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  • Govt hypocritical over coal

    7news national news: “Govt hypocritical over coal: Greens Date: 11/08/05 The Australian Greens have accused Environment Minister Ian Campbell of hypocrisy over his support for two new coal mines. Senator Campbell’s department, in a submission to a green group’s Queensland Federal Court challenge to the coal mines, has disputed that burning coal leads to global-warming…

  • The Australian: Coalition ‘all at sea’ on climate [August 12, 2005]

    The Australian: Coalition ‘all at sea’ on climate [August 12, 2005]: “Coalition ‘all at sea’ on climate THE Howard Government has been accused of displaying a ‘mass of contradictions’ on climate change, warning of the dangers it posed one week and denying its existence the next.”

  • Campbell stance stuns environmentalists

    Federal Environment Minister Ian Campbell has stunned conservationists by denying that burning coal causes greenhouse gas emissions. The denial was made in a submission by Senator Campbell to a Federal Court challenge by a Queensland environmental group. Wildlife Whitsunday went to court seeking environmental impact assessments on two coal mines, saying burning coal produces gas…

  • Gippsland, Thursday, August 11, 2005:* Greenpeace is today taking on the developed world’s most greenhouse-polluting power plant, Hazelwood power station in the Latrobe Valley, as extreme weather conditions batter Victoria. Greenpeace activists, this morning occupied a loader in the brown coal pit at Hazelwood and awarded the plant ‘1st prize’ as the developed world’s most…

  • Myself and Sam being released by police