
fundraise.nbcf.org.au
March 1, 2025 at 4:53 AM
Ok everyone, to support my amazing wife @scidocmartin.bsky.social, and all affected by breast cancer, I'm going to do 174 squats each day for every day of March.
If you can donate or share my page that'd be awesome, thanks! fundraise.nbcf.org.au/fundraisers/...
If you can donate or share my page that'd be awesome, thanks! fundraise.nbcf.org.au/fundraisers/...
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What lives in this forest that is planned for destruction?
🌳 471 plant species
🦜130 bird species
🐭 80 non-avian vertebrates
🐨 3-6 koalas (Endangered)
Qld has >1000 species threatened w/ extinction. Let’s not push them closer to the edge, & instead follow 30 by 30 agreements (30% land saved by 2030)
🌳 471 plant species
🦜130 bird species
🐭 80 non-avian vertebrates
🐨 3-6 koalas (Endangered)
Qld has >1000 species threatened w/ extinction. Let’s not push them closer to the edge, & instead follow 30 by 30 agreements (30% land saved by 2030)
167 hectares of remnant forest in SE Qld is on the chopping block, set for destruction. Here, I provide expert comment on the short-sided, backwards plan. Please add your name to the petition (bottom of the article) if you agree, and repost this.
www.ipswichtribune.com.au/ipswich/1530...
www.ipswichtribune.com.au/ipswich/1530...
15,300 signatures as forest fight ramps up
CONSERVATION leaders are backing growing numbers of Ipswich residents demanding an 1,800 house Springfield development is stopped.
www.ipswichtribune.com.au
January 22, 2025 at 6:23 AM
What lives in this forest that is planned for destruction?
🌳 471 plant species
🦜130 bird species
🐭 80 non-avian vertebrates
🐨 3-6 koalas (Endangered)
Qld has >1000 species threatened w/ extinction. Let’s not push them closer to the edge, & instead follow 30 by 30 agreements (30% land saved by 2030)
🌳 471 plant species
🦜130 bird species
🐭 80 non-avian vertebrates
🐨 3-6 koalas (Endangered)
Qld has >1000 species threatened w/ extinction. Let’s not push them closer to the edge, & instead follow 30 by 30 agreements (30% land saved by 2030)
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Latest in a series of scandals. If this government owned logging company was publicy listed, it would be shut down and the directors would resign or be banned. www.smh.com.au/environment/...
‘Fiasco’: State government loggers caught out exaggerating wood harvest
Forestry Corporation of NSW has blamed a “data extraction error” for the massive discrepancies in the biomaterial reports.
www.smh.com.au
February 6, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Latest in a series of scandals. If this government owned logging company was publicy listed, it would be shut down and the directors would resign or be banned. www.smh.com.au/environment/...
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95 top artists, writers and musicians are calling on Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek to stop the destruction of one of world’s most important artworks and cultural heritage sites, the Murujuga petroglyphs in WA. @markogge.bsky.social australiainstitute.org.au/post/95-top-...
95 top Australian and international artists unite to stop the destruction of one the world’s greatest artworks
Many of Australia’s most renowned artists, writers and musicians are calling on Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek to stop the destruction of one of world’s most important artworks and cultural heri...
australiainstitute.org.au
February 4, 2025 at 11:58 PM
95 top artists, writers and musicians are calling on Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek to stop the destruction of one of world’s most important artworks and cultural heritage sites, the Murujuga petroglyphs in WA. @markogge.bsky.social australiainstitute.org.au/post/95-top-...
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Logging in the proposed Great Koala National Park is about to recommence.
At NSW Forestry Corporation HQ 👵’s👂that 10% of the proposed Koala Park has been logged and the size of the proposed park is now in question.
Demand your NSW MP deliver the GKNP in full 👉 nswforests.org/call-your-mp/
At NSW Forestry Corporation HQ 👵’s👂that 10% of the proposed Koala Park has been logged and the size of the proposed park is now in question.
Demand your NSW MP deliver the GKNP in full 👉 nswforests.org/call-your-mp/
January 13, 2025 at 3:46 AM
Logging in the proposed Great Koala National Park is about to recommence.
At NSW Forestry Corporation HQ 👵’s👂that 10% of the proposed Koala Park has been logged and the size of the proposed park is now in question.
Demand your NSW MP deliver the GKNP in full 👉 nswforests.org/call-your-mp/
At NSW Forestry Corporation HQ 👵’s👂that 10% of the proposed Koala Park has been logged and the size of the proposed park is now in question.
Demand your NSW MP deliver the GKNP in full 👉 nswforests.org/call-your-mp/